Events
« October 23, 2008 - November 22, 2008 »
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10 / 23
(all day)
Start: 10/22/2008 - 18:00
End: 11/01/2008 - 00:00
The International Festival of Authors (IFOA) was inaugurated in 1980 with a mandate to bring together the best writers of contemporary world literature. Like the weekly reading series, the IFOA includes readings, interviews, lectures and round table discussions as well as public book signings and a festival bookstore. The IFOA also presents a number of special events including readings by Scotiabank Giller Prize, Governor General’s Literary Awards, and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalists, as well as the highly anticipated awarding of the Harbourfront Festival Prize.
For more information, go to www.readings.org.
2008 IFOA confirmed authors include:
Julie Angus
Nadeem Aslam
Stéphane Audeguy
Ken Babstock
Start: 2:00 pm
Jan Rehner, author of On Pain of Death (Sumach Press), will be at Wychwood Library, 1431 Bathurst Street (Bathurst & Melgund Road) for a reading and talk on Thursday, October 23 at 2:00 p.m.
Jan Rehner teaches academic and professional writing at York University. She has travelled to France many times, and visited many local French Resistance museums. Her previous publications include poetry and academic works as well as her first mystery, Just Murder, which won the 2004 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel.
Start: 8:00 pm
To herald the arrival of his debut novel, The Steve Machine (Coach House Books), acclaimed filmmaker Mike Hoolboom presents "The Last Book: A Magical Journey To The End of Print". Set in a not-so-distant future, when everyone is named 'Steve', Hoolboom's five-part multi-media extravaganza is an elegy for the last book ever published. "The Last Book" will feature performances by violinist Reena Katz and magician Jack Fuller.
At the Rivoli, 332 Queen Street West, Toronto
Thursday, October 23 at 8:00 p.m. (doors 7:30 p.m.) free
Start: 8:00 pm
Readings on Thursday, October 23 and 8:00 p.m. at the Fleck Dance Theatre (formerly Premiere Dance Theatre) at the Harbourfront Centre. Catherine Belyea hosts. Visit the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
Nadeem Aslam (Pakistan/U.K.) is the author of Maps for Lost Lovers, a New York Times Notable Book which received the 2005 Kiriyama Prize and was shortlisted for the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and Season of the Rainbirds.
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10 / 24
(all day)
Start: 10/22/2008 - 18:00
End: 11/01/2008 - 00:00
The International Festival of Authors (IFOA) was inaugurated in 1980 with a mandate to bring together the best writers of contemporary world literature. Like the weekly reading series, the IFOA includes readings, interviews, lectures and round table discussions as well as public book signings and a festival bookstore. The IFOA also presents a number of special events including readings by Scotiabank Giller Prize, Governor General’s Literary Awards, and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalists, as well as the highly anticipated awarding of the Harbourfront Festival Prize.
For more information, go to www.readings.org.
2008 IFOA confirmed authors include:
Julie Angus
Nadeem Aslam
Stéphane Audeguy
Ken Babstock
Start: 8:00 pm
On Friday, October 24 at 8:00 p.m. at the Studio Theatre at Harbourfront Centre. Visit the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
Nadeem Aslam, Lauren Groff and Dan Vyleta start where all good stories should: at the beginning. Rachel Harry moderates this round-table event.
Start: 8:00 pm
On Friday, October 24 at 8:00 p.m. at the Lakeside Terrace at Harbourfront Centre. Visit the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
Between them Joan Barfoot, Emma Donoghue, Amara Lakhous, Francine Prose and Anita Shreve have published more than 40 books. Hear stories of family strife, old-age mischief, and small-town murder and mayhem when they read from their new novels. James Grainger hosts.
Start: 8:00 pm
The launch for Butcher's Block (PistolPress), written by Deanna Fong and illustrated by Bilyana Ilievska, and We Will Be Fish (PistolPress), written and illustrated by Jp King, is at Freedom Clothing Collective - 939 Bloor Street W. (just West of Ossington), Toronto, on Friday, October 24 at 8:00 p.m.
Deanna Fong's Butcher's Block reflects on one's emotional connection to fixed locales. Using the age-old conflation of food and sex as a vehicle, this collection of poetry negotiates consumption with wry language, poetic deftness, and incisive illustrations, remembering the trail of people left behind when one balances a domestic and nomadic way of life.
Start: 8:00 pm
Carey Toane, Faye Guenther and Dani Couture (Good Meat, Pedlar Press) will be reading at Tinto at 89 Roncesvalles on October 24. The show starts at 8 p.m. and it's free. Emily Schultz (Songs for the Dancing Chicken, ECW Press) will be hosting.
Start: 8:00 pm
On Friday, October 24 at 8:00 p.m. in the Brigantine Room at the Harbourfront Centre. Visit the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
Poetry by His Honour Herménégilde Chiasson; a career's shortest book from the inimitable Rohinton Mistry; a new novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo; breathtaking debut novels from award-winning poet Owen Sheers and journalist Nathan Whitlock.
