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SUMMARY:DAPHNIS AND CHLOE: Windsor Launch
DESCRIPTION:Windsor readers: Join us in welcoming critically acclaimed Canadian author Colin McAdam at Biblioasis Bookshop\, for the launch of his 2026 Giller Prize–nominated novel\, Daphnis and Chloe. Colin will be reading from his book\, along with a discussion and audience Q&A. This event is free and open to everyone\, and refreshments will be provided. \nThe launch will take place at Biblioasis Bookshop on Thursday\, November 12 at 7PM. \nMore details here. \nABOUT DAPHNIS AND CHLOE \nLonglisted for the 2026 Giller Prize • A 2026 CIBA Booksellers’ List Selection • One of Lit Hub‘s Most Anticipated Books of 2026 \nA fable about love and innocence and beauty\, and finding a light through the darkness. \nThere’s a city on an island in the Pacific that can only be reached by ferry\, a city where a mechanic named Frank opens a garage with his old friend Charlie. Both men marry the women they love but are unable to have children. There are drugs on the streets of this city that take away pain for strings of minutes and bring synthetic rapture; and by these streets the couples are given two babies\, abandoned under strange circumstances. The boy they name Daphnis\, and the girl Chloe. \nAnd so begins a book unlike anything else\, a modern retelling of an ancient story. Part Ovid and part True Romance\, and narrated by Eros himself\, Daphnis and Chloe offers a pulpy meditation on love and beauty\, on people triumphing over darkness by wrestling deep within it\, on the solace of art\, and on the simple but profound pleasure provided to a blind old man as he holds his wife’s hand and listens to an increasingly familiar story. \nABOUT COLIN MCADAM \nColin McAdam is an internationally acclaimed novelist with a PhD from Cambridge on translations of Ancient Greek—the original language of Daphnis and Chloe. He has written non-fiction for Harpers\, Granta\, Salon\, and Hazlitt\, among other journals\, and his novels have won or been shortlisted for several prizes including the Amazon Best First Novel Award\, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize\, the Commonwealth Writers Prize\, the Governor General’s Award\, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Prize and the Giller Prize. He lives in Quebec.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/daphnis-and-chloe-windsor-launch/
LOCATION:Biblioasis Bookshop\, 1520 Wyandotte St E\, Windsor\, ON\, N9A 3L2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Discussion,Reading
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SUMMARY:Best Canadian Essays 2027: Toronto Launch!
DESCRIPTION:Toronto friends: Join us for the launch of Best Canadian Essays 2027! Guest editor Deborah Dundas will be joined by several contributors for a night of reading and discussion Books will be available for sale and signing from Another Story. \nThe launch will take place at Another Story on Thursday\, November 19 at 7PM. \nGrab Best Canadian Essays 2027 here! \nCheck out all three of this year’s anthologies here. \nABOUT BEST CANADIAN STORIES 2027 \nSelected and introduced by Deborah Dundas\, Best Canadian Essays 2027 provides a unique perspective on what constitutes the best Canadian nonfiction writing published in the previous year. Featuring insights on the impact and aftermath of COVID\, battling wildfires and understanding Indigenous fire stewardship\, a life before and after trauma\, condo-buying\, dead mall tours\, difficult family histories\, and more\, these fifteen essays negotiate the zone between then and now\, and take readers straight to the heart of the matter. \nFeaturing: \nDarcy Ballantyne • Melinda Burns • Claire Cameron • Kathy Chow • Dane de Souza • Hilary Fair • Lana Hall • Tanis MacDonald • Stephen Marche • Soraya Roberts • Lisa Robertson • Julie Salverson • Cora Siré • Moez Surani • Erika Thorkelson \nABOUT DEBORAH DUNDAS \nDeborah Dundas is a writer and journalist\, has worked as a television producer and is currently an editor at the Toronto Star. Her work has appeared in numerous publications in Canada\, the UK and Ireland including Maclean’s\, The Globe and Mail\, The National Post\, Canadian Notes and Queries\, The Belfast Telegraph and The Sunday Independent. She attended York University for English and Political Science and has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of King’s College.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/best-canadian-essays-2027-toronto-launch/
LOCATION:Another Story\, 315 Roncesvalles Ave\, Toronto\, ON\, M6R 2M6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
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