The Globe and Mail’s Ian Brown, an award-winning and bestselling author, discusses his new book: Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year (Random House, 2015), with Joseph Planta.

Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year by Ian Brown (Random House, 2015). Click to buy this book from Amazon.ca: Sixty

Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, at TheCommentary.ca.

Ian Brown joins me again. The award-winning author of The Boy in the Moon has a new book out, Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year. When he turned sixty on 04 February 2014, he began keeping a diary. This book is a chronicle of this year where he works through what being sixty means. It also provides the honest, humorous and candid thoughts running through Mr. Brown’s mind as he leaves his middle age years, thinking about family, the future, money, and sex. It’s a terrific book, and as he suggests lights a path for an oncoming generation. Ian Brown is an author and feature writer for the Globe and Mail. He has won numerous awards including National Magazine, and National Newspaper awards. The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for His Disabled Son was a national bestseller, a New York Times and Globe and Mail best book, and the winner of the Charles Taylor Prize, the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, and the Trillium Book Award. His previous books include Freewheeling, and Man Overboard. This new book is published by Random House. Please welcome back to the Planta: On the Line program, Ian Brown; Mr. Brown, good morning.

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