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SUMMARY:On Book Banning: Windsor Launch!
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the Windsor launch of On Book Banning by Ira Wells! Ira will be interviewed about his new book\, followed by an audience Q&A. Books will be available for sale and signing\, and snacks and drinks will be provided for this evening of lively discussion. \nThis event will take place at Biblioasis Bookshop on Thursday\, March 6 at 7PM EST. \nGrab On Book Banning here! \nABOUT ON BOOK BANNING \nThe freedom to read is under attack. \nFrom the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today’s state-sponsored efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ literature\, book bans arise from the impulse toward social control. In a survey of legal cases\, literary controversies\, and philosophical arguments\, Ira Wells illustrates the historical opposition to the freedom to read and argues that today’s conservatives and progressives alike are warping our children’s relationship with literature and teaching them that the solution to opposing viewpoints is outright expurgation. At a moment in which our democratic institutions are buckling under the stress of polarization\, On Book Banning is both rallying cry and guide to resistance for those who will always insist upon reading for themselves. \nABOUT IRA WELLS \nIra Wells is a critic\, essayist\, and an associate professor at Victoria College in the University of Toronto\, where he teaches in the Northrop Frye stream in literature and the humanities in the Vic One program. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic\, Globe and Mail\, Guardian\, The New Republic\, and many other venues. His most recent book is Norman Jewison: A Director’s Life. He lives in Toronto with his wife and children.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/on-book-banning-windsor-launch/
LOCATION:Biblioasis Bookshop\, 1520 Wyandotte St E\, Windsor\, ON\, N9A 3L2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Discussion,Reading
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SUMMARY:On Book Banning: Ira Wells at Words Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join Ira Wells as he speaks about his new book On Book Banning\, a lively\, accessible survey of the pressing question of literary censorship in our times of crisis and change\, in this virtual event with the Words Festival. Ira will be speaking in conversation with host Josh Lambier. \nThis free virtual event will take place on Tuesday\, March 4 at 7pm EST over Zoom. \nMore details and event link here. \nGrab On Book Banning here! \nABOUT ON BOOK BANNING \nThe freedom to read is under attack. \nFrom the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today’s state-sponsored efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ literature\, book bans arise from the impulse toward social control. In a survey of legal cases\, literary controversies\, and philosophical arguments\, Ira Wells illustrates the historical opposition to the freedom to read and argues that today’s conservatives and progressives alike are warping our children’s relationship with literature and teaching them that the solution to opposing viewpoints is outright expurgation. At a moment in which our democratic institutions are buckling under the stress of polarization\, On Book Banning is both rallying cry and guide to resistance for those who will always insist upon reading for themselves. \nABOUT IRA WELLS \nIra Wells is a critic\, essayist\, and an associate professor at Victoria College in the University of Toronto\, where he teaches in the Northrop Frye stream in literature and the humanities in the Vic One program. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic\, Globe and Mail\, Guardian\, The New Republic\, and many other venues. His most recent book is Norman Jewison: A Director’s Life. He lives in Toronto with his wife and children.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/on-book-banning-ira-wells-at-the-centre-for-free-expression-2/
LOCATION:ON
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Reading,Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20250227T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20250227T203000
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CREATED:20250207T195556Z
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SUMMARY:Freedom to Read Week with Ira Wells (On Book Banning)
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of Freedom to Read Week in Canada\, join Ira Wells\, author of On Book Banning: Or\, How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy\, for thought-provoking online conversation Dr. Shannon Murray\, held by Bookmark Bookstores. \nThis virtual event will take place on Thursday\, February 27 at 7PM ADT. Reserve your free ticket today here\, and you will be emailed a Zoom link on the morning of the event to the email you include with your registration. \nMore details here. \nGrab On Book Banning here! \nABOUT ON BOOK BANNING \nThe freedom to read is under attack. \nFrom the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today’s state-sponsored efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ literature\, book bans arise from the impulse toward social control. In a survey of legal cases\, literary controversies\, and philosophical arguments\, Ira Wells illustrates the historical opposition to the freedom to read and argues that today’s conservatives and progressives alike are warping our children’s relationship with literature and teaching them that the solution to opposing viewpoints is outright expurgation. At a moment in which our democratic institutions are buckling under the stress of polarization\, On Book Banning is both rallying cry and guide to resistance for those who will always insist upon reading for themselves. \nABOUT IRA WELLS \nIra Wells is a critic\, essayist\, and an associate professor at Victoria College in the University of Toronto\, where he teaches in the Northrop Frye stream in literature and the humanities in the Vic One program. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic\, Globe and Mail\, Guardian\, The New Republic\, and many other venues. His most recent book is Norman Jewison: A Director’s Life. He lives in Toronto with his wife and children.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/on-book-banning-ira-wells-freedom-to-read/
LOCATION:ON
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SUMMARY:Mark Kingwell at the Toronto Public Library
DESCRIPTION:Mark Kingwell will be discussing his new book Question Authority at the Toronto Public Library\, in conversation with host Randy Boyagoda. \nThe event is free\, and will take place on Thursday\, February 27 at 7PM in the Jack Rabinovitch Reading Room at the Toronto Reference Library. \nMore details here. \nGrab Question Authority here! \nABOUT QUESTION AUTHORITY \nPhilosopher Mark Kingwell thinks about thinking for yourself in an era of radical know-it-all-ism. \n“Question authority\,” the popular 1960s slogan commanded. “Think for yourself.” But what started as a counter-cultural catchphrase\, playful in logic but serious in intent\, has become a practical paradox. Yesterday’s social critics are the tone-policing tyrants of today\, while those who claim “colourblindness” see no need to engage with critical theory at all. The resulting crisis of authority\, made worse by rival political factions and chaotic public discourse\, has exposed cracks in every facet of shared social life. Politics\, academia\, journalism\, medicine\, religion\, science—every kind of institutional claim is now routinely subject to objection\, investigation\, and outright disbelief. A recurring feature of this comprehensive distrust of authority is the firm\, often unshakeable\, belief in personal righteousness and superiority: what Mark Kingwell calls our “addiction to conviction.” \nIn this critical survey of the predicament of contemporary authority\, Kingwell draws on philosophical argument\, personal reflection\, and details from the headlines in an attempt to reclaim the democratic spirit of questioning authority and thinking for oneself. Defending a program of compassionate skepticism\, Question Authority is a fascinating survey of the role of individual humility in public life and illuminates how we might each do our part in the infinite project of justice. \nABOUT MARK KINGWELL \nMark Kingwell is a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto\, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada\, and a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/mark-kingwell-at-the-toronto-public-library/
LOCATION:Toronto Reference Library\, 789 Yonge St\, Toronto\, ON\, M4W 2G8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Reading
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SUMMARY:On Book Banning: Ira Wells at the Centre for Free Expression
