Nathan Whitlock - A Week Of This: A Novel in Seven Days at TINARS

To celebrate the release of his widely anticipated first novel, A Week Of This: A Novel in Seven Days (ECW Press, 2008), Quill & Quire review editor Nathan Whitlock will deliver a comic mock lecture titled "Seven Steps To A Seven Day Novel". Also, musician Alex Lukashevsky — whom Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene has called "one of the best songwriters Canada's ever been blessed with" — will perform songs inspired by Whitlock's tale about the lives of an extended family over seven increasingly desperate days. A This Is Not A Reading Series event presented by Pages Books & Magazines, ECW Press and EYE WEEKLY. At the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto on Wednesday, April 16 at 7:30 p.m. (doors 7:00 p.m.). Admission free.

Nathan Whitlock was the winner of the inaugural Emerging Artist in Creative Writing Award and the Short Prose for Developing Writers Award, as well as runner-up for the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award. He is the review editor of Quill & Quire magazine. His writing and reviews have appeared in The Toronto Star, Saturday Night, The Globe and Mail, Maisonneuve, Toro, Geist, and elsewhere. He grew up in the Ottawa Valley and currently lives in Toronto with his wife and two children.

Alex Lukashevsky has been filling Toronto clubs with surreal sounds and wondrous words for close to ten years, most notably as bandleader for boisterous improv-rock ensemble Deep Dark United. Lukashevsky recently released a solo album, Connexions, on North East Indie.

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