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SUMMARY:The Notebook: Windsor Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Biblioasis Bookshop for the North American launch of Roland Allen‘s The Notebook (Sep 3\, 2024)! Roland Allen will be appearing and reading from his new book on the history of the notebook\, followed by a discussion and audience Q&A. Books will be available for sale and signing\, and refreshments will be provided. \nThe launch will take place on Monday\, September 30 at 7PM. \nMore details here. \nGrab your copy of The Notebook here! \nABOUT THE NOTEBOOK \nA Kirkus Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2024 \nThe first history of the notebook\, a simple invention that changed the way the world thinks. \nWe see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did these indispensable implements come from? How did they revolutionize our lives? And how can using a notebook help change the way you think? In this wide-ranging history\, Roland Allen reveals how the notebook became our most dependable and versatile tool for creative thinking. He tells the notebook stories of Leonardo and Frida Kahlo\, Isaac Newton and Marie Curie\, and writers from Chaucer to Henry James; shows how Darwin developed his theory of evolution in tiny pocket books and Agatha Christie plotted a hundred murders in scrappy exercise books; and introduces a host of cooks\, kings\, sailors\, fishermen\, musicians\, engineers\, politicians\, adventurers\, and mathematicians\, all of whom used their notebooks as a space to think—and in doing so\, shaped the modern world. \nIn an age of AI and digital overload\, the humble notebook is more relevant than ever. Allen shows how bullet points can combat ADHD\, journals can ease PTSD\, and patient diaries soften the trauma of reawakening from coma. The everyday act of moving a pen across paper\, he finds\, can have profound consequences\, changing the way we think and feel: making us more creative\, more productive—and maybe even happier. \nABOUT ROLAND ALLEN \nRoland Allen lives in Brighton. He studied at Manchester University and works in book (and notebook) publishing. He has written books on bicycles and bread\, has kept a diary for decades\, and enjoys stationery a little too much.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/the-notebook-windsor-launch/
LOCATION:Biblioasis Bookshop\, 1520 Wyandotte St E\, Windsor\, ON\, N9A 3L2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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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
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SUMMARY:Colleen Coco Collins at Word on the Street Toronto
DESCRIPTION:Join Colleen Coco Collins\, author of the poetry collection Sorry About the Fire (Apr 4\, 2024)\, at Word on the Street Toronto! Coco will be on the panel “#ActuallyAutistic: Neurodivergent Storytelling” alongside fellow authors Maggie North and Paige Layle\, with moderator Kerry C. Byrne\, as they explore how their neurodivergence influences the way they tell stories\, and what fresh perspectives autistic minds bring to writers’ craft. \nThe event will take place on Sunday\, September 29 at 2:45PM. \nMore details here. \nGrab a copy of Sorry About the Fire here! \nABOUT SORRY ABOUT THE FIRE \nA CBC Books’ Poetry Collection to Watch for in Spring 2024 \nI wanted a good bewildering\, / down deep\, / as the keep of a castle. \nWith a voice as ungovernable and determined as Prometheus—who stole fire from Zeus only to face dire consequences—Colleen Coco Collins’ debut poems are daring dispatches from beyond the margins: light-filled flares sent up from the edge of language\, sentience\, land\, and story. Drawing on all of her multidisciplinary enamorations and rendered through the triple vision of her Irish\, French\, and Odawa heritage\, Sorry About the Fire introduces not just a poet\, but a stunningly original sensibility. \nABOUT COLLEEN COCO COLLINS \nColleen Coco Collins [she/they] is an interdisciplinary artist of Irish\, French\, and Odawa descent\, working in songwriting\, performance\, poetry and visual arts. She’s worked as a gallery director\, in forestry\, fossil preparation\, and renovation; as an autism support worker\, teacher\, and women’s shelter counsellor. Her writing\, music\, and art practice centers on temporality\, presumptions of sentience\, subversion\, rhythm\, gesture\, geographies\, biophonies\, frequencies\, the ouroboric\, the peripatetic\, love and the polyglottic. Hailing from Antler River/Deshkan Ziibiing/London\, Ontario\, Coco has studied at universities in Nova Scotia\, New Brunswick\, New Zealand\, and Ireland. She lives litorally in rural Port Greville\, Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia amidst crows\, coyotes\, grackles\, bees\, humpback\, lichen and fox.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/colleen-coco-collins-at-word-on-the-street-toronto/
LOCATION:Queen’s Park\, College St. & University Ave\, Toronto\, ON\, M7A 1A2\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Alex Pugsley at TIFA
