Susan Swan (Novelist)

 

Lost and Delirious is adapted from Susan Swan’s novel, The Wives of Bath, a finalist for Ontario’s Trillium Award and Britain’s Guardian Fiction Award.

Swan is currently finishing (comment ATTLAD: was finishing in 2001) a novel called What Casanova Told Me, a Mediterranean odyssey about the search for renewal, pleasure, and inspiration from the past – a story which has, as its counterpoint, the travellers of the 18th century who sought truth and beauty in the ruins of Greece and Rome. The novel is based on the journals of Asked For Adams, the niece of former American President John Adams, who travelled with the legendary Venetian in the last years of his life. The research she undertook is the inspiration for a symposium she is hosting as Robarts Chair in Canadian Studies at Toronto’s York University. The “moveable millennial wisdom symposium” features eighteen novelists, historians, and archaeologists talking about the way the past is recreated in popular culture and what wisdom the past has to offer as we move into this new century.

Stories from Swan’s last book, Stupid Boys are Good to Relax With (1966), were excerpted in the Fall 1996 issues of Granta and Ms. The story collection is a lively look at short-term relationships partly set in cyberspace. It was selected as a best title of the week by Entertainment Weekly.

(taken from the Lions Gate Films press kit, 2001)

note from A Tribute to Lost and Delirious:
Susan Swan wrote an article about her point of view according Lost and Delirious we published on our site at: Movie/ Susan Swan.