The Epic of Dixon
Sean Dixon interviewed by Marianne Apostolides (Audio)

Actor, playwright, author and banjo impressario Sean Dixon interviewed by Toronto's Marianne Apostolides around Dixon's new novel The Girls Who Saw Everything. Dixon holds the distinctly envious position of being an actor trapped into success as a novelist. After publishing his first novel with the wonderful small press Coach House in Canada, he finds the British rights sold for an incredible amount to a larger press. Here he talks about the genesis of the novel as a play that escaped the stage, the generative process when you're negotiating the line between theatre and literary fiction, the insecurities of early writing, and his history of banjo addiction. And, yes, he does play the banjo during the recording. We at Bookninja have been fans of Dixon for quite some time, so this is very exciting for all of us.

Sean Dixon Interview
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Sean Dixon is a writer and actor. His plays include The Gift of the Coat, Billy Nothin', The Painting, Aerwacol, and a solo show, Falling Back Home. As an actor he has appeared on stages across the country, from Toronto's Factory Theatre to underneath the Burrard Street Bridge in Vancouver. He helped found the innovative nineties Winnipeg Theatre company PRIMUS and is Playwright-out-Residence for Victoria's Theatre SKAM. His writing has appeared in the Globe and Mail, This Magazine, Canadian Theatre Review, Brick and on CBC Radio. A play collection AWOL, is published by Coach House Books which recently released his first novel, The Girls Who Saw Everything. His YA novel, The Feathered Cloak, will be published by Key Porter in the fall of 2007. He lives and plays banjo in Toronto.

Marianne Apostolides is a Toronto-based writer whose work studiously ignores the boundary between fiction and non-fiction.