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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.
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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.
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LOCATION:Toronto Reference Library\, 789 Yonge St\, Toronto\, ON\, M4W 2G8\, Canada
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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.
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