DESCRIPTION:Join Ira Wells\, author of On Book Banning\, in a Freedom to Read Week conversation with Centre for Free Expression Director James L. Turk\, at this time when censorship is becoming popular and pervasive. The event is co-sponsored by Canadian School Libraries\, Edmonton Public Library\, PEN Canada\, Toronto Public Library\, Vancouver Public Library. \nThis free virtual event will take place on Wednesday\, February 26 at 7pm EST. Zoom link to event: torontomu.zoom.us/j/91941276567 \nMore details here. \nGrab On Book Banning here! \nABOUT ON BOOK BANNING \nThe freedom to read is under attack. \nFrom the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today’s state-sponsored efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ literature\, book bans arise from the impulse toward social control. In a survey of legal cases\, literary controversies\, and philosophical arguments\, Ira Wells illustrates the historical opposition to the freedom to read and argues that today’s conservatives and progressives alike are warping our children’s relationship with literature and teaching them that the solution to opposing viewpoints is outright expurgation. At a moment in which our democratic institutions are buckling under the stress of polarization\, On Book Banning is both rallying cry and guide to resistance for those who will always insist upon reading for themselves. \nABOUT IRA WELLS \nIra Wells is a critic\, essayist\, and an associate professor at Victoria College in the University of Toronto\, where he teaches in the Northrop Frye stream in literature and the humanities in the Vic One program. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic\, Globe and Mail\, Guardian\, The New Republic\, and many other venues. His most recent book is Norman Jewison: A Director’s Life. He lives in Toronto with his wife and children.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/on-book-banning-ira-wells-at-the-centre-for-free-expression/
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250225T200000
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SUMMARY:Ira Wells at the Toronto Public Library
DESCRIPTION:As part of Freedom to Read Week\, Toronto Public Library presents critic\, essayist\, and associate professor at the University of Toronto\, Ira Wells to celebrate the publication of his new title On Book Banning: Or\, How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy\, in conversation with host Charles Foran. \nThe culture wars have found fertile ground within public schools and libraries. We’re witnessing a notable increase in book challenges and attempts to remove titles from bookshelves across North America and\, as we know\, this is nothing new. In On Book Banning\, Ira Wells argues that conservatives and progressives alike are teaching our children that the solution to opposing viewpoints is outright censorship. How might we collectively push back and help reinforce our personal freedom to read? And how do we ensure that our democratic spaces continue to be welcoming spaces for all viewpoints? \nThe event is free\, and will take place on Thursday\, February 27 at 7PM in the Jack Rabinovitch Reading Room at the Toronto Reference Library. \nMore details here. \nGrab On Book Banning here! \nABOUT ON BOOK BANNING \nThe freedom to read is under attack. \nFrom the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today’s state-sponsored efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ literature\, book bans arise from the impulse toward social control. In a survey of legal cases\, literary controversies\, and philosophical arguments\, Ira Wells illustrates the historical opposition to the freedom to read and argues that today’s conservatives and progressives alike are warping our children’s relationship with literature and teaching them that the solution to opposing viewpoints is outright expurgation. At a moment in which our democratic institutions are buckling under the stress of polarization\, On Book Banning is both rallying cry and guide to resistance for those who will always insist upon reading for themselves. \nABOUT IRA WELLS \nIra Wells is a critic\, essayist\, and an associate professor at Victoria College in the University of Toronto\, where he teaches in the Northrop Frye stream in literature and the humanities in the Vic One program. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic\, Globe and Mail\, Guardian\, The New Republic\, and many other venues. His most recent book is Norman Jewison: A Director’s Life. He lives in Toronto with his wife and children.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/ira-wells-at-the-toronto-public-library/
LOCATION:Toronto Reference Library\, 789 Yonge St\, Toronto\, ON\, M4W 2G8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Reading
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SUMMARY:Republic of Consciousness Prize (US/CAN) Virtual Longlist Party
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the Republic of Consciousness Prize (US/CAN) longlisting of Your Absence Is Darkness by Jón Kalman Stefánsson\, translated by Philip Roughton\, at this virtual longlist party!  The celebration is free and open to the public\, and will feature the six judges as hosts\, representatives from the longlisted presses as well as authors and translators reading from their works. There will also be a Q&A period. \nThe virtual celebration will take place over Zoom on February 19\, at 6PM CT / 7PM EST. Zoom link here. \nGrab Your Absence Is Darkness here. \nABOUT YOUR ABSENCE IS DARKNESS \nLonglisted for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness US and Canada Prize • A World Literature Today Notable Translation of 2024 • A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2024 \nA spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community\, by one of Iceland’s most beloved novelists.  \nA man comes to awareness in a cold church in the Icelandic countryside\, not knowing who he is\, why he’s there or how he arrived\, with a stranger staring mockingly from a few pews back. Startled by the man’s cryptic questions\, he leaves—and plunges into a history spanning centuries\, a past pressed into his genes that sinks him closer to some knowledge of himself. A city girl is drawn to the fjords by the memory of a blue-eyed gaze\, and a generation earlier\, a farmer’s wife writes an essay about earthworms that changes the course of lives. A pastor who writes letters to dead poets falls in love with a faraway stranger\, and a rock musician\, plagued by cosmic loneliness\, discovers that his past has been a lie. Faced with the violence of fate and the effects of choices\, made and avoided\, that cascade between them\, each discovers the cost of following the magnetic needle of the heart. \nIncandescent and elemental\, hope-filled and humane\, Your Absence Is Darkness is a comedy about mortality\, music\, and the strange salve of time\, and a spellbinding saga of death\, desire\, and the perfect agony of star-crossed love. \nABOUT JON KALMAN STEFANSSON \nJón Kalman Stefánsson’s novels have been nominated three times for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature\, and his novel Summer Light\, and Then Comes the Night received the Icelandic Prize for Literature in 2005. In 2011 he was awarded the prestigious P. O. Enquist Award. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy: Heaven and Hell\, The Sorrow of Angels (longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) and The Heart of Man (winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize). A subsequent novel\, Fish Have No Feet\, was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017. \nABOUT PHILIP ROUGHTON \nPhilip Roughton is a scholar of Old Norse and medieval literature and an award-winning translator of Icelandic literature\, having translated works by numerous writers including Halldór Laxness. He was the winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize for his translation of Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s The Heart of Man\, and shortlisted for the same prize for About the Size of the Universe.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/republic-of-consciousness-prize-us-can-virtual-longlist-party/
LOCATION:ON
