Where Grant saw Kurt Vonnegut speak in the 1990s, and where he went by bus after reading On the Road.

Where it appears 2

portal to the unknownEp 9 · with Nevena
Where Nev's parents immigrated in 1996 and where she grew up.
the antidote to madnessEp 2 · with Grant Shipway
Listen at 10:38 Read it in the transcript

Connections

Immigrant child discovering her rootsNevena · Ep 9 · 45:10
Nev's parents moved to Toronto in 1996, when she was nine months old, and she grew up Canadian with only brief summer trips to the Balkans. Living there, she came to understand her father's…
On the Road sent him to TorontoGrant Shipway · Ep 2 · 16:18
At 19, at university in Ottawa, On the Road filled Grant with such a wild spirit that he jumped on a bus to Toronto to look up an old high-school acquaintance, which he now finds…
Seeing Vonnegut speak in TorontoGrant Shipway · Ep 2 · 10:38
In the 1990s Grant saw Kurt Vonnegut speak in Toronto: animated and full of warmth. Vonnegut said when his wife and daughter took up meditation he replied that he reads, which is his…