Steven Heighton
Steven Heighton
Steven Heighton is a Canadian novelist, short story writer and poet. He is the author of thirteen books, including three short story collections, three novels and five poetry collections. His most recent book, the short story collection The Dead Are More Visible, was published in 2012...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth14 August 1961
CountryCanada
awakened books draw lives readers send travel trying
I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying to write books that will draw readers away from their lives but send them back in a more awakened way.
despise larger supportive writ
I'm supportive of practical nationalism, like the kind we need in Canada to avoid being absorbed into a much larger country. The kind of nationalism I despise as destructive and infantile is really just tribalism writ large.
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I used to be more of a purist about literature. I thought, 'If it's a really propulsive story, then maybe there's something unliterary about it.'