DESCRIPTION:Join Alex Pugsley\, author of The Education of Aubrey McKee (May 7\, 2024)\, at the Toronto International Festival of Authors! Alex will be in conversation with Jean Marc Ah-Sen to talk about writing books about writers falling in love with other writers and the emotional turmoil that comes from it. With both novels set in the Toronto literary scene\, the authors will have plenty to talk about how the city is central to their inspirations. The conversation will be moderated by Tomas Hachard\, and supported by Toronto Lit Up. Books will be available for sale and signing afterwards. \nThe event will take place at the Lakeside Terrace on Sunday\, September 29 at 1PM. \nTickets and more details here. \nGrab The Education of Aubrey McKee here! \nCheck out the first book\, Aubrey McKee\, here! \nABOUT THE EDUCATION OF AUBREY MCKEE \nLonglisted for the 2024 Toronto Book Awards • A Toronto Star Most Anticipated Spring Title • A 49th Shelf Can’t Miss Title for Spring \nA young writer finds his way in and out of love in the late twentieth century. \nThe scene is Toronto\, the early 1990s\, and at a house party Aubrey McKee falls in love with a bewitching stranger who talks him into stealing a piece of cake. This woman—a poet named Gudrun Peel—rapidly becomes the person for whom he would do anything at all. Together\, Aubrey and Gudrun make a life of delirious idiosyncrasy. Surrounded by friends\, frenemies\, lovers\, and rivals in the underground arts scene\, the possibilities of their destiny remain radically open. But as their relationship deepens\, and their creative and professional lives stumble\, stall\, and then suddenly blow up\, Aubrey and Gudrun struggle against their own inexperience . . . as well as each other. \nThe much-anticipated follow-up to Alex Pugsley’s Aubrey McKee\, The Education of Aubrey McKee is a campus novel in which the city of Toronto is the institute of higher education and the setting for a glittering story about the incandescence of first love. \nABOUT ALEX PUGSLEY \nAlex Pugsley is the author of the novels Aubrey McKee and The Education of Aubrey McKee\, as well as the short story collection Shimmer. Following the publication of Aubrey McKee\, he was named one of CBC’s Writers to Watch. He has been nominated for Canadian Comedy Awards\, Gemini Awards\, Hot Doc Awards\, National Magazine Awards\, and is a winner of the Writers’ Trust Journey Prize. His feature film Dirty Singles is available on Apple TV and Prime Video. His next novel\, Silver Lake\, the third book in a series about Aubrey McKee\, is forthcoming from Biblioasis.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/alex-pugsley-at-tifa/
LOCATION:Lakeside Terrace\, 235 Queens Quay W\, Toronto\, ON\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival
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SUMMARY:Caroline Adderson at WORD Vancouver
DESCRIPTION:Join Caroline Adderson\, author of Giller-longlisted A Way to Be Happy (Sep 10\, 2024) at WORD Vancouver for the panel “Short Stories Exploding Pages”! Caroline will be joined by fellow writer Shashi Bhat for a conversation on short story craft\, moderated by Taslim Jaffer. \nThe event will take place on Saturday\, September 28 at 3:45PM. \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-word-vancouver/
LOCATION:UBC Robson Square\, 800 Robson Street\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 3B7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival
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SUMMARY:Mike Barnes at Word on the Street Toronto
DESCRIPTION:Mike Barnes\, author of Sleep Is Now a Foreign Country\, will be at Word on the Street Toronto on Saturday\, September 28. Time and more details TBA. \nGrab a copy of Sleep Is Now a Foreign Country here! \nABOUT SLEEP IS NOW A FOREIGN COUNTRY \nFinalist for the 2024 Trillium Book Award • One of CBC Books’ Canadian Nonfiction to Read in the Fall \nA poet recounts his experience with madness and explores the relationship between apprehension and imagination. \nIn the summer of 1977\, standing on a roadside somewhere between Dachau and Munich\, twenty-two-year-old Mike Barnes experienced the dawning of the psychic break he’d been anticipating almost all his life. “Times over the years when I have tried to describe what followed\,” he writes of that moment\, “it has always come out wrong.” In this finely wrought\, deeply intelligent memoir of madness\, its antecedents and its aftermath\, Barnes reconstructs instead what led him to that moment and offers with his characteristic generosity and candor the captivating account of a mind restlessly aware of itself. \nABOUT MIKE BARNES \nMike Barnes is the author of twelve books of poetry\, short fiction\, novels\, and memoir. He has won the Danuta Gleed Award and a National Magazine Award Silver Medal for his short fiction\, and the Edna Staebler Award for his photo-and-text essay “Asylum Walk.” His most recent book of nonfiction\, Be With: Letters to a Caregiver\, was a finalist for the City of Toronto Book Award and has been praised by Margaret Atwood as “Timely\, lyrical\, tough\, accurate.” He lives in Toronto.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/mike-barnes-at-word-on-the-street-toronto/