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SUMMARY:Mark Anthony Jarman at the Florence Writers Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Mark Anthony Jarman\, author of Burn Man: Selected Stories will guide this workshop on Beginnings and Endings with focus on short stories\, although his lessons can be applied to other works too. Mark will lead participants through inspiring models and handy techniques from well-known short-story authors. Sponsored by Florence Literary Society\, this is a free ticketed event. \nThe workshop will take place at St. Mark’s Church in Firenze\, on Saturday\, February 8 at 10:30AM. Tickets available here. \nNote: due to space limitations\, only ticket-holders will be admitted. Should the event be sold-out\, a waitlist will be available. The first 30 minutes will be a meet and greet\, with time to learn more about Florence Literary Society and/or sign up for a membership. \nGrab Burn Man here! \nABOUT BURN MAN \nA Globe 100 Best Book of 2024 \nDrawing together the best of his short fiction published over the last four decades\, Burn Man: Selected Stories showcases Mark Anthony Jarman’s sharply observed characters and acrobatic\, voice-driven prose in stories that walk the tightrope between the commonplace and the mystical. With an insightful introduction from John Metcalf\, this revelatory selection highlights one of the most spirited and singular masters of the short story form. \nABOUT MARK ANTHONY JARMAN \nMark Anthony Jarman is the author of Touch Anywhere to Begin\, Czech Techno\, Knife Party at the Hotel Europa\, My White Planet\, 19 Knives\, New Orleans Is Sinking\, Dancing Nightly in the Tavern\, and the travel book Ireland’s Eye. He was an acquisitions editor for Oberon Press\, and introduced many new writers through the Coming Attractions series. He is also the editor of Best Canadian Stories 2023. His novel Salvage King Ya!\, is on Amazon.ca’s list of 50 Essential Canadian Books and is the number one book on Amazon’s list of best hockey fiction. Widely published in Canada\, the US\, Europe\, and Asia\, Jarman is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, a Yaddo fellow\, has taught at the University of Victoria\, the Banff Centre for the Arts\, and the University of New Brunswick\, where he has been fiction editor of The Fiddlehead literary journal since 1999. He is also co-editor of literary journal CAMEL.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/mark-anthony-jarman-at-the-florence-writers-workshop/
LOCATION:St. Mark’s Church\, Via Maggio 16\, Firenze\, Italy
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Question Authority: Mark Kingwell at Vanier College
DESCRIPTION:Mark Kingwell will be the keynote speaker at the Vanier College Humanities Symposium\, with a talk on his new book Question Authority: A Polemic About Trust in Five Meditations. Mark will discuss how to reclaim the democratic spirit of questioning authority and thinking. \nThe talk will take place on Wednesday\, February 5 at 1:30PM. Presentations will take place in the Vanier Auditorium\, A-103. \nMore details here. \nGrab Question Authority here! \nABOUT QUESTION AUTHORITY \nPhilosopher Mark Kingwell thinks about thinking for yourself in an era of radical know-it-all-ism. \n“Question authority\,” the popular 1960s slogan commanded. “Think for yourself.” But what started as a counter-cultural catchphrase\, playful in logic but serious in intent\, has become a practical paradox. Yesterday’s social critics are the tone-policing tyrants of today\, while those who claim “colourblindness” see no need to engage with critical theory at all. The resulting crisis of authority\, made worse by rival political factions and chaotic public discourse\, has exposed cracks in every facet of shared social life. Politics\, academia\, journalism\, medicine\, religion\, science—every kind of institutional claim is now routinely subject to objection\, investigation\, and outright disbelief. A recurring feature of this comprehensive distrust of authority is the firm\, often unshakeable\, belief in personal righteousness and superiority: what Mark Kingwell calls our “addiction to conviction.” \nIn this critical survey of the predicament of contemporary authority\, Kingwell draws on philosophical argument\, personal reflection\, and details from the headlines in an attempt to reclaim the democratic spirit of questioning authority and thinking for oneself. Defending a program of compassionate skepticism\, Question Authority is a fascinating survey of the role of individual humility in public life and illuminates how we might each do our part in the infinite project of justice. \nABOUT MARK KINGWELL \nMark Kingwell is a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto\, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada\, and a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/mark-kingwell-at-vanier-college/
LOCATION:Vanier College\, Vanier Auditorium A-103\, 821 avenue Sainte-Croix\, Montréal\, QC\, H4L 3X9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Author Series,Discussion
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SUMMARY:Behind the Scenes at Canada Reads with Catherine Leroux
DESCRIPTION:Catherine Leroux\, author of The Future\, will be in conversation with CBC Canada Reads producer Lucy Mann to discuss the book’s 2024 Canada Reads win. \nThe discussion will take place at the Women’s Canadian Club of Montreal on Tuesday\, November 19 at 12:30PM. \nMore details here. \nGrab a copy of The Future here! \nABOUT THE FUTURE \nWinner of Canada Reads 2024 • Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction • One of Tor.com’s Can’t Miss Speculative Fiction for Fall 2023 • Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 • One of Kirkus Reviews’ Fall 2023 Big Books By Small Presses • A Kirkus Reviews Work of Translated Fiction To Read Now • One of CBC Books Best Books of 2023 • A CBC Books Bestselling Canadian Book of the Week \nIn an alternate history of Detroit\, the Motor City was never surrendered to the US. Its residents deal with pollution\, poverty\, and the legacy of racism—and strange and magical things are happening: children rule over their own kingdom in the trees and burned houses regenerate themselves. When Gloria arrives looking for answers and her missing granddaughters\, at first she finds only a hungry mouse in the derelict home where her daughter was murdered. But the neighbours take pity on her and she turns to their resilience and impressive gardens for sustenance. \nWhen a strange intuition sends Gloria into the woods of Parc Rouge\, where the city’s orphaned and abandoned children are rumored to have created their own society\, she can’t imagine the strength she will find. A richly imagined story of community and a plea for persistence in the face of our uncertain future\, The Future is a lyrical testament to the power we hold to protect the people and places we love—together. \nABOUT CATHERINE LEROUX \nCatherine Leroux is a Quebec novelist\, translator and editor born in 1979. Her novel Le mur mitoyen won the France-Quebec Prize and its English version\, The Party Wall\, was nominated for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The Future won CBC’s Canada Reads 2024\, received the Jacques-Brossard award for speculative fiction and was nominated for the Quebec Booksellers Prize. Catherine also won the 2019 Governor General’s Literary Award for her translation of Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien. Two of her novels are currently being adapted for the screen. Her latest book\, Peuple de verre\, a speculative novel about the housing crisis\, came out in April 2024. She lives in Montreal with her two children.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/behind-the-scenes-at-canada-reads-with-catherine-leroux/
LOCATION:Women’s Canadian Club of Montreal\, 4626 Sherbrooke St W\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 2Z8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20241109T220000
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SUMMARY:Catherine Leroux at AfterWords Festival: Fantastic Ideas
DESCRIPTION:Join Catherine Leroux\, author of Canada Reads-winning The Future\, at the AfterWords Festival’s event\, “Fantastic Ideas.” Catherine will be reuniting with her Canada Reads champion Heather O’Neill in conversation about their their respective dark fairy tales The Future and The Capital of Dreams. The event will also feature readings from Elizabeth Renzetti\, Charlene Carr\, and Anne Fleming. \nThe event will take place on Saturday\, November 9 at 7PM. \nMore details here. \nGrab a copy of The Future here! \nABOUT THE FUTURE \nWinner of Canada Reads 2024 • Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction • One of Tor.com’s Can’t Miss Speculative Fiction for Fall 2023 • Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 • One of Kirkus Reviews’ Fall 2023 Big Books By Small Presses • A Kirkus Reviews Work of Translated Fiction To Read Now • One of CBC Books Best Books of 2023 • A CBC Books Bestselling Canadian Book of the Week \nIn an alternate history of Detroit\, the Motor City was never surrendered to the US. Its residents deal with pollution\, poverty\, and the legacy of racism—and strange and magical things are happening: children rule over their own kingdom in the trees and burned houses regenerate themselves. When Gloria arrives looking for answers and her missing granddaughters\, at first she finds only a hungry mouse in the derelict home where her daughter was murdered. But the neighbours take pity on her and she turns to their resilience and impressive gardens for sustenance. \nWhen a strange intuition sends Gloria into the woods of Parc Rouge\, where the city’s orphaned and abandoned children are rumored to have created their own society\, she can’t imagine the strength she will find. A richly imagined story of community and a plea for persistence in the face of our uncertain future\, The Future is a lyrical testament to the power we hold to protect the people and places we love—together. \nABOUT CATHERINE LEROUX \nCatherine Leroux is a Quebec novelist\, translator and editor born in 1979. Her novel Le mur mitoyen won the France-Quebec Prize and its English version\, The Party Wall\, was nominated for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The Future won CBC’s Canada Reads 2024\, received the Jacques-Brossard award for speculative fiction and was nominated for the Quebec Booksellers Prize. Catherine also won the 2019 Governor General’s Literary Award for her translation of Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien. Two of her novels are currently being adapted for the screen. Her latest book\, Peuple de verre\, a speculative novel about the housing crisis\, came out in April 2024. She lives in Montreal with her two children.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/catherine-leroux-at-afterwords-festival-fantastic-ideas/
