Rewind: Reframing Community with Ian Williams

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This week, in celebration of Black History Month, we are coming back to one of our favourite interviews with poet, essayist, and novelist Ian Williams, whose brain we really connected with. His book of essays, Disorientation: Being Black in the World, is thought-provoking and beautiful — all the things a book of essays should be.
Ian Williams is the author of six books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. His latest book, Disorientation, considers the impact of racial encounters on ordinary people. His novel Reproduction won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and was published in Canada, the US, the UK, and Italy. His poetry collection Word Problems converts the ethical and political issues of our time into math and grammar problems. It won the Raymond Souster award.
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We love hearing from our listeners! Leave us a voice message, write to the show email, or send us a DM on any of our socials.
If our conversations support you in your own reframing practice, please consider a donation on our Patreon, where you can also hear bonus episodes, or tipping us on Ko-fi. Subscribe to the Reframeables Newsletter. Follow us on TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube too.

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1. This week's episode (00:00:00)

2. Introducing Ian Williams (00:01:13)

3. Voices Ian turns to (00:02:09)

4. How titles connect to life (00:03:33)

5. Control and vulnerability in storytelling (00:05:51)

6. In the midst of funny and lonely (00:09:39)

7. Structure and adjectives (00:13:01)

8. Seeing and being seen as you get older (00:15:41)

9. Finding a church that practices an informed Christianity (00:18:12)

10. Where has community shown up in your life? (00:23:09)

11. Disappointment strengthens the heart (00:25:58)

12. Speed round (00:30:32)