NEWS RELEASE
CREATIVE AGING BOOKS AND IDEAS
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An author, newspaper journalist, and an academic specializing in Dickens, Katherine Ashenburg’s career has been a collection of ten-year tenures.
She was a CBC radio producer for ten years and then the Globe and Mail books editor for – you guessed it - ten years.
“Until recently, I had a ten-year attention span as far as jobs go,” Katherine says laughingly. “But what I loved about being the books editor was having a chance to have the couch in my office covered in books, along with the opportunity to make so many wonderful choices around the books that would be reviewed. We had so many more [newspaper] pages in those days which allowed us to review a greater number of books. That was a wonderful job.”
Since leaving the Globe and Mail to freelance 20 years ago, and before the writing of her first book of fiction – Sofie & Cecilia - Katherine wrote four books of non-fiction, covering a gamut of topics from travel to mourning customs to architecture.
Her book, The Mourner's Dance: What We Do When People Die, explores the traditions and rituals, the purpose and processes around the honouring and practising of grief across a diverse spectrum of religions and cultures.
This book, along with her new critically acclaimed book, Her Turn, which was released on July 27, will be explored in Creative Aging Books & Ideas Free Virtual Event on Thursday, Aug, 26, at 2 p.m.
Register for this Aug. 26 event at www.cecescott.com and get a free guide on the Rituals of Mourning in Different Cultures.
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