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10 / 25
(all day)
Start: 10/22/2008 - 18:00
End: 11/01/2008 - 00:00
The International Festival of Authors (IFOA) was inaugurated in 1980 with a mandate to bring together the best writers of contemporary world literature. Like the weekly reading series, the IFOA includes readings, interviews, lectures and round table discussions as well as public book signings and a festival bookstore. The IFOA also presents a number of special events including readings by Scotiabank Giller Prize, Governor General’s Literary Awards, and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalists, as well as the highly anticipated awarding of the Harbourfront Festival Prize.
For more information, go to www.readings.org.
2008 IFOA confirmed authors include:
Julie Angus
Nadeem Aslam
Stéphane Audeguy
Ken Babstock
Start: 12:00 pm
On Saturday, October 25 at 12:00 p.m. in the Brigantine Room at the Harbourfront Centre. Visit the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
IT'S IRISH! - IFOA's special focus on the literary traditions of the Emerald Isle - begins with a round table on the country's history. Celebrated Irish historians Diarmaid Ferriter and R.F. Foster talk to IT'S IRISH guest curator Colm Tóibín.
Start: 1:00 pm
Toronto Public Library's Writer in Residence, Karen Connelly (The Lizard Cage), will be leading a workshop on The Art of Writing Memoirs in the Beeton Auditorium of the Toronto Reference Library. On Saturday, October 25 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Start: 1:00 pm
On Saturday, October 25 at 1:00 p.m. At the Lakeside Terrace at the Harbourfront Centre. Visit the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
Four authors presenting their fiction at IFOA talk to Susan G. Cole about the influence of fact. A round table with David Benioff, Joe Dunthorne, Rivka Galchen and Owen Sheers.
Start: 1:00 pm
On Saturday, October 25 at 1:00 p.m. in the Studio Theatre at Harbourfront Centre. Visit the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
Mia Kirshner and fellow contributors Karen Connelly and Lauren Kirshner present this "paper documentary" comprising four journals - one each for Chechnya, Burma, Mexico and Malawi - published with support from Amnesty International.
Start: 2:00 pm
On Saturday, October 25 at 2:00 p.m. in the Brigantine Room at Harbourfront Centre. Visit the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
Bert Archer moderates a round table on contemporary Irish literature with authors Dermot Bolger, Emma Donoghue, Hugo Hamilton and David Park.
Start: 3:00 pm
On Saturday, October 25 at 3:00 p.m. in the Studio Theatre at the Harbourfront Centre. Visit the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
Lynda Barry presents What it is and is interviewed by Peter Birkemoe, co-owner of the Beguiling in Toronto.
Start: 4:00 pm
On Saturday, October 25 at 4:00 p.m. at the Lakeside Terrace at the Harbourfront Centre. Visit the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
In this round-table event, Joan Barfoot, Francine Prose and Frank Westerman talk to Globe and Mail Books editor Martin Levin about realism and the contemporary novel.
Start: 5:00 pm
On Saturday, October 25 at 5:00 p.m. in the Brigantine Room at the Harbourfront Centre. Go to the IFOA website to purchase your tickets.
As election fever continues to rise, a panel of frequent contributors to both the New York Review of Books and the Guardian weighs in on the presidential election in the United States. Panelists include: Michael Tomasky, editor of Guardian America, Richard Adams, D.C. Correspondent for the Guardian and Peter Galbraith, a contributor to the New York Review of Books.
Start: 5:00 pm
On Saturday, October 25 at 5:00 p.m. in the Studio Theatre at Harbourfront Centre. Go to the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
The doyen of book-jacket design, Chip Kidd, talks Bat-Manga with The Beguiling manager, Christopher Butcher.
Start: 8:00 pm
Readings by John Connolly, Ildefonso Falcones, David Park and Frank Westerman on
Saturday, October 25, 8:00 pm in the Studio Theatre at Harbourfront Centre. Go to the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
Authors from four countries read from books originally written in three different languages. James Grainger hosts.
Start: 8:00 pm
On Saturday, October 25 at 8:00pm at the Fleck Dance Theatre (formerly Premiere Dance Theatre) at Harbourfront Centre. On October 25 at 8:00 p.m. Go to the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
Readings by Dermot Bolger, Paul Durcan, Anne Enright, Arnon Grunberg, Nam Le. Arresting poetry, prose, and short fiction from three countries and two languages. Catherine Belyea hosts.
Start: 8:00 pm
Readings by David Benioff, Junot Díaz, Lauren Groff, Aleksandar Hemon, Kathleen McCracken on Saturday, October 25 at 8:00pm at the Lakeside Terrace at Harbourfront Centre. Go to the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
Tales of war, hard times, and family secrets from four young authors making big waves in the literary scene south of the border. With a poetry reading by Kathleen McCracken. Richard Clewes hosts.
Start: 8:00 pm
Readings by Jeffery Deaver, David Ebershoff, Donna Morrissey and Ross Raisin on Saturday, October 25, 8:00pm in the Brigantine Room at Harbourfront Centre. Visit the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
A nail-biting thriller about identity theft from international bestseller Jeffrey Deaver, an historical murder mystery from David Ebershoff, vintage Canadiana from Donna Morrissey, and a dark journey inside a sociopathic mind from newcomer Ross Raisin. John van Driel hosts.
