About the Author
Kit Dobson
Author
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. He grew up in many places across Canada, but returned again and again to the landscapes of northern Alberta where his family members settled – and that continue to animate his thinking.
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Lit Locale: Field Notes on Listening
Luellen Lake, a remote yet accessible lake in Banff National Park, is a grand setting to enjoy Kit Dobson’s Field Notes on Listening (Wolsak & Wynn). This book of poetic, personal non-fiction essays is concerned with what it means to listen to environments in an extended ... Read more
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In Review: The Week of January 6th
Happy reading in 2020! We're back at it with ALU Read the Provinces, highlighting authors across Canada: read interviews and excerpts from their books and get 15% off our selected titles until the end of the month.
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Alberta-based author Kit Dobson joins us for this Read the Provinces interview to chat about his book Malled: Deciphering Shopping in Canada (Wolsak and Wynn), in which, through travel to sites of artistic reference, he explores how the capitalism of shopping places across ... Read more
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