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Tuesday, April 1, 2008 - 10:00am The Royal Alexandra Portfolio - Photographs by Edward BurtynskyDavid Mirvish Books
Wednesday, April 2, 2008 - 7:00pm Influency 4: A Toronto Poetry Salon U of T School of Continuing Studies
Thursday, May 1, 2008 - 10:00am Toronto: A City Becoming - Photographs by Michael Awad, Scott Johnston and David KaufmanDavid Mirvish Books
Friday, May 9, 2008 - 8:00pm The I.V. Lounge Reading Series 10th AnniversaryIV Lounge
Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 1:00pm Jessica Westhead Reading in OshawaChapters - Oshawa Centre
Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 2:00pm Book Signing by Karol ZelaznyChapters - Square One Mississauga
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Submitted by kickstart on May 8, 2008 - 5:32pm.
Paul here -
I know I shouldn't do this. I know that OpenBook is an a quiet oasis on the prurient, trash-clogged net; that it should be reserved for high-minded discussions about semi-colons and the passive voice, but I kinda want to talk a bit about Facebook.
Now, before I get too far with this, you should know I'm a recovering Luddite (who still occasionally re-lapses when things get to be too much). Until just over a year ago, I didn't even have a bloody cell phone. And when my brother, then at Queen's University, spent the better part of his Christmas vacation ignoring his grandmother and looking at photos of undergrads on some hoaky-looking social networking site, I mocked him relentlessly.
Submitted by kickstart on May 8, 2008 - 10:52am.
The authors of Kickstart are about to set out on a book tour across Canada! That's right, the Open Book writers in residence for May will be mortgaging that residence for three weeks in order to explore what lies beyond the 416 (and even the 905). These are our dates and events. Please notify whoever you may know in these places. If you're actually from one of these places and are a frequent visitor to this Toronto literary site... well then, more power to you - and please stop by at one of our events.
May 9-11: Regina, SK
EVENT: Sunday, May 11 at 2:00 pm: Reading and signing at the Book & Brier Patch, 4065 Albert Street
May 12: Saskatoon, SK
May 13-15: Calgary, AB
EVENT: Wednesday, May 14 at 7:00 pm: Reading and signing at the Calgary Central Library, 616 MacLeod Trail SE
Submitted by clelia on May 8, 2008 - 9:54am.
Daphne Marlatt is the author of several books of poetry, including Steveston, Touch to My Tongue, Salvage and This Tremor Love Is. Her most recent poetry collection, The Given, was published this spring by McClelland & Stewart. She is also the author of two acclaimed novels, Ana Historic and Taken. Marlatt lives in Vancouver where she is a teacher and editor of numerous literary publications, including The Capilano Review and Tessera, which she co-founded.
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Tell us about your latest book, The Given.
Submitted by clelia on May 8, 2008 - 9:34am.
June and July will be bountiful months for Canadian fans of crime fiction. The winners of the Arthur Ellis Awards are announced on June 5 and Bloody Words VIII runs in Toronto from June 6 to 8. On July 12, across the country in Vancouver, the Symposium on the Book is "pulling back the covers on crime writing in Canada" and ten of "Canada’s top experts on all aspects of crime writing and publishing [will] delve deep not only into the techniques and mechanics of writing crime, but into the role and place of 'genre' writing in Canada."
The symposium will feature such notable authors as ECW Press's Anne Emery (Sign of the Cross, Obit, Barrington Street Blues), McClelland & Stewart editor Dinah Forbes and crime fiction columnist Margaret Cannon. The panel discussion will be moderated by mystery writer Mary Jane Maffini (Too Hot to Handle, Rendez-Vous Crime),
Submitted by clelia on May 7, 2008 - 8:37am.
Originally published in 2004, this highly successful look at the science behind the sport has been updated to become the most informative book yet about North America's favorite pastime.
Whether readers have their sights set on big-league grand slams or just want the inside scoop on everything baseball, How Baseball Works has something for everyone. Text that is as fast-paced to read as the game is to play, delves into all aspects of the sport. Great insider information includes:
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Writer In Residence
Alexander Herman, Paul Matthews and Andrew Feindel are the authors of Kickstart: How Successful Canadians Got Started (Dundurn Press, 2008). Kickstart profiles over 30 prominent Canadians who explain how they started their careers.
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