The terrible childhoods of literary giants | Heather O'Neill | Walrus Talks

From Enbridge Presents The Walrus Talks Resilience at Blue Metropolis. Recorded April 13, 2016, in Montreal.
Heather O’Neill is a fiction writer and essayist whose books include the novels Lullabies for Little Criminals and The Girl Who Was Saturday Night and the short story collection Daydreams of Angels. She won the CBC Canada Reads competition and has been shortlisted twice for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her essays have appeared in the Guardian, the Globe and Mail, The New York Times Magazine, and The Walrus. Her novel The Romeo Hotel will be released in fall 2016. @lethal_heroine