Award-winning author & CBC host Grant Lawrence Presents — Adventures in Solitude
By Contributor
What’s not to wear at a nude potluck?
CBC host and award-winning author Grant Lawrence knows.
The Nelson Library hosts a reading and slide show featuring Lawrence’s bestselling book Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound (Harbour Publishing, 2011) on Thursday, April 26th at 7:30 pm.
Grant Lawrence is a well-known voice across Canada for his CBC Radio 3 Podcastand his appearances on CBC Radio One programs such as DNTO, Spark, All Points Westand On the Coast, and fans of independent music still turn up an old song from a record by The Smugglers, Lawrence’s defunct rock band.
In 2011 Adventures in Solitude—Lawrence’s first book—took home a BC Book Prize, and was nominated for both the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fictionand the prestigious Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
Although Lawrence’s career has taken him far afield, Adventures in Solitude describes how Lawrence’s life has been shaped by the quirky place he calls home.
Lawrence’s father bought a piece of land next to West Coast BC’s Desolation Sound marine park in the 1970s, just in time to encounter the gun-toting cougar lady, left-over hippies, outlaw bikers and an assortment of other characters.
It was these early experiences, many alongside an influential hermit named Russell, which led Lawrence to a life of music and journalism.
In Adventures in Solitude, Lawrence regales us with tales of “going bush,” the tempting dilemma of finding an unguarded grow-op, and other laugh-out-loud stories from this unique place.
In addition to his radio appearances, Grant Lawrence hosts many major music events, such as the Western Canadian Music Awardsand various festivals around North America, and conducts music industry seminars on music and media related topics.
He still spends much of each summer at his cabin in the Sound.
He lives in Vancouver, BC with his wife, Canadian folk singer Jill Barber.