LOCATION:Queen’s Park\, College St. & University Ave\, Toronto\, ON\, M7A 1A2\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Caroline Adderson at Winnipeg Thin Air Festival: Main Stage
DESCRIPTION:Join Caroline Adderson\, author of A Way to Be Happy (Sep 10\, 2024) at the Winnipeg Thin Air Festival! Caroline will be appearing for the “Reading on the Main Stage” event in the evening to read from her latest short story collection\, the Giller-longlisted A Way to Be Happy. She’ll be joined by E. McGregor\, Oonya Kempadoo\, and Shashi Bhat\, as each of these award-winning writers read from books that confront the difficulty of relationships\, their stories often offering us templates for braving these onerous but regular realities of life. Books will be available for sale and signing. \nThe event will take place at the WAG\, on Wednesday\, September 25 at 7PM. \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-winnipeg-thin-air-festival-2/
LOCATION:The WAG\, 300 Memorial Blvd.\, Winnipeg\, MB\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival
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SUMMARY:Caroline Adderson at Winnipeg Thin Air Festival: Afternoon Book Chat
DESCRIPTION:Join Caroline Adderson\, author of the Giller-longlisted collection A Way to Be Happy (Sep 10\, 2024) at the Winnipeg Thin Air Festival! Caroline will be joined by fellow author Shashi Bhat for an afternoon book chat\, discussing and reading from their recent releases. \nThe event will take place at the Bill & Helen Norrie Library on Wednesday\, September 25 at 1:30PM. Books will be available for sale and signing. \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-winnipeg-thin-air-festival/
LOCATION:Bill & Helen Norrie Library\, 15 Poseidon Bay\, Winnipeg\, MB\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Hello\, Horse & A Way to Be Happy: Vancouver Double Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us in Vancouver to celebrate the double launch of our two fall short story collections: A Way to Be Happy by Caroline Adderson (Sep 10\, 2024) and Hello\, Horse by Richard Kelly Kemick (Aug 6\, 2024). Caroline and Richard will each read from their collections\, followed by a discussion and audience Q&A. Books will be available for sale and signing. \nThe launch will take place at the Tightrope Theatre on Sunday\, September 8 at 7:30PM. \nGrab A Way to Be Happy here! \nGet Hello\, Horse 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. \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.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/hello-horse-a-way-to-be-happy-vancouver-double-launch/
LOCATION:Tightrope Theatre\, 2343 Main St\, Vancouver\, BC\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Michael Lista at Eden Mills Writers' Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join Michael Lista\, author of the collection Barfly\, at Eden Mills Writers’ Fest for the panel “In Verse”. Michael will be joined by fellow writers Faith Arkorful\, Aedan Corey\, and Shani Mootoo\, along with host Madhur Anand\, for an event of readings and interviews. The panel is sponsored by the League of Canadian Poets. \nThe event will take place on Sunday\, September 8 at 1:30PM ET. \nMore details here! \nGet a copy of Barfly here. \nABOUT BARFLY \nA CBC Books’ Poetry Collection to Watch for in Spring 2024 • A Toronto Star Most Anticipated Spring Title \nWe’re in love\, but we’re still Millennials. / What’s wrong with our hearts is congenital. \nIn Barfly\, the poet comes back to haunt himself\, and us. In this incomparable third collection\, his first in a decade\, Michael Lista returns to reinvent poetry with humour\, pugnacity\, and a deeply singular voice. Splicing Byronic rhymes and Auden’s meters with the twenty-first century irreverence of a late-stage Twitter feed\, the poems in Barfly are alternatingly aggressive\, sweet\, deadly\, and raw with a break-your-heart vulnerability. \nABOUT MICHAEL LISTA \nMichael Lista is an investigative journalist\, essayist and poet. He has worked as a book columnist for the National Post and as the poetry editor of The Walrus. He is the author of four books: the poetry volumes Bloom and The Scarborough; Strike Anywhere\, a collection of his writing about literature\, television and culture; and The Human Scale: Murder\, Mischief and Other Selected Mayhems\, a book of longform journalism. His essays and investigative stories have appeared in the New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Slate\, The Walrus\, Canadaland\, and Toronto Life. He is a contributing editor at Toronto Life and Maclean’s. He was the 2017 Margaret Laurence Fellow at Trent University and the winner of the 2020 National Magazine Awards for both Investigative Reporting and Long Form Feature Writing. His story “The Sting” is being adapted by Adam Perlman\, Robert Downey Jr.\, and Team Downey into a television series for Apple TV+.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/michael-lista-at-eden-mills-writers-festival/
LOCATION:Eden Mills Writers’ Festival\, 19 Cedar Street\, Eden Mills\, Ontario\, N0B 1P0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival
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