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10 / 26
(all day)
Start: 10/22/2008 - 18:00
End: 11/01/2008 - 00:00
The International Festival of Authors (IFOA) was inaugurated in 1980 with a mandate to bring together the best writers of contemporary world literature. Like the weekly reading series, the IFOA includes readings, interviews, lectures and round table discussions as well as public book signings and a festival bookstore. The IFOA also presents a number of special events including readings by Scotiabank Giller Prize, Governor General’s Literary Awards, and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalists, as well as the highly anticipated awarding of the Harbourfront Festival Prize.
For more information, go to www.readings.org.
2008 IFOA confirmed authors include:
Julie Angus
Nadeem Aslam
Stéphane Audeguy
Ken Babstock
Start: 11:00 am
Humber Writers' Circle is on Sunday, October 26, 11:00am in the Studio Theatre at Harbourfront Centre. Visit the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
Presented by the Humber School of Creative & Performing Arts. Listen to an experienced author talk about the craft of writing. Network with other writers. Have the first page of your fiction or narrative non-fiction manuscript assessed by an agent, author and creative-writing teacher.
Author/Literary sage: Colm Tóibín.
Assessor: John Pearce, Literary Agent, Westwood Creative Artists.
Host: Kim Moritsugu, author and teacher of creative writing at Humber.
Start: 12:00 pm
What I wish I'd written: Writers on other writers is on Sunday, October 26, 12:00pm at the Lakeside Terrace at Harbourfront Centre. Go to the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
In this round table event, David Ebershoff, Arnon Grunberg, Aleksandar Hemon, Andrew Miller and Simon Montefiore talk to Charles Foran about their influences and inspirations.
Start: 12:00 pm
Reading/Interview with Sarah Vowell on Sunday, October 26, 12:00pm at the Fleck Dance Theatre (formerly Premiere Dance Theatre) at Harbourfront Centre. Visit the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
The New York Times bestselling author of Assassination Vacation talks to Ian Brown about America's past - this time: the Puritans in 17th Century New England. Also includes a reading from The Wordy Shipmates. Catherine Belyea hosts.
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Canzine, Canada's Largest zine fair and festival of alternative culture, is on October 26 from 1:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Gladstone Hotel. $5 gets you in the door for zines, film screenings, readings and a copy of the Comedy Issue of Broken Pencil Magazine.
1:00 - 7:00 p.m. Giant Zine Fair! Over 150 zines from across Canada on display and for sale! The heart of the event, indie publishers both in print and online come from across the country and the continent to show their wares! Be amazed at the creativity, ingenuity, and sheer weirdness!
Start: 1:00 pm
Bill Douglas talks to Chip Kidd and Lynda Barry and turns the old adage on its head. On Sunday, October 26 at 1:00pm in the Brigantine Room at Harbourfront Centre. Go to the IFOA website to purchase a ticket.
Start: 2:00 pm
Interview: Junot Díaz & Rawi Hage on Sunday, October 26, 2:00pm at the Fleck Dance Theatre (formerly Premiere Dance Theatre) at the Harbourfront Centre. Visit the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead), and Rawi Hage, whose second novel Cockroach (House of Anansi Press) is currently shortlisted for both the Rogers Writers' Trust and Scotiabank Giller Prize, are interviewed by Rachel Giese. Catherine Belyea hosts.
Start: 2:00 pm
Don Thompson and the $12 million stuffed shark on Sunday, October 26, 2:00pm at the Studio Theatre at Harbourfront Centre. Go to the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
Don Thompson delves into the economics and psychology of a contemporary art world in which formaldehyde sheep and unmade beds inspire both rapture and disgust as they turn heads and grab headlines. He reads from The $12 Million Stuffed Shark (Doubleday Canada) and is interviewed by Mark Kingwell. Joanne Tod hosts.
Presented in association with The Power Plant.
Start: 3:00 pm
Home is where the plot is: a round-table event on Sunday, October 26, 3:00pm in the Brigantine Room at the Harbourfront Centre. Go to the IFOA website to purchase a ticket.
In this round-tale event, Sandra Martin talks to Anne Enright, Amara Lakhous, Nam Le, and Margot Livesey about the roles of home and domesticity in their fiction.
Start: 4:00 pm
Crime & Mystery: Psycho-Babble: getting inside a character's twisted mind is on Sunday, October 26, 4:00pm at the Fleck Dance Theatre (formerly Premiere Dance Theatre) at Harbourfront Centre. Visit the IFOA website to purchase a ticket.
In this round table event, John Connolly, Jeffrey Deaver, Elena Forbes, and Ross Raisin talk to Globe and Mail crime reviewer Margaret Cannon about the darker side of some of their fiction.
Start: 4:00 pm
Sunday, October 26, 4:00pm in the Studio Theatre at Harbourfront Centre. Go to the IFOA website to purchase a ticket.
For the first time, the bi-annual Ben McNally Travellers Series takes place as part of IFOA. Join host Ben McNally as Julie Angus, Dervla Murphy, and Andrew Westoll share tales from the Atlantic, the Urals, and the Last Eden of Suriname.
Presented with Event Partner Outpost Magazine.
Start: 5:00 pm
A fiction-lover's fantasy, with readings from five new novels. (P.S. The city of Toronto is a main character in two of them.) Alison Pick hosts.