LOCATION:Bus Stop Theatre\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival,Reading
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SUMMARY:Caroline Adderson at AfterWords Festival: Open Secrets
DESCRIPTION:Caroline Adderson (A Way to Be Happy) we be joining the AfterWords Festival’s event\, “Open Secrets.” \nWhen Andrea Skinner wrote in the Toronto Star about being assaulted by her stepfather when she was a child\, and about how her mother chose to stay with the man instead of to stand by her daughter\, many survivors saw their own experience reflected in her story and felt the reverberations. At the same time\, Alice Munro’s daughters asked readers to continue engaging with their mother’s work\, but through a new lens. \nIn this two-part conversation\, Caroline Adderson\, Heather O’Neill\, and Deepa Rajagoplan join journalist Sarah Hampson to talk about how they’re reading Alice Munro now. Then\, poet Sue Goyette presents new and recent work that dives deeply into her own experience in an unsafe house\, and how trauma moves through image and language on the page. \nThe event will take place on Thursday\, November 8 at 12:30PM. \nProceeds for this event go to Avalon Sexual Assault Centre. Content note: CSA \nRegistration and more details here. \nGet A Way to Be Happy here! \nABOUT A WAY TO BE HAPPY \nLonglisted for the 2024 Giller Prize \nShort stories about disparate characters consider what it means to find happiness. \nOn New Year’s Eve\, a pair of addicts robs a string of high-end parties in order to fund their own recovery. A recently separated woman relocates to a small northern town\, where she receives a life-changing visitation\, and a Russian hitman\, suffering from a mysterious lung ailment\, retrieves long-buried memories of his past. In the nineteenth century\, a disparate group of women coalesce in the attempt to aid a young girl in her escape from a hospital for the insane. These are but some of the remarkable characters who populate these stories\, all of them grappling with conflicts ranging from mundane to extraordinary. Caroline Adderson’s A Way to Be Happy considers what it means to find happiness—and how often it comes through the grace of others. \nABOUT CAROLINE ADDERSON \nCaroline Adderson is the author of five novels (A Russian Sister\, Ellen in Pieces\, The Sky Is Falling\, Sitting Practice\, and A History of Forgetting)\, two previous collections of short stories (Pleased to Meet You and Bad Imaginings)\, as well as many books for young readers. Her award nominations include the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award\, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\, two Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes\, the Governor General’s Literary Award\, the Rogers’ Trust Fiction Prize\, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. The recipient of three BC Book Prizes\, three CBC Literary Awards\, and the Marian Engel Award for mid-career achievement\, Caroline lives and writes in Vancouver.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/caroline-adderson-at-afterwords-festival-open-secrets/
LOCATION:The Carleton\, 1685 Argyle St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:Caroline Adderson at AfterWords Festival: Long Short Story
DESCRIPTION:Caroline Adderson will be reading from her Giller-longlisted story collection\, A Way to Be Happy\, at the AfterWords Festival’s event\, “Long Short Story.” Caroline will be in conversation with fellow short story writer Alexander MacLeod about her latest collection\, and will also be joined in reading by Elliott Gish\, Fawn Parker\, and Deepa Rajagoplan. \nThe event will take place on Thursday\, November 7 at 7PM. \nMore details here. \nGet A Way to Be Happy here! \nABOUT A WAY TO BE HAPPY \nLonglisted for the 2024 Giller Prize \nShort stories about disparate characters consider what it means to find happiness. \nOn New Year’s Eve\, a pair of addicts robs a string of high-end parties in order to fund their own recovery. A recently separated woman relocates to a small northern town\, where she receives a life-changing visitation\, and a Russian hitman\, suffering from a mysterious lung ailment\, retrieves long-buried memories of his past. In the nineteenth century\, a disparate group of women coalesce in the attempt to aid a young girl in her escape from a hospital for the insane. These are but some of the remarkable characters who populate these stories\, all of them grappling with conflicts ranging from mundane to extraordinary. Caroline Adderson’s A Way to Be Happy considers what it means to find happiness—and how often it comes through the grace of others. \nABOUT CAROLINE ADDERSON \nCaroline Adderson is the author of five novels (A Russian Sister\, Ellen in Pieces\, The Sky Is Falling\, Sitting Practice\, and A History of Forgetting)\, two previous collections of short stories (Pleased to Meet You and Bad Imaginings)\, as well as many books for young readers. Her award nominations include the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award\, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\, two Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes\, the Governor General’s Literary Award\, the Rogers’ Trust Fiction Prize\, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. The recipient of three BC Book Prizes\, three CBC Literary Awards\, and the Marian Engel Award for mid-career achievement\, Caroline lives and writes in Vancouver.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/caroline-adderson-at-afterwords-festival-long-short-story/
LOCATION:Bus Stop Theatre\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival,Reading
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SUMMARY:Richard Kelly Kemick at Fraser Valley Writers Fest
DESCRIPTION:Richard Kelly Kemick\, author of the short story collection Hello\, Horse\, will be appearing at the Fraser Valley Writers Fest for the panel “Revise.” Richard will be joined by Carleigh Baker\, Anita Lahey\, and Loghan Paylor for discussions on new writing\, chaired by award-winning writer Adrienne Gruber\, followed by a Q&A. \nThe event will take place in the Evered Hall\, Student Union Building on Saturday\, November 2 at 11am. \nMore details here. \nGet Hello\, Horse here! \nABOUT HELLO\, HORSE \nTaut\, stylish stories take on big moral questions from surprising perspectives. \nA teenager’s job mucking stalls at a dog track takes a strange turn when his co-worker finds a new religion at odds with winning streaks. Two brothers set out in search of fame upon the frozen waters of a subarctic lake. After her mother’s death\, a high school student tries to make rent by winning the Unitarian Church’s Annual Young Writer’s Short Story Competition. An incarcerated man considers the nature of justice between shifts with his fellow inmates at Nations at War\, the ultimate live-action experience for tourists eager to learn about the Canadian Civil War. \nSpanning states and provinces\, and featuring an apocalypse\, a coterie of ghosts\, nuns on ice\, and an above-average number of dogs\, the stories in Hello\, Horse consider the mirage of authenticity and the impact of decisions we make—for better and for worse. \nABOUT RICHARD KELLY KEMICK \nRichard Kelly Kemick is an award-winning poet\, journalist\, and fiction writer. His limited series podcast\, Natural Life\, is an intimate and unexpectedly honest documentary on his cousin\, who is serving a life sentence without parole in Michigan. Richard is also the author of I Am Herod (also on audiobook)\, which takes readers undercover at one of the world’s largest religious events\, and Caribou Run\, a collection of poetry. He is the recipient of multiple awards including two National Magazine Awards and the Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s 2019 Award for Best Short Story. He lives in Vancouver\, British Columbia. \n 
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/richard-kelly-kemick-at-fraser-valley-writers-fest/
LOCATION:University of the Fraser Valley\, 33844 King Rd\, Abbotsford\, BC\, V2S 7M7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:Emily Urquhart at Trident Booksellers & Cafe
