Professor Ian Williams Releases New Book, "What I Mean To Say: Remaking Conversation in Our Time"

October 11, 2024 by The Department of English

We’re excited to announce that Professor Ian Williams, Director of the MA in English in the Field of Creative Writing program, has published a new book titled What I Mean To Say: Remaking Conversation in Our Time with House of Anansi Press.

“With What I Mean to Say, award-winning novelist and poet Ian Williams seeks to ignite a conversation about conversation, to confront the deterioration of civic and civil discourse, and to reconsider the act of conversing as the sincere, open exchange of thoughts and feelings. Alternately serious and playful, Williams nimbly leaps between topics of discussion and, along the way, is discursive, digressive, and endlessly generous—like any great conversationalist.”

You can learn more about What I Mean To Say: Remaking Conversation in Our Time from House of Anansi Press.