Rivka Galchen’s writing has been published in the Believer, New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire and Scientific American, and she was the recipient of a 2006 Rona Jaffe Foundation
Hugo Hamilton is the author of the New York Times notable memoir The Speckled People and its sequel, The Harbor Boys.
As a journalist, Mohammed Hanif has worked for Newsline, India Today and the Washington Post.
Start: 5:00 pm
Sunday, October 26, 5:00pm in the Brigantine Room at Harbourfront Centre. Go to the IFOA website to purchase a ticket.
Victoria Glendinning talks to Jane Urquhart about Love's Civil War, a catalogue of a love affair as revealed through the letters of Elizabeth Bowen. Ania Szado hosts.
Biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist Victoria Glendinning’s acclaimed biographies include Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West and Trollope, both of which won the Whitbread Biography Award.
Ania Szado is the author of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize regionally-shortlisted novel Beginning of Was.
Start: 8:00 pm
Reading/Interview with Josef Škvorecký on Sunday, October 26 at 3:00 p.m. at the Lakeside Terrace at Harbourfront Centre. Go to the IFOA website to purchase a ticket.
Thirty years after his first reading at Harbourfront Centre, Josef Škvorecký presents his new novel, Ordinary Lives, and is interviewed by S. Randy Boyagoda. Alison Pick hosts.
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10 / 27
(all day)
Start: 10/22/2008 - 18:00
End: 11/01/2008 - 00:00
The International Festival of Authors (IFOA) was inaugurated in 1980 with a mandate to bring together the best writers of contemporary world literature. Like the weekly reading series, the IFOA includes readings, interviews, lectures and round table discussions as well as public book signings and a festival bookstore. The IFOA also presents a number of special events including readings by Scotiabank Giller Prize, Governor General’s Literary Awards, and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalists, as well as the highly anticipated awarding of the Harbourfront Festival Prize.
For more information, go to www.readings.org.
2008 IFOA confirmed authors include:
Julie Angus
Nadeem Aslam
Stéphane Audeguy
Ken Babstock
Start: 6:00 pm
Join ECW and Alex Gillis for the launch of his new book, A Killing Art at 7 Numbers Restaurant, 307 Danforth Avenue, Toronto. On October 27 at 6:00 p.m.
Head to the launch for a high-flying Tae Kwon Do demonstration, including sparring and board breaking, by the author and former world champion! Book signing and to follow. Hors d'oeuvres will be served. Cash bar (featuring one of Toronto's finest selections of Scotch whiskey). This event is free and open to the public.
Start: 7:00 pm
Graphic artist and author, Shaun Tan (The Arrival, Tales from Outer Suburbia, Tundra Books), is appearing at the Northern District Branch of the Toronto Public Library, October 27th at 7:00 p.m.
Tundra author Shaun Tan has been illustrating young adult fiction and picture books for more than ten years. His brilliant wordless book, The Arrival, won The CBCA Picture Book of the Year, The NSW Premier’s Book of the Year, and the Community Relations Commission Award, and received a Special Mention at the 2007 Bologna Ragazzi Awards. He lives in Australia.
Start: 7:00 pm
The launch for The Bite of the Mango (Annick Press) by Mariatu Kamara with Susan McClelland is on Monday, October 27 at the Gladstone Hotel. The Bite of the Mango is the astounding story of one girl’s journey from war victim to UNICEF Special Representative.
Mariatu Kamara will embark this year on a North American speaking tour as a UNICEF Special Representative for Children in Armed Conflicts. A documentary about her life is in development.
Susan McClelland is an award-winning journalist and recipient of the 2005 Amnesty International Media Award. She also lives in Toronto.
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10 / 28
(all day)
Start: 10/22/2008 - 18:00
End: 11/01/2008 - 00:00
The International Festival of Authors (IFOA) was inaugurated in 1980 with a mandate to bring together the best writers of contemporary world literature. Like the weekly reading series, the IFOA includes readings, interviews, lectures and round table discussions as well as public book signings and a festival bookstore. The IFOA also presents a number of special events including readings by Scotiabank Giller Prize, Governor General’s Literary Awards, and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalists, as well as the highly anticipated awarding of the Harbourfront Festival Prize.
For more information, go to www.readings.org.
2008 IFOA confirmed authors include:
Julie Angus
Nadeem Aslam
Stéphane Audeguy
Ken Babstock
Start: 10:30 am
Tuesday, October 28, 10:30 a.m. in the Brigantine Room at Harbourfront Centre. Go to the IFOA website to purchase a ticket.
Join author Patti McIntosh onstage at YoungIFOA, and a doctor from Médecins San Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) live in Darfur! Patti McIntosh’s book, Ollie’s Field Journal: a 9/10 Happy Story from Africa (Grades 4 to 6), is a beautifully produced and inspiring book that encourages children to become active in issues affecting their world – particularly malnutrition. Kyle Buckley (The Laundromat Essay, Coach House Books) hosts.
Start: 5:00 pm
Shaun Tan will be signing his book Tales from Outer Suburbia at The Beguiling, October 28th from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Tundra author Shaun Tan has been illustrating young adult fiction and picture books for more than ten years. His brilliant wordless book, The Arrival, won The CBCA Picture Book of the Year, The NSW Premier’s Book of the Year, and the Community Relations Commission Award, and received a Special Mention at the 2007 Bologna Ragazzi Awards. He lives in Australia.