DESCRIPTION:Emily Urquhart will be reading from her Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize-shortlisted essay collection\, Ordinary Wonder Tales\, at Trident Booksellers & Cafe in Halifax! The reading and conversation is hosted by the Dalhousie Creative Writing Program. There will be an array of treats\, and books will be for sale and signing from King’s Co-op Bookstore. \nThe event will take place on Wednesday\, October 30 at 5PM. \nMore details here. \nGrab Ordinary Wonder Tales here! \nABOUT ORDINARY WONDER TALES \nShortlisted for the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction \nA journalist and folklorist explores the truths that underlie the stories we imagine—and reveals the magic in the everyday. \n“I’ve always felt that the term fairy tale doesn’t quite capture the essence of these stories\,” writes Emily Urquhart. “I prefer the term wonder tale\, which is Irish in origin\, for its suggestion of awe coupled with narrative. In a way\, this is most of our stories.” In this startlingly original essay collection\, Urquhart reveals the truths that underlie our imaginings: what we see in our heads when we read\, how the sight of a ghost can heal\, how the entrance to the underworld can be glimpsed in an oil painting or a winter storm—or the onset of a loved one’s dementia. In essays on death and dying\, pregnancy and prenatal genetics\, radioactivity\, chimeras\, cottagers\, and plague\, Ordinary Wonder Tales reveals the essential truth: if you let yourself look closely\, there is magic in the everyday. \nABOUT EMILY URQUHART \nEmily Urquhart is the author of three books of nonfiction including the essay collection\, Ordinary Wonder Tales\, a finalist for the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. She has a background in journalism and a doctorate in folklore and draws on both in her writing. She is a five-time National Magazine Award nominee for her journalistic work and has won gold and silver. She lives in Kitchener\, Ontario with her husband and two children where she is a nonfiction editor for The New Quarterly and teaches creative writing and science communication at the University of Waterloo.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/emily-urquhart-at-trident-booksellers-cafe/
LOCATION:Trident Booksellers & Cafe\, 1256 Hollis Street\, Halifax\, NS\, B3J 1T6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Reading
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SUMMARY:Jón Kalman Stefánsson at the National Nordic Museum (Seattle)
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning Icelandic novelist Jón Kalman Stefánsson will be appearing at the National Nordic Museum for a discussion of his novel\, Your Absence Is Darkness\, translated from Icelandic by Philip Roughton. Stefánsson will be joined in conversation by translator Dr. Elizabeth DeNoma followed by an audience Q&A. Books will be available for sale and signing from Third Place Books. \nThe event will take place on Tuesday\, October 29 at 6PM. \nTickets and more details here. \nGrab a copy of Your Absence Is Darkness here! \nABOUT YOUR ABSENCE IS DARKNESS \nA spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community\, by one of Iceland’s most beloved novelists.  \nA man comes to awareness in a cold church in the Icelandic countryside\, not knowing who he is\, why he’s there or how he arrived\, with a stranger staring mockingly from a few pews back. Startled by the man’s cryptic questions\, he leaves—and plunges into a history spanning centuries\, a past pressed into his genes that sinks him closer to some knowledge of himself. A city girl is drawn to the fjords by the memory of a blue-eyed gaze\, and a generation earlier\, a farmer’s wife writes an essay about earthworms that changes the course of lives. A pastor who writes letters to dead poets falls in love with a faraway stranger\, and a rock musician\, plagued by cosmic loneliness\, discovers that his past has been a lie. Faced with the violence of fate and the effects of choices\, made and avoided\, that cascade between them\, each discovers the cost of following the magnetic needle of the heart. \nIncandescent and elemental\, hope-filled and humane\, Your Absence Is Darkness is a comedy about mortality\, music\, and the strange salve of time\, and a spellbinding saga of death\, desire\, and the perfect agony of star-crossed love. \nABOUT JON KALMAN STEFANSSON \nJón Kalman Stefánsson’s novels have been nominated three times for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature\, and his novel Summer Light\, and Then Comes the Night received the Icelandic Prize for Literature in 2005. In 2011 he was awarded the prestigious P. O. Enquist Award. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy: Heaven and Hell\, The Sorrow of Angels (longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) and The Heart of Man (winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize). A subsequent novel\, Fish Have No Feet\, was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/jon-kalman-stefansson-at-the-national-nordic-museum/
LOCATION:National Nordic Museum\, 2655 NW Market St\, Seattle\, WA\, 98107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Discussion
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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241026T220000
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SUMMARY:Jón Kalman Stefánsson at Vancouver Writers Fest: The Literary Cabaret
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning Icelandic novelist Jón Kalman Stefánsson\, author of Your Absence Is Darkness\, trans. by Philip Roughton\, will be at Vancouver Writers Fest for the Literary Cabaret! Jón will be joined by fellow authors Roddy Doyle\, Anne Enright\, Richard Powers\, Brandon Taylor\, and Ayelet Tsabari. At the helm of the Vancouver Writers Fest flagship event is Musical Director Benjamin Millman\, and his band\, The Oxymorons. \nThe event will be at Performance Works on Saturday\, October 26 at 8PM. \nMore details here. \nGrab a copy of Your Absence Is Darkness here! \nABOUT YOUR ABSENCE IS DARKNESS \nA spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community\, by one of Iceland’s most beloved novelists.  \nA man comes to awareness in a cold church in the Icelandic countryside\, not knowing who he is\, why he’s there or how he arrived\, with a stranger staring mockingly from a few pews back. Startled by the man’s cryptic questions\, he leaves—and plunges into a history spanning centuries\, a past pressed into his genes that sinks him closer to some knowledge of himself. A city girl is drawn to the fjords by the memory of a blue-eyed gaze\, and a generation earlier\, a farmer’s wife writes an essay about earthworms that changes the course of lives. A pastor who writes letters to dead poets falls in love with a faraway stranger\, and a rock musician\, plagued by cosmic loneliness\, discovers that his past has been a lie. Faced with the violence of fate and the effects of choices\, made and avoided\, that cascade between them\, each discovers the cost of following the magnetic needle of the heart. \nIncandescent and elemental\, hope-filled and humane\, Your Absence Is Darkness is a comedy about mortality\, music\, and the strange salve of time\, and a spellbinding saga of death\, desire\, and the perfect agony of star-crossed love. \nABOUT JON KALMAN STEFANSSON \nJón Kalman Stefánsson’s novels have been nominated three times for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature\, and his novel Summer Light\, and Then Comes the Night received the Icelandic Prize for Literature in 2005. In 2011 he was awarded the prestigious P. O. Enquist Award. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy: Heaven and Hell\, The Sorrow of Angels (longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) and The Heart of Man (winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize). A subsequent novel\, Fish Have No Feet\, was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/jon-kalman-stefansson-at-vancouver-writers-fest-2/
LOCATION:Performance Works\, 1218 Cartwright Street\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6H 3R9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:Jón Kalman Stefánsson at Vancouver Writers Fest: The Conversations
