Around Town
Toronto Talks
Submitted by clelia on December 15, 2008 - 11:04am.
Derek McCormack (author of The Show That Smells, ECW Press) and Anwar Mukhayesh (from HGTV's The Designer Guys) interview each other about the inspiration behind their art.
Type is a new series of "co-interviews" where authors are paired with creative people in other fields of art and culture such as fashion, art, culinary arts, music, film/TV, theatre, dance and more.
The Scene
Submitted by clelia on December 9, 2008 - 10:57am.
On Saturday, December 6, kids and their parents gathered at the Gladstone Hotel for the first annual TINARS for Tots Extravagant Holiday Bonanza. The event was hosted by award-winning playwright and novelist Claudia Dey (Stunt, Coach House Books) and featured Clayton Hanmer (Super A-maze-ing Year of Crazy Comics, Owl Kids), Ruth Ohi (Chicken, Pig, Cow, Annick Press) and Zach Wells and Rachel Lebowitz (Anything But Hank, Biblioasis). Sharon Harris photographed the event for Open Book.
Toronto Profiles
Submitted by clelia on December 1, 2008 - 1:30pm.
Open Book talks to Catherine Graham, Marketing Coordinator of the Rowers Pub Reading Series and author of three poetry collections: The Watch (Abbey Press, 1998), Pupa (Insomniac Press, 2003) and The Red Element (Insomniac Press, 2008). Visit: www.catherinegraham.com. The Rowers Pub Reading Series website is www.rowerspubreadingseries.com.
OB:
When did you start the Rowers Pub Reading Series, and what are its origins?
CG:
The Rowers Pub Reading Series launched on Wednesday, October 3, 2007 with readings by Trevor Cole, Molly Peacock and George Elliott Clarke. The idea for the series began when poets Ned Hagerman and Ian Burgham, two regulars of the Rowers Pub & Grill, started talking over a pint one day and came to the following conclusion: wouldn’t it be great to establish a reading series that would encompass some of the finest poets/writers living in Canada and hold it here in this venue?
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Top Tens December, 2008
- Golden Tower, Fiona Patton
- Tyrant, Christian Cameron
- Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
- Alex and the Ironic Gentleman, Adrienne Kress
- Queen of Candesce, Karl Schroeder
- Filaria, Brett Hayward
- Hammer of God, Karen Miller
- Cast in Shadow, Karen Miller
- Summoning, Kelley Armstrong
- Little Brother, Cory Doctorow
- Bitter Roots Tender Shoots, Sally Armstrong
- What Species of Creature: Animal Relations from the New World, Sharon Kirsch
- The As It Happens Files: Radio That May Contain Nuts, Mary Lou Finlay
- Call Me Mimi, Francis Chalifour
- Through Black Spruce, Joseph Boyden
- The Best Canadian Poetry in English, Stephanie Bolster and Molly Peacock
- Historical Atlas of Toronto, Derek Hayes
- The Origin of Species, Nino Ricci
- The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art, Don Thompson
- Days of Sand, Hélène Dorion
- Through Black Spruce, Joseph Boyden
- Best Laid Plans, Terry Fallis
- Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill
- De Niro's Game, Rawi Hage
- Divisadero, Michael Ondaatje
- Rick Mercer Report , Rick Mercer
- Historical Atlas of Toronto, Derek Hayes
- Murder Stone, Louise Penny
- Payback, Margaret Atwood
- Unlikely Soldiers, Jonathan Vance
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