Join Kit Dobson and Tanis MacDonald for the Winnipeg launch of their Wolsak & Wynn books, Field Notes on Listening and Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female. Dobson and MacDonald will be joined by Aubrey Jean Hanson, reading from her book Literatures, Communities, and Learning: Conversations with Indigenous Writers (WLUP).

The launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream with live chat. The video will be available for viewing thereafter. Before arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events here at the store.

Written in brief, elegant sections, Field Notes on Listening starts at Kit Dobson’s kitchen table, a family heirloom, and wends through time and space, looking at his family’s lost farm, the slow violence of climate change, loss of habitat, the tensions of living in late-stage capitalism.

In Straggle Tanis MacDonald walks the reader down many paths, pointing out the sights, exclaiming over birds, sharing stories and asking questions about just who gets to walk freely through our cities, parks and wilderness in this wide-ranging collection of essays.

Kit Dobson lives and works in Calgary / Treaty 7 territory in southern Alberta. His previous books include Malled: Deciphering Shopping in Canada and he is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary.

Tanis MacDonald is an essayist, poet, professor and free-range literary animal. She is the host of the podcast Watershed Writers, and the author of Out of Line: Daring to Be an Artist Outside the Big City. She identifies as a bad birder, and lives near Ose’kowáhne in southwestern Ontario as a grateful guest on traditional Haudenosaunee territory.

Aubrey Jean Hanson is a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta and an Associate Professor at the University of Calgary’s Werklund School of Education. Her ancestry extends to Métis, German, Icelandic, French, and Scottish roots.