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning Icelandic novelist Jón Kalman Stefánsson\, author of Your Absence Is Darkness\, trans. by Philip Roughton\, will be at Vancouver Writers Fest for the panel “The Conversations.” Jón will be joined by Anne Enright and Myriam J. A. Chancy for a discussion moderated by Aislinn Hunter (Best Canadian Poetry 2025). Back-to-back conversations with the three international authors probe the writing life and bring up questions about love\, intergenerational bonds\, and possibility.  \nThe event will be at the Granville Island Stage on Friday\, October 25 at 1PM. \nMore details here. \nGrab a copy of Your Absence Is Darkness here! \nABOUT YOUR ABSENCE IS DARKNESS \nA spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community\, by one of Iceland’s most beloved novelists.  \nA man comes to awareness in a cold church in the Icelandic countryside\, not knowing who he is\, why he’s there or how he arrived\, with a stranger staring mockingly from a few pews back. Startled by the man’s cryptic questions\, he leaves—and plunges into a history spanning centuries\, a past pressed into his genes that sinks him closer to some knowledge of himself. A city girl is drawn to the fjords by the memory of a blue-eyed gaze\, and a generation earlier\, a farmer’s wife writes an essay about earthworms that changes the course of lives. A pastor who writes letters to dead poets falls in love with a faraway stranger\, and a rock musician\, plagued by cosmic loneliness\, discovers that his past has been a lie. Faced with the violence of fate and the effects of choices\, made and avoided\, that cascade between them\, each discovers the cost of following the magnetic needle of the heart. \nIncandescent and elemental\, hope-filled and humane\, Your Absence Is Darkness is a comedy about mortality\, music\, and the strange salve of time\, and a spellbinding saga of death\, desire\, and the perfect agony of star-crossed love. \nABOUT JON KALMAN STEFANSSON \nJón Kalman Stefánsson’s novels have been nominated three times for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature\, and his novel Summer Light\, and Then Comes the Night received the Icelandic Prize for Literature in 2005. In 2011 he was awarded the prestigious P. O. Enquist Award. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy: Heaven and Hell\, The Sorrow of Angels (longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) and The Heart of Man (winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize). A subsequent novel\, Fish Have No Feet\, was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/jon-kalman-stefansson-at-vancouver-writers-fest-1/
LOCATION:Granville Island Stage\, 1585 Johnston Street\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6H 3R9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:Best Canadian Poetry 2025: Vancouver Writers Fest
DESCRIPTION:Aislinn Hunter\, editor of this year’s Best Canadian Poetry 2025 anthology\, will be hosting “The Poetry Bash” event at Vancouver Writer’s Fest! Poets joining the event include Evelyn Lau\, contributor to and representative of Best Canadian Poetry 2025\, alongside fellow poets Stephen Collis\, Jess Housty\, Zehra Naqvi\, Michael Turner\, shō yamagushiku\, and Daniel Zomparelli. Entrancing\, surprising\, and memorable: The Poetry Bash is a gateway to discovering new-to-you poets or hearing your favourites. \nThe event will take place on Thursday\, October 24 at 8:30PM. \nTickets and more details here. \nGrab Best Canadian Poetry 2025 here! \nABOUT BEST CANADIAN POETRY 2025 \nSelected by editor Aislinn Hunter\, the 2025 edition of Best Canadian Poetry showcases the best Canadian poetry writing published in 2023. \nFeaturing: \nHollie Adams • George Amabile • Erin Bedford • Billy-Ray Belcourt • Bertrand Bickersteth • Elisabeth Blair • Ronna Bloom • Alison Braid-Fernandez • Robert Bringhurst • Emily Cann • Anne Carson • Molly Cross-Blanchard • Lorna Crozier • Kayla Czaga • Evelyna Ekoko-Kay • Kate Genevieve • Susan Gillis • Sue Goyette • Catherine Graham • Henry Heavyshield • Gerald Hill • Alexander Hollenberg • Kim June Johnson • Eve Joseph • Evelyn Lau • Y. S. Lee • D. A. Lockhart • Fareh Malik • David Martin • Domenica Martinello • Cassidy McFadzean • Carmelita McGrath • Erín Moure • Tolu Oloruntoba • Catherine Owen • Molly Peacock • Miranda Pearson • Pauline Peters • Amanda Proctor • Shannon Quinn • Armand Garnet Ruffo • Anne Simpson • Carolyn Smart • Karen Solie • Catherine St. Denis • Owen Torrey • Michael Trussler • Sara Truuvert • Rob Winger • Jaeyun Yoo \nABOUT AISLINN HUNTER \nAislinn Hunter is an award-winning poet and novelist living on the unceded and ancestral lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Her most recent book of poetry is Linger\, Still (Gaspereau Press)\, winner of the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/best-canadian-poetry-2025-vancouver-writers-fest/
LOCATION:Performance Works\, 1218 Cartwright Street\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6H 3R9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival,Reading
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SUMMARY:Jón Kalman Stefánsson at McNally Robinson (Grant Park)
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning Icelandic novelist Jón Kalman Stefánsson\, author of Your Absence Is Darkness\, trans. by Philip Roughton\, will be at McNally Robinson Booksellers\, Grant Park. Jón will be in conversation with McNally Robinson co-owner Chris Hall\, for this event co-presented by the Consulate General of Iceland in Winnipeg\, the Icelandic Canadian Frón\, and Lögberg-Heimskringla. \nThe event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers\, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream\, on Wednesday\, October 23 at 7PM. \nMore details here. \nGrab a copy of Your Absence Is Darkness here! \nABOUT YOUR ABSENCE IS DARKNESS \nA spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community\, by one of Iceland’s most beloved novelists.  \nA man comes to awareness in a cold church in the Icelandic countryside\, not knowing who he is\, why he’s there or how he arrived\, with a stranger staring mockingly from a few pews back. Startled by the man’s cryptic questions\, he leaves—and plunges into a history spanning centuries\, a past pressed into his genes that sinks him closer to some knowledge of himself. A city girl is drawn to the fjords by the memory of a blue-eyed gaze\, and a generation earlier\, a farmer’s wife writes an essay about earthworms that changes the course of lives. A pastor who writes letters to dead poets falls in love with a faraway stranger\, and a rock musician\, plagued by cosmic loneliness\, discovers that his past has been a lie. Faced with the violence of fate and the effects of choices\, made and avoided\, that cascade between them\, each discovers the cost of following the magnetic needle of the heart. \nIncandescent and elemental\, hope-filled and humane\, Your Absence Is Darkness is a comedy about mortality\, music\, and the strange salve of time\, and a spellbinding saga of death\, desire\, and the perfect agony of star-crossed love. \nABOUT JON KALMAN STEFANSSON \nJón Kalman Stefánsson’s novels have been nominated three times for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature\, and his novel Summer Light\, and Then Comes the Night received the Icelandic Prize for Literature in 2005. In 2011 he was awarded the prestigious P. O. Enquist Award. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy: Heaven and Hell\, The Sorrow of Angels (longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) and The Heart of Man (winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize). A subsequent novel\, Fish Have No Feet\, was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/jon-kalman-stefansson-at-mcnally-robinson/
LOCATION:McNally Robinson – Grant Park\, 1120 Grant Ave\, Unit 4000\, Winnipeg\, MB\, R3M 2A6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion
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SUMMARY:Luke Hathaway at the Antler River Poetry Series
DESCRIPTION:Join Luke Hathaway\, author of The Affirmations\, for the Antler River Poetry Series\, alongside fellow poet Sarah Burgoyne. Attendees are encouraged to wear a mask to protect vulnerable members of the community. \nThe readings will take place at the Landon Branch of the London Public Library on Wednesday\, October 23 at 7PM. \nMore details here. \nGet The Affirmations here! \nABOUT THE AFFIRMATIONS \nShortlisted for the 2023 J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award • Winner of the 2021 Confederation Poets Prize • One of The Times’ Best Poetry Books of 2022 • A CBC Best Poetry Book of 2022 • Nominated for the 2023 ReLit Award for Poetry \nThe mystics who coined the phrase ‘the way of affirmation’ understood the apocalyptic nature of the word yes\, the way it can lead out of one life and into another. Moving among the languages of Christian conversion\, Classical metamorphosis\, seasonal transformation\, and gender transition\, Luke Hathaway tells the story of the love that rewired his being\, asking each of us to experience the transfiguration that can follow upon saying yes—with all one’s heart\, with all one’s soul\, with all one’s mind\, with all one’s strength . . . and with all one’s body\, too. \nABOUT LUKE HATHAWAY \nLuke Hathaway is a trans poet who teaches English and Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s University in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. He has been before now at some time boy and girl\, bush\, bird\, and a mute fish in the sea. His book Years\, Months\, and Days was named a best book of 2018 in the New York Times. He mentors new librettists as a faculty member in the Amadeus Choir’s Choral Composition Lab\, and makes music with Daniel Cabena as part of the metamorphosing ensemble ANIMA.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/luke-hathaway-at-the-antler-river-poetry-series/
LOCATION:Landon Branch London Public Library\, 167 Wortley Road\, London\, ON\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Author Series,Discussion,Reading
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SUMMARY:Caroline Adderson at Vancouver Writers Fest
