Ethan Hawke joins Vancouver Writers Fest book club, March 14
The award-winning actor, screenwriter releases new novel, A Bright Ray of Darkness
Ethan Hawke. Photo by Brigitte Lacombe
The Vancouver Writers Fest Winter Book Club with Ethan Hawke takes place online on March 14 at 4 pm PST.
HERE’S A BOOK-club meeting not to be missed: Ethan Hawke is the guest at Vancouver Writers Fest’s Winter Book Club in an exclusive Canadian event for the release of A Bright Ray of Darkness.
The actor and screenwriter’s novel—his first in nearly two decades—is about a man making his Broadway debut in Henry IV after the collapse of his marriage. The fest describes the story as “searing, raw, and utterly transfixing”, “soaked in rage and sex, longing and despair”, and a love letter to the world of theatre.
Hawke is a four-time Academy Award-nominated actor, writer, and director who has appeared in Dead Poets Society, Reality Bites, Gattaca, Training Day, and Boyhood, among many other films. He made the 2014 documentary Seymour: An Introduction, based on pianist Seymour Bernstein and directed the 2018 music biopic, Blaze, inspired by the life of Blaze Foley, released by IFC Films in 2018. He has appeared on Broadway five times and in the Showtime series The Good Lord Bird, based on the National Book Award-winning novel by James McBride.
His previous novels include Ash Wednesday and The Hottest State.
Vancouver author and Can’t Lit podcast host Jen Sookfong Lee will moderate the March 14 event, which will include an audience Q&A session and is presented with VIFF, its community partner.
Lee’s books include The Conjoined (which was nominated for International Dublin Literary Award and was a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize) and The Better Mother (a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award). She teaches at the Writers’ Studio Online with Simon Fraser University.
Tickets, $40 plus service charges, include a hardcover copy of A Bright Ray of Darkness.
For more information, visit Vancouver Writers Fest.
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