Eleanor Wachtel in Conversation with Winterset Award Non-Fiction Winners Lisa Moore and Jack Whalen

When: Saturday, August 9, 8:00pm. When: Saturday August 9, 8:00 pm The Highlight of Saturday is in the evening panel with legendary interviewer Eleanor Wachtel joining BMO Winterset Non-Fiction winners Lisa Moore and Jack Whalen to dive into Invisible Prisons. Big ideas, bold stories — this one’s going to spark something special. Eleanor Wachtel loves books and their authors and has managed to gagner her vie by sharing that passion. Five books of her interviews have been published, including Random Illuminations, a collection of reflections, correspondence, and conversations with Carol Shields; Original Minds; and for the show’s twenty-fifth anniversary, The Best of Writers & Company. Last year she chaired the jury of the International Booker Prize. Jack Whalen is the son, brother, husband, and father whose story became this book. He divides his time between family homes in Oshawa, Ontario, and St.John’s, Newfoundland. Recently, he can sometimes be found crossing the country in a truck carrying a replica of the cell in which he was once imprisoned, seeking justice for those who endured solitary confinement as children. Lisa Moore is a writer of the short story collections Degrees of Nakedness, Open, and Something for Everyone. She has written the novels Alligator, February, Caught, This Is How We Love and the young adult novel Flannery. She is the co-author with Jack Whalen of the creative non-fiction book Invisible Prisons. Her novels and story collections have each been tra