2009 Launch of The Best Canadian Essays
Carefully selected by editors Carmine Starnino and Alex Boyd, The Best Canadian Essays 2009 (Tightrope Books) showcases fourteen exceptional essays published in Canadian magazines in 2008. These fourteen distinctive voices unite to represent the diversity and breadth of Canadian nonfiction writing today.
It's an important project, and first such collection of Canadian essays in around twenty years. The topics are as diverse as the environment and energy needs, parenting, theatre, fiction writing, changing attitudes to funerals, or women who make porn.
With readings from Nathan Whitlock, Alison Lee, and Kamal Al-Solaylee.
Hosted by Alex Boyd.
Door prizes from Good For Her.
http://www.goodforher.com/
With musical guest: Darin Yorston.
http://www.myspace.com/darinyo...
No cover: doors at 7, readings at 8.
