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This Week in Book Events: May 25-31
It’s official: this may be our launchiest (and even raunchiest?) week ever.Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All Lit Up? Send the event details, including author, book, date, time, and address to hello@alllitup.ca to be included in our listings.
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It’s official: this may be our launchiest (and even raunchiest?) week ever.Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All Lit Up? Send the event details, including author, book, date, time, and address to hello@alllitup.ca to be included in our listings.
Monday, May 25th
Toronto
Book Launch: What Was I Thinking? by Rick SalutinWhere: Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto, ONWhen: 7pmMore information: Book launch for What Was I Thinking: The Autobiography of an Idea and Other Essays by Rick Salutin (ECW Press) at Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles Ave, in Toronto.Link: http://www.blogto.com/events/toronto-launch-of-what-was-i-thinking-by-rick-salutin-at-another-story-bookshop/
The Al Purdy A-Frame Association presents: Purdy Drinks 4Where: Monarch Tavern, 12 Clinton Street, Toronto, ONWhen: 7pmMore information: The Al Purdy A-Frame Association presents: Purdy Drinks 4. Featuring readings by: Aisha Sasha John, author of THOU and the Billie Hollies, Jeramy Dodds, and Laurie D. Graham. With Host and Performance by: Dave Bidini. Tickets will be $10 ($5 for students with valid ID) and all proceeds help with the restoration of the A-Frame and the Writers-in-Residence programme!Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1123153141033197/
Tuesday, May 26th
Whitehorse
Whitehorse Public Library presents an evening with Carellin Brooks, author of One Hundred Days of RainWhere: Whitehorse Public Library, 1171 1st Avenue, Whitehorse, YTWhen: 7pmMore information: Whitehorse Public Library presents an evening with Carellin Brooks, author of One Hundred Days of Rain. Reading with: Jamella Hagen. Free.Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1591766861099754/
TorontoBook Launch for KingdomWhere: Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto, ONMore information: Book Launch for Kingdom by Elizabeth Ross, also featuring poets Angela Hibbs, author of Sin Eater & Julie Cameron Gray, author of Tangle. Co-sponsored by Palimpsest Press. At Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles Ave, in Toronto.Montreal
Librarie D&Q Book Launches featuring BookThug, TalonBooks, and AnansiWhere: Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 211 Bernard ouest, Montreal, QCWhen: 7-10pmMore information: BookThug presents the Montreal launch for The Thought House of Philippa by Suzanne Leblanc, Translated by Oana Avasilichioaei and Ingrid Pam Dick. Also featuring the Montreal launch of Limbinal by Oana Avasilichioaei (Talonbooks) and Kapusta by Erin Moure (House of Anansi)Come celebrate new poetry that moves across borders and builds homes in multiple languages that enrich English: Oana Avasilichioaei’s Limbinal (Talonbooks), Suzanne Leblanc’s The Thought House of Philippa (Bookthug, tr. by Oana Avasilichioaei & Ingrid Pam Dick) and ErÃn Moure’s Kapusta (House of Anansi).Free.Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1853799598178577/TorontoGallery 8-11 presents the inaugural event for A Night of ReadingsWhere: Gallery 8-11, 233 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, ONWhen: 6pmMore information: This is the inaugural event for A Night of Readings, an ongoing night of readings encouraging artists to present, perform, and develop new texts as well as works-in-progress in front of a live audience.
Featuring readings by Aisha Sasha John, author of THOU, Emma Healey, Stephen Thomas, Arielle Gavin, Sebastian Frye, Nadia Belerique, Lili Huston-Herterich, Laurie Kang, Amy
TorontoThe Reading Line: Books on Bloor with Gary BarwinWhere: Along Bloor Street, TorontoMore information: Gary Barwin, author of I, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 251-1457, joins other authors on #booksonbloor, a “bookride” along Bloor Street, Toronto. More information can be found on the event’s webpage: http://www.thereadingline.ca/books-on-bloor/.
Sunday, May 31st
Toronto
HIJ House Reading Series #14 with Lex Von Konigslow, Dani Couture and Shane BookWhere: BookThug HQ, 260 Ryding Avenue Toronto, ONWhen: 2-5pmMore information: HIJ House Reading Series #14 with Lex Von Konigslow (The Capacity for Infinite Happiness), Dani Couture (Yaw) and Shane Book.Please join us for an afternoon of readings, the launch of three tiny new chapbooks, an author Q&A and lots of homemade pie. All are welcome. Free. A hat will be passed for the authors.Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1037147589629298/