DESCRIPTION:Join Caroline Adderson\, author of Giller-longlisted A Way to Be Happy (Sep 10\, 2024) at Vancouver Writers Fest for the reading event “Short Stories\, Infinite Identities.” Caroline will be in conversation with authors Shashi Bhat and Aaron Kreuter\, for this event moderated by Shaena Lambert. \nGood short stories can share expansive truths with the smallest details. Each of these authors offer mesmerizing insights into what it means to be human in their collections. Discover more about the intricate craft of short stories\, which offers a necessary tapestry of humanity. \nThe event will take place on Wednesday\, October 23 at 5:30 PM. \nTickets and more details here. \nGrab A Way to Be Happy here! \nABOUT A WAY TO BE HAPPY \nLonglisted for the 2024 Giller Prize \nShort stories about disparate characters consider what it means to find happiness. \nOn New Year’s Eve\, a pair of addicts robs a string of high-end parties in order to fund their own recovery. A recently separated woman relocates to a small northern town\, where she receives a life-changing visitation\, and a Russian hitman\, suffering from a mysterious lung ailment\, retrieves long-buried memories of his past. In the nineteenth century\, a disparate group of women coalesce in the attempt to aid a young girl in her escape from a hospital for the insane. These are but some of the remarkable characters who populate these stories\, all of them grappling with conflicts ranging from mundane to extraordinary. Caroline Adderson’s A Way to Be Happy considers what it means to find happiness—and how often it comes through the grace of others. \nABOUT CAROLINE ADDERSON \nCaroline Adderson is the author of five novels (A Russian Sister\, Ellen in Pieces\, The Sky Is Falling\, Sitting Practice\, and A History of Forgetting)\, two previous collections of short stories (Pleased to Meet You and Bad Imaginings)\, as well as many books for young readers. Her award nominations include the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award\, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\, two Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes\, the Governor General’s Literary Award\, the Rogers’ Trust Fiction Prize\, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. The recipient of three BC Book Prizes\, three CBC Literary Awards\, and the Marian Engel Award for mid-career achievement\, Caroline lives and writes in Vancouver.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/caroline-adderson-at-vancouver-writers-fest/
LOCATION:Performance Works\, 1218 Cartwright Street\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6H 3R9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:Jón Kalman Stefánsson in New York City
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning Icelandic novelist Jón Kalman Stefánsson will be at the Scandinavia House in New York City\, for a conversation about his new novel\, translated by Philip Roughton\, Your Absence Is Darkness. \nThe event will take place on Tuesday\, October 22 at 7PM. \nRegistration and more details here. \nGrab a copy of Your Absence Is Darkness here! \nABOUT YOUR ABSENCE IS DARKNESS \nA spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community\, by one of Iceland’s most beloved novelists.  \nA man comes to awareness in a cold church in the Icelandic countryside\, not knowing who he is\, why he’s there or how he arrived\, with a stranger staring mockingly from a few pews back. Startled by the man’s cryptic questions\, he leaves—and plunges into a history spanning centuries\, a past pressed into his genes that sinks him closer to some knowledge of himself. A city girl is drawn to the fjords by the memory of a blue-eyed gaze\, and a generation earlier\, a farmer’s wife writes an essay about earthworms that changes the course of lives. A pastor who writes letters to dead poets falls in love with a faraway stranger\, and a rock musician\, plagued by cosmic loneliness\, discovers that his past has been a lie. Faced with the violence of fate and the effects of choices\, made and avoided\, that cascade between them\, each discovers the cost of following the magnetic needle of the heart. \nIncandescent and elemental\, hope-filled and humane\, Your Absence Is Darkness is a comedy about mortality\, music\, and the strange salve of time\, and a spellbinding saga of death\, desire\, and the perfect agony of star-crossed love. \nABOUT JON KALMAN STEFANSSON \nJón Kalman Stefánsson’s novels have been nominated three times for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature\, and his novel Summer Light\, and Then Comes the Night received the Icelandic Prize for Literature in 2005. In 2011 he was awarded the prestigious P. O. Enquist Award. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy: Heaven and Hell\, The Sorrow of Angels (longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) and The Heart of Man (winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize). A subsequent novel\, Fish Have No Feet\, was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/jon-kalman-stefansson-in-new-york-city/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Discussion
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SUMMARY:Caroline Adderson at Whistler Writers Fest: Sunday BookTalk and Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:Join Caroline Adderson\, author of Giller-longlisted A Way to Be Happy (Sep 10\, 2024) at Whistler Writers Fest for the reading event “Sunday BookTalk and Breakfast.” Caroline will be moderating a conversation between authors Conor Kerr\, Bob McDonald\, and Leanne Toshiko Simpson in a conversation about their new releases. \nThe event will take place on Sunday\, October 20 at 10:45AM. \nMore details here. \nGrab A Way to Be Happy here! \nABOUT A WAY TO BE HAPPY \nLonglisted for the 2024 Giller Prize \nShort stories about disparate characters consider what it means to find happiness. \nOn New Year’s Eve\, a pair of addicts robs a string of high-end parties in order to fund their own recovery. A recently separated woman relocates to a small northern town\, where she receives a life-changing visitation\, and a Russian hitman\, suffering from a mysterious lung ailment\, retrieves long-buried memories of his past. In the nineteenth century\, a disparate group of women coalesce in the attempt to aid a young girl in her escape from a hospital for the insane. These are but some of the remarkable characters who populate these stories\, all of them grappling with conflicts ranging from mundane to extraordinary. Caroline Adderson’s A Way to Be Happy considers what it means to find happiness—and how often it comes through the grace of others. \nABOUT CAROLINE ADDERSON \nCaroline Adderson is the author of five novels (A Russian Sister\, Ellen in Pieces\, The Sky Is Falling\, Sitting Practice\, and A History of Forgetting)\, two previous collections of short stories (Pleased to Meet You and Bad Imaginings)\, as well as many books for young readers. Her award nominations include the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award\, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\, two Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes\, the Governor General’s Literary Award\, the Rogers’ Trust Fiction Prize\, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. The recipient of three BC Book Prizes\, three CBC Literary Awards\, and the Marian Engel Award for mid-career achievement\, Caroline lives and writes in Vancouver.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/caroline-adderson-at-whistler-writers-fest-2/
LOCATION:Fairmont Chateau Whistler\, 4599 Chateau Blvd\, Whistler\, BC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:Caroline Adderson at Whistler Writers Fest: A Conversation with Writers of Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Join Caroline Adderson\, author of Giller-longlisted A Way to Be Happy (Sep 10\, 2024) at Whistler Writers Fest for the reading event “Compassion and Happiness: A Conversation with Writers of Fiction.” Caroline will be joined by fellow fiction writers Jowita Bydlowska and the winner of the Whistler Independent Book Award for fiction winner\, in an exploration of the question “How does the heart learn to find what it needs?” and the interlacing themes of loneliness\, connection\, duty\, and happiness. The event will be moderated by Rebecca Wood Barrett. \nThe event will take place on Saturday\, October 19 at 10:15AM. \nMore details here. \nGrab A Way to Be Happy here! \nABOUT A WAY TO BE HAPPY \nLonglisted for the 2024 Giller Prize \nShort stories about disparate characters consider what it means to find happiness. \nOn New Year’s Eve\, a pair of addicts robs a string of high-end parties in order to fund their own recovery. A recently separated woman relocates to a small northern town\, where she receives a life-changing visitation\, and a Russian hitman\, suffering from a mysterious lung ailment\, retrieves long-buried memories of his past. In the nineteenth century\, a disparate group of women coalesce in the attempt to aid a young girl in her escape from a hospital for the insane. These are but some of the remarkable characters who populate these stories\, all of them grappling with conflicts ranging from mundane to extraordinary. Caroline Adderson’s A Way to Be Happy considers what it means to find happiness—and how often it comes through the grace of others. \nABOUT CAROLINE ADDERSON \nCaroline Adderson is the author of five novels (A Russian Sister\, Ellen in Pieces\, The Sky Is Falling\, Sitting Practice\, and A History of Forgetting)\, two previous collections of short stories (Pleased to Meet You and Bad Imaginings)\, as well as many books for young readers. Her award nominations include the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award\, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\, two Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes\, the Governor General’s Literary Award\, the Rogers’ Trust Fiction Prize\, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. The recipient of three BC Book Prizes\, three CBC Literary Awards\, and the Marian Engel Award for mid-career achievement\, Caroline lives and writes in Vancouver.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/caroline-adderson-at-whistler-writers-fest/
