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Billy-Ray Belcourt: Coexistence
Tue May 21, 2024 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Toronto Reference LibraryBestselling author Billy-Ray Belcourt discusses his new collection of intersecting stories about Indigenous love and loneliness. Across the prairies and Canada's west coast, on reserves and university campuses, at...
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Atelier Comment écrire une autofiction ? 3ème partie
Tue May 21, 2024 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm
Location: Toronto Reference LibraryLa littérature d'aujourd'hui est obsédée par la vérité. Alors, quelles sont les règles pour écrire vrai ? Et quentendent les romanciers.ères par vérité ? Cest surtout l'affirmation de Boris Vian, que « l'histoire est entièr...
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Racing to Go Viral | Ben Smith & Elamin Abdelmahmoud
Wed May 22, 2024 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: Toronto Reference LibraryWhat's at stake when news becomes click-bait? In a data-driven world where success is often measured by likes and shares, news outlets are fighting for eyeballs. In the race against fleeting attention spans, what's the risk w...
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Atelier Comment écrire une autofiction ? 4ème partie
Tue May 28, 2024 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm
Location: Toronto Reference LibraryLa littérature d'aujourd'hui est obsédée par la vérité. Alors, quelles sont les règles pour écrire vrai ? Et quentendent les romanciers.ères par vérité ? Cest surtout l'affirmation de Boris Vian, que « l'histoire est entièr...
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Rob Harvilla: 