On a drizzly Tuesday afternoon in a grey government office in Scarborough, the American writer John Irving became a Canadian citizen. “I couldn’t leave them or expect them to uproot their lives and come to Canada,” Irving says. As a writer, Irving says, he can write anywhere. But, sometimes, it’s hard to figure out where John Irving the writer ends and John Irving the individual begins. He is still, in many ways, a political writer.

Source: The Star December 13, 2019 22:36 UTC