Canadian Fiction

Intuitive Surrender: Interview in Hamilton Review of Books Latest Issue

I’m very grateful to Kathryn Walsh Kuitenbrouwer for her incisive, insightful questions in this interview about With My Back to the World for Hamilton Review of Books.

Intuitive Surrender

KATHRYN WALSH KUITENBROUWER INTERVIEWS SALLY COOPER

Sally Cooper’s third novel, With My Back to the World, published by Wolsak &Wynn, was released in spring 2019. She is the author of the story collection Smells Like Heaven (ARP Books, 2017) as well as two acclaimed novels. Sally is a senior editor with Hamilton Review of Books.

Sally Cooper. With My Back to the World. James Street North Books. $22.00, 376 pp., ISBN: 9781928088806

Kathryn Walsh Kuitenbrouwer: Sally, thank you for the opportunity to read and immerse in your compelling new novel, With My Back to the World. I have a lot of questions about the subject matter and the impulses that drew you to it. My first one is about art-making and motherhood. I loved reading about Agnes Martin’s art—and Rudie’s documentary filmmaking—processes.  Is there, do you think, an analogy to be made between the urgency of art-making for Martin and the willful desire toward motherhood for Rudie?

SC: I love this first question as it touches the heart of what’s driving these two women and what draws Rudie to Agnes.

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With My Back to the World has launched!

With My Back to the World has launched!

What a week! Two packed-to-the gills events in Toronto and Hamilton and With My Back to the World is well and truly launched. It was a thrill to hold and read from the novel for the first time and with such a strong, exciting group of women writers. The love in the room was real! I’m filled with gratitude for family and friends and writer peeps who came out and for Noelle Allen and all at Wolsak & Wynn for making this novel a reality. . #tooexcitedtotakepictures

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