The Winnipeg International Writers Festival Welcomes Hal Niedzviecki

The Winnipeg International Writers Festival is excited to feature Hal Niedzviecki at the THIN AIR 2009 festival.

Hal’s latest adult non-fiction book The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbours appears at number 12 on O Magazine’s list of 25 Books You Can’t Put Down! (http://www.oprah.com/slidepopup/oprahsbookclub/pastselections/200907-omag-summer-reading-list).

In Winnipeg he will be talking to students about his teenage-friendly work, the award winning The Big Book of Pop Culture. In it he uses upbeat, spirited writing to discuss independent/alternative action and how students can understand and create pop culture themselves.

Hal’s expertise and focus on the new culture being created by electronic social media raises interesting questions about values and privacy itself.

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