LOCATION:Fairmont Chateau Whistler\, 4599 Chateau Blvd\, Whistler\, BC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:Caroline Adderson at Paragraphe Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:Come out to Paragraphe Bookstore in Montreal\, where Caroline Adderson\, author of Giller-longlisted A Way to Be Happy (Sep 10\, 2024)\, will be reading from her new short story collection. Books will be available for sale and signing. \nThe event will take place on Thursday\, October 10 at 5PM. \nMore details TBA. \nGet A Way to Be Happy here! \nABOUT A WAY TO BE HAPPY \nLonglisted for the 2024 Giller Prize \nShort stories about disparate characters consider what it means to find happiness. \nOn New Year’s Eve\, a pair of addicts robs a string of high-end parties in order to fund their own recovery. A recently separated woman relocates to a small northern town\, where she receives a life-changing visitation\, and a Russian hitman\, suffering from a mysterious lung ailment\, retrieves long-buried memories of his past. In the nineteenth century\, a disparate group of women coalesce in the attempt to aid a young girl in her escape from a hospital for the insane. These are but some of the remarkable characters who populate these stories\, all of them grappling with conflicts ranging from mundane to extraordinary. Caroline Adderson’s A Way to Be Happy considers what it means to find happiness—and how often it comes through the grace of others. \nABOUT CAROLINE ADDERSON \nCaroline Adderson is the author of five novels (A Russian Sister\, Ellen in Pieces\, The Sky Is Falling\, Sitting Practice\, and A History of Forgetting)\, two previous collections of short stories (Pleased to Meet You and Bad Imaginings)\, as well as many books for young readers. Her award nominations include the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award\, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\, two Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes\, the Governor General’s Literary Award\, the Rogers’ Trust Fiction Prize\, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. The recipient of three BC Book Prizes\, three CBC Literary Awards\, and the Marian Engel Award for mid-career achievement\, Caroline lives and writes in Vancouver.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/caroline-adderson-at-paragraphe-bookstore/
LOCATION:Paragraphe Bookstore\, 2220 McGill College Ave\, Montreal\, QC\, H3A 3P9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Reading
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SUMMARY:Caroline Adderson at Argo Bookshop
DESCRIPTION:Come out to Argo Bookshop in Montreal\, where Caroline Adderson\, author of Giller-longlisted A Way to Be Happy (Sep 10\, 2024)\, will be speaking on a panel with Susan Lloy and Cora Sire. Books will be available for sale and signing. \nThe event will take place on Tuesday\, October 8 at 7PM. \nMore details TBA. \nGet A Way to Be Happy here! \nABOUT A WAY TO BE HAPPY \nLonglisted for the 2024 Giller Prize \nShort stories about disparate characters consider what it means to find happiness. \nOn New Year’s Eve\, a pair of addicts robs a string of high-end parties in order to fund their own recovery. A recently separated woman relocates to a small northern town\, where she receives a life-changing visitation\, and a Russian hitman\, suffering from a mysterious lung ailment\, retrieves long-buried memories of his past. In the nineteenth century\, a disparate group of women coalesce in the attempt to aid a young girl in her escape from a hospital for the insane. These are but some of the remarkable characters who populate these stories\, all of them grappling with conflicts ranging from mundane to extraordinary. Caroline Adderson’s A Way to Be Happy considers what it means to find happiness—and how often it comes through the grace of others. \nABOUT CAROLINE ADDERSON \nCaroline Adderson is the author of five novels (A Russian Sister\, Ellen in Pieces\, The Sky Is Falling\, Sitting Practice\, and A History of Forgetting)\, two previous collections of short stories (Pleased to Meet You and Bad Imaginings)\, as well as many books for young readers. Her award nominations include the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award\, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\, two Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes\, the Governor General’s Literary Award\, the Rogers’ Trust Fiction Prize\, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. The recipient of three BC Book Prizes\, three CBC Literary Awards\, and the Marian Engel Award for mid-career achievement\, Caroline lives and writes in Vancouver.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/caroline-adderson-at-argo-bookshop/
LOCATION:Argo Bookshop\, 1841-A rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest\, Montreal\, QC\, H3H 1M2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Reading
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SUMMARY:Catherine Leroux in Conversation with Heather O'Neill
DESCRIPTION:Catherine Leroux\, author of The Future\, will be reuniting with her Canada Reads champion Heather O’Neill to discuss Heather’s newest release\, The Capital of Dreams. Catherine will be moderating the discussion and interviewing Heather\, in the event presented in partnership with Words Worth Books in celebration of 40 years. \nThe event will take place at the Waterloo Public Library’s Eastside Branch on Monday\, September 20 at 7PM. \nRegistration and more details here. \nGrab The Future here! \nABOUT THE FUTURE \nWinner of Canada Reads 2024 • Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction • One of Tor.com’s Can’t Miss Speculative Fiction for Fall 2023 • Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 • One of Kirkus Reviews’ Fall 2023 Big Books By Small Presses • A Kirkus Reviews Work of Translated Fiction To Read Now • One of CBC Books Best Books of 2023 • A CBC Books Bestselling Canadian Book of the Week \nIn an alternate history of Detroit\, the Motor City was never surrendered to the US. Its residents deal with pollution\, poverty\, and the legacy of racism—and strange and magical things are happening: children rule over their own kingdom in the trees and burned houses regenerate themselves. When Gloria arrives looking for answers and her missing granddaughters\, at first she finds only a hungry mouse in the derelict home where her daughter was murdered. But the neighbours take pity on her and she turns to their resilience and impressive gardens for sustenance. \nWhen a strange intuition sends Gloria into the woods of Parc Rouge\, where the city’s orphaned and abandoned children are rumored to have created their own society\, she can’t imagine the strength she will find. A richly imagined story of community and a plea for persistence in the face of our uncertain future\, The Future is a lyrical testament to the power we hold to protect the people and places we love—together. \nABOUT CATHERINE LEROUX \nCatherine Leroux is a Quebec novelist\, translator and editor born in 1979. Her novel Le mur mitoyen won the France-Quebec Prize and its English version\, The Party Wall\, was nominated for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The Future won CBC’s Canada Reads 2024\, received the Jacques-Brossard award for speculative fiction and was nominated for the Quebec Booksellers Prize. Catherine also won the 2019 Governor General’s Literary Award for her translation of Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien. Two of her novels are currently being adapted for the screen. Her latest book\, Peuple de verre\, a speculative novel about the housing crisis\, came out in April 2024. She lives in Montreal with her two children.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/catherine-leroux-in-conversation-with-heather-oneill/
LOCATION:Waterloo Public Library\, 2001 University Ave E\, Waterloo\, ON\, N2K 4K4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion
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