Start: 8:00 pm
Tuesday, October 28, 8:00pm at the Studio Theatre at Harbourfront Centre. Go to the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
Everyone has to start somewhere, and authors are no exception to the rule. Richard Price, Peter Robinson, Meg Wolitzer and Ronald Wright share their own beginnings. Moderated by Vit Wagner.
Start: 8:00 pm
Tuesday, October 28, 8:00pm at the Lakeside Terrace at Harbourfront Centre. Go to the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
Poetry by Sue Sinclair, and new novels from acclaimed authors Stéphane Audeguy, Amanda Boyden, Linda Grant and Simon Montefiore. Anne Hines hosts.
Start: 8:00 pm
Tuesday, October 28, 8:00pm at the Fleck Dance Theatre (formerly Premiere Dance Theatre) at Harbourfront Centre. Go to the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
Two Governor General's Literary Award-winners, Don Domanski (All Our Wonder Unavenged, Brick Books) and Nino Ricci (The Origin of Species, DoubleDay Canada), one Pulitzer Prize finalist (Deborah Baker), and two critically acclaimed authors, Leif Enger (So Brave, Young, and Handsome) and Amitav Ghosh (Sea of Poppies), read from their latest books. Catherine Belyea hosts.
Start: 8:00 pm
Tuesday, October 28, 8:00pm in the Brigantine Room at Harbourfront Centre. Go to the IFOA website to purchase a ticket.
Poetry by Adam Sol (Jeremiah, Ohio, House of Anansi Press) kick starts this night of murder, mystery, and gritty, political drama, four novelists at the top of their game sharing scenes from their new books. James Grainger hosts.
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10 / 29
(all day)
Start: 10/22/2008 - 18:00
End: 11/01/2008 - 00:00
The International Festival of Authors (IFOA) was inaugurated in 1980 with a mandate to bring together the best writers of contemporary world literature. Like the weekly reading series, the IFOA includes readings, interviews, lectures and round table discussions as well as public book signings and a festival bookstore. The IFOA also presents a number of special events including readings by Scotiabank Giller Prize, Governor General’s Literary Awards, and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalists, as well as the highly anticipated awarding of the Harbourfront Festival Prize.
For more information, go to www.readings.org.
2008 IFOA confirmed authors include:
Julie Angus
Nadeem Aslam
Stéphane Audeguy
Ken Babstock
Start: 6:00 pm
Left Feet, Heart On Your Sleeve & Arsenal Pulp Press are pleased to announce the launch of Sarah Kramer's latest book, Vegan A Go-Go!: A Cookbook & Survival Manual For Vegans On The Road.
Head to Left Feet at 88 Nassau St at 61A Bellevue Ave in Kensington Market on Wednesday, October 29 between 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. for the official Toronto launch. You'll have a chance to meet Sarah in person, pick up a signed copy of the new book, win some great prizes, snack, and hob-knob with your fellow vegans.
Start: 7:30 pm
Come hear the shy, funny, risky, smart work of Chris Kay Fraser, Ferdous Nahar and Jill Jorgenson at Ezra’s Pound Cafe, 238 Dupont Street, Toronto. 416.929.4400.
Organized and Hosted by Ronna Bloom.
Wednesday, October 29th at 7:30 p.m.
Start: 7:30 pm
The entire second floor of the Gladstone Hotel will be transformed into a haunted house. Acclaimed illusionist Joshua Jay shall astound you with sleight-of-hand moves from his new guide, Magic (Thomas Allen Publishers). What happens in Toronto's graveyards when the sun goes down? Charlie Wilkins will recount bizarre-yet-true events from his memoir of toiling as a gravedigger, In the Land of Long Fingernails (Penguin Group Canada).
At the Gladstone Hotel 2nd Floor Gallery, 1214 Queen St W, Toronto
Wednesday, October 29 at 7:30 p.m. (doors 7:00 p.m.) tickets $5 (Book Rebate)
Start: 8:00 pm
Wednesday, October 29, 8:00pm at the Fleck Dance Theatre (formerly Premiere Dance Theatre) at Harbourfront Centre. Visit the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
Bite your nails down to the quick. Poetry from Patrick Lane heralds an evening of dark plots and sinister scenes. John Brady, Elena Forbes, Peter Robinson, and Tom Rob Smith read from their new novels. Catherine Belyea hosts.
Start: 8:00 pm
Wednesday, October 29 at 8:00pm in the Brigantine Room at Harbourfront Centre. Go to the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
The Writers' Trust Awards is one of the largest literary prize-giving events in the country, now annually awarding $155,000 to Canadian writers. In a special event new to its lineup this year, IFOA is proud to present the authors nominated for The Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize - one of the fall's big three Canadian fiction prizes. This year's finalists are Rivka Galchen, Rawi Hage, Lee Henderson, Patrick Lane, and Miriam Toews. Larry C. Murray hosts.
Winners will be announced on November 17.
Start: 8:00 pm
Alland, Sally Cooper and Fraser Sutherland will be at Pivot Readings at the Press Club on Wednesday, October 29 at 8:00 p.m. The evening is hosted by Carey Toane. Free,
Sandra Alland is a Scottish-Canadian writer, multimedia artist and activist. She has published two books of poetry, Blissful Times with BookThug and Proof of a Tongue with McGilligan Books. Currently, she's working on a collection of short fiction called Things I Don't Remember, as well as recording music-poetry fusion-weirdness with the performance group Zorras. www.myspace.com/sandraalland
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10 / 30
(all day)
Start: 10/22/2008 - 18:00
End: 11/01/2008 - 00:00
The International Festival of Authors (IFOA) was inaugurated in 1980 with a mandate to bring together the best writers of contemporary world literature. Like the weekly reading series, the IFOA includes readings, interviews, lectures and round table discussions as well as public book signings and a festival bookstore. The IFOA also presents a number of special events including readings by Scotiabank Giller Prize, Governor General’s Literary Awards, and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalists, as well as the highly anticipated awarding of the Harbourfront Festival Prize.
For more information, go to www.readings.org.
2008 IFOA confirmed authors include:
Julie Angus
Nadeem Aslam
Stéphane Audeguy
Ken Babstock
Start: 6:30 pm
Thursday, October 30, 2008
The Trane Studio, 964 Bathurst St.
(Between Bloor and Dupont)
Dinner available at 6:30, Cubanos will play at 7:00, Readings at 7:30
Join Tightrope Books for an exciting evening celebrating Latin music, poetry and performance. Don't miss the best and the brightest Latino writing and music has to offer, including a bi-lingual translation of renowned Serbian poet Goran Simic's work, a reading by Mexican poet Salvador Alinas, Jesse Villegas reading from Voices in First Person and a performance by celebrated emerging voice and Cha Cha curator and organizer Monica Rosas.
Following the readings enjoy the sounds of Cubanos.
Start: 7:30 pm
Thursday, October 30, 7:00pm at Gallery on the Bay in Hamilton.
Poet Sue Sinclair and novelists Helen Humphreys and Donna Morrissey travel to Hamilton to share their latest books. Richard Bachmann hosts.
Presented in partnership with Bryan Prince, Bookseller. Tickets can be purchased through Harbourfront Centre or directly from Bryan Prince, Bookseller at 905-528-4508.
Start: 7:30 pm
What one piece of knowledge would you preserve for 1000 years? In this exclusive Toronto appearance, legendary science-fiction writer Neal Stephenson will discusses his new novel, Anathem (HarperCollins Canada) and other philosophical chestnuts with Mark Askwith, producer of Space TV. Stephenson will also address five video submissions by readers from across Canada who have answered the question, "What one piece of knowledge would you preserve for 1000 years?" Want your video to be one of the lucky five to be featured at this event? Record your answer to the question, upload it to You Tube and send the link to HCContests [at] harpercollins [dot] com. The five lucky winners will receive a Neal Stephenson library!
Special co-presenter: Space TV.
Start: 8:00 pm
Thursday, October 30, 8:00pm in the Brigantine Room at Harbourfront Centre. Go to the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
Poetry by Lorna Crozier; eagerly awaited new fiction from Joseph Boyden (Three Day Road) and Damon Galgut (The Good Doctor); debut novels from celebrated poet Patrick Lane and impresive new voice Nathaniel Rich. Alison Pick hosts.
Start: 8:00 pm
Thursday, October 30, 8:00pm at the Fleck Dance Theatre (formerly Premiere Dance Theatre) at Harbourfront Centre. Go to the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
Narratives of family, turbulent times, and trauma. Paul Durcan remembers his mother: Meg Wolitzer examines what it means to be one. Authors Rawi Hage, Hari Kunzru, and Patrick McGrath examine the trauma and the personal conflicts attached to war. Catherine Belyea hosts
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10 / 31
(all day)
Start: 10/22/2008 - 18:00
End: 11/01/2008 - 00:00
The International Festival of Authors (IFOA) was inaugurated in 1980 with a mandate to bring together the best writers of contemporary world literature. Like the weekly reading series, the IFOA includes readings, interviews, lectures and round table discussions as well as public book signings and a festival bookstore. The IFOA also presents a number of special events including readings by Scotiabank Giller Prize, Governor General’s Literary Awards, and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalists, as well as the highly anticipated awarding of the Harbourfront Festival Prize.
For more information, go to www.readings.org.
2008 IFOA confirmed authors include:
Julie Angus
Nadeem Aslam
Stéphane Audeguy
Ken Babstock
Start: 8:00 pm
Friday, October 31, 8:00pm in the Brigantine Room at Harbourfront Centre. Go to the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
Real stories of true lives: Richard Gwyn, winner of the 2008 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction, reads on a bill with fellow non-fiction headliners (and Canadians) Christopher Dewdney, Charlotte Gray, and M.G. Vassanji. With poetry from Adam Sol. Lewis DeSoto hosts.
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End: 12:00 am
Start: 10/22/2008 - 18:00
End: 11/01/2008 - 00:00
The International Festival of Authors (IFOA) was inaugurated in 1980 with a mandate to bring together the best writers of contemporary world literature. Like the weekly reading series, the IFOA includes readings, interviews, lectures and round table discussions as well as public book signings and a festival bookstore. The IFOA also presents a number of special events including readings by Scotiabank Giller Prize, Governor General’s Literary Awards, and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalists, as well as the highly anticipated awarding of the Harbourfront Festival Prize.
For more information, go to www.readings.org.
2008 IFOA confirmed authors include:
Julie Angus
Nadeem Aslam
Stéphane Audeguy
Ken Babstock
Start: 12:00 pm
Saturday, November 1, 12:00pm in the Brigantine Room at Harbourfront Centre. Go to the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
With five writers as good as this on stage together, IFOA though it might be fun not to to have a discussion topic, but to just let them see where their conversation takes them. Amanda Boyden, Paul Quarrington, Nathaniel Rich, and Nathan Whitlock sit down with Walrus Magazine Arts and Entertainment editor Daniel Baird to talk about what's on their minds.
Start: 4:00 pm
Saturday, November 1, 4:00pm at the Lakeside Terrace at Harbourfront Centre. Go to the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
In this round table, David Bergen, Christopher Dewdney and Bill Gaston talk to the Walrus' Jeremy Keehn about narrative and the passage of time.
Start: 6:00 pm
The Fall 2008 Toronto Small Press Book Fair will take place at he Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick (south of Bloor), Toronto from 6:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 1st. Check out the Toronto Small Press Group's website for a full listing of readings and presses that you can check out at the event.
Start: 8:00 pm
Legendary novelist, poet, and essayist Margaret Atwood delivers a surprising look at the topic of debt in Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth. Payback is not about practical debt management or high finance. It is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human societies.
Margaret Atwood writes, "These are not lectures about how to get out of debt; rather, they're about the debtor/creditor twinship in the broadest sense -- from human sacrifice to pawnshops to revenge. In this light, what we owe and how we pay is a feature of all human societies, and profoundly shapes our shared values and our cultures."
In Toronto on Saturday, November 1 at 8:00 p.m., Convocation Hall.
Start: 8:00 pm
Start: 11/01/2008 - 20:00
End: 11/09/2008 - 00:00
Koffler Centre of the Arts proudly presents The Jewish Book Fair at the Leah Posluns Theatre, from November 1 to 9, 2008. One of the largest of its kind in North America, the Jewish Book Fair celebrates its 32nd year with a packed roster of international and local authors, talks, books, panel discussions, and events for all ages.
The 32nd Annual Jewish Book Fair kicks off on November 1 at 8 p.m. with Opening Night Feature ‘The Greatest Threats Faced by Israel Today’ – a talk by world renowned author and highly respected Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. Dershowitz will speak on his latest book, The Case Against Israel's Enemies.
Other authors speaking at this year’s Fair include:
Ronald Aronson, Living Without God
Start: 8:00 pm
The Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalists are reading at the IFOA on Saturday, November 1, 8:00pm, in the Fleck Dance Theatre (formerly Premiere Dance Theatre). Go to the IFOA website to purchase your ticket.
For the fifth consecutive year, authors in the running to take home the richest literary fiction prize in Canada take the IFOA final bow when they read from their nominated books.This year's shortlist includes Joseph Boyden, Anthony De Sa, Marina Endicott, Rawi Hage and Mary Swan. Catherine Belyea hosts.
($25/$20 members)
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11 / 2
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Start: 11/01/2008 - 20:00
End: 11/09/2008 - 00:00
Koffler Centre of the Arts proudly presents The Jewish Book Fair at the Leah Posluns Theatre, from November 1 to 9, 2008. One of the largest of its kind in North America, the Jewish Book Fair celebrates its 32nd year with a packed roster of international and local authors, talks, books, panel discussions, and events for all ages.
The 32nd Annual Jewish Book Fair kicks off on November 1 at 8 p.m. with Opening Night Feature ‘The Greatest Threats Faced by Israel Today’ – a talk by world renowned author and highly respected Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. Dershowitz will speak on his latest book, The Case Against Israel's Enemies.
Other authors speaking at this year’s Fair include:
Ronald Aronson, Living Without God
Start: 4:00 pm
Second Story Press authors Kathy Kacer (The Diary of Laura's Twin), Karen Levine (Hana’s Suitcase), Ami Sands Brodoff (The White Space Between and Gina Roitman (Tell Me a Story, Tell Me the Truth will be participating in a panel discussion called "Women Writing the Holocaust" as part of the Jewish Book Fair and Holocaust Education Week.
Sunday, November 2 at 4:00 p.m. in the theatre at the Bathurst Jewish Community Centre, 4588 Bathurst Street, Toronto.
Start: 7:30 pm
Katherine Lawrence (Lying to Our Mothers, Coteau Books), Betsy Struthers (Where the Night Comes Closest, Black Moss Press), Andrew Steinmetz (Eva's Threepenny Theatre Gaspereau Press), Kate Story (Blasted, Killick Press), Nitin Deckha (Shopping for Sabzi, TSAR Publications) and Rocco de Giacomo (Catching Dawn's Breath, LyricalMiracle Press) read at the Lit Live Reading Series at the Sky Dragon Centre in Hamilton on Sunday, November 2 at 7:30 p.m.
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11 / 3
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Start: 11/01/2008 - 20:00
End: 11/09/2008 - 00:00
Koffler Centre of the Arts proudly presents The Jewish Book Fair at the Leah Posluns Theatre, from November 1 to 9, 2008. One of the largest of its kind in North America, the Jewish Book Fair celebrates its 32nd year with a packed roster of international and local authors, talks, books, panel discussions, and events for all ages.
The 32nd Annual Jewish Book Fair kicks off on November 1 at 8 p.m. with Opening Night Feature ‘The Greatest Threats Faced by Israel Today’ – a talk by world renowned author and highly respected Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. Dershowitz will speak on his latest book, The Case Against Israel's Enemies.
Other authors speaking at this year’s Fair include:
Ronald Aronson, Living Without God
Start: 7:00 pm
This Ain’t the Rosedale Library launches Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s So Many Ways to Sleep Badly with introductions from Hal Niedzviecki, Stacey May Fowles and Tara-Michelle Ziniuk, with host Sandra Alland. 7pm on Mon, Nov 3 at The Boat (158 Augusta Ave). Cover is free in advance; $5 at the door; call (416) 929-9912.
Start: 7:30 pm
Bill Richardson, a well-known columnist, writer, humourist and former radio host for the CBC, will be reading at Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, on Monday, November 3 at 7:30p.m. His dozen books include The Bachelor Brothers Bed and Breakfast, which won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour in 1994.
Tickets $5 @ UofT Bookstore, 214 College St. (Refunds Desk), or call 416-640-5836 (limited seating). A U of T Bookstore Reading Series event.
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11 / 4
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Start: 11/01/2008 - 20:00
End: 11/09/2008 - 00:00
Koffler Centre of the Arts proudly presents The Jewish Book Fair at the Leah Posluns Theatre, from November 1 to 9, 2008. One of the largest of its kind in North America, the Jewish Book Fair celebrates its 32nd year with a packed roster of international and local authors, talks, books, panel discussions, and events for all ages.
The 32nd Annual Jewish Book Fair kicks off on November 1 at 8 p.m. with Opening Night Feature ‘The Greatest Threats Faced by Israel Today’ – a talk by world renowned author and highly respected Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. Dershowitz will speak on his latest book, The Case Against Israel's Enemies.
Other authors speaking at this year’s Fair include:
Ronald Aronson, Living Without God
Start: 7:30 pm
Want to harness animation as a communication tool? At the launch of Animation Unleashed: 100 Principles Every Animator, Comic Book Writer, Filmmaker, Video Artist, and Game Developer Should Know (Michael Wiese Productions), veteran animator Ellen Besen will show clips from her extensive body of work to punctuate her discussion of what to do (and what to avoid). Also on the bill is a special demonstration of various animation techniques by Bryce Hallett, courtesy of Frog Feet productions– A This Is Not A Reading Series event presented by Pages Books & Magazines, Michael Wiese Productions, EYE WEEKLY and Take Five on CIUT.
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St W, Toronto
Tues, Nov 4; 7:30pm (doors 7pm) free
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11 / 5
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Start: 11/01/2008 - 20:00
End: 11/09/2008 - 00:00
Koffler Centre of the Arts proudly presents The Jewish Book Fair at the Leah Posluns Theatre, from November 1 to 9, 2008. One of the largest of its kind in North America, the Jewish Book Fair celebrates its 32nd year with a packed roster of international and local authors, talks, books, panel discussions, and events for all ages.
The 32nd Annual Jewish Book Fair kicks off on November 1 at 8 p.m. with Opening Night Feature ‘The Greatest Threats Faced by Israel Today’ – a talk by world renowned author and highly respected Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. Dershowitz will speak on his latest book, The Case Against Israel's Enemies.
Other authors speaking at this year’s Fair include:
Ronald Aronson, Living Without God
Start: 7:30 pm
Wednesday, Nov 5th 7:30 pm.
Rowers Pub, 150 Harbord Street, 2nd floor. (416-961-6277)
Free. (Pass the hat only.)
November Features:
Barry Dempster (The Burning Alphabet, Brick Books, 2005), Beatriz Hausner (The Wardrobe Mistress, Ekstasis Editions, 2003) and Marilyn Gear Pilling (Cleavage: a Life in Breasts, Black Moss Press, 2007). The Rowers Pub Reading Series acknowledges financial assistance from The Canada Council for the Arts through The Writers' Union of Canada; The League of Canadian Poets; and donations from Scott Griffin and Alexander McCall Smith.
For more information please visit: rowerspubreadingseries.com
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11 / 6
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Start: 11/01/2008 - 20:00
End: 11/09/2008 - 00:00
Koffler Centre of the Arts proudly presents The Jewish Book Fair at the Leah Posluns Theatre, from November 1 to 9, 2008. One of the largest of its kind in North America, the Jewish Book Fair celebrates its 32nd year with a packed roster of international and local authors, talks, books, panel discussions, and events for all ages.
The 32nd Annual Jewish Book Fair kicks off on November 1 at 8 p.m. with Opening Night Feature ‘The Greatest Threats Faced by Israel Today’ – a talk by world renowned author and highly respected Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. Dershowitz will speak on his latest book, The Case Against Israel's Enemies.
Other authors speaking at this year’s Fair include:
Ronald Aronson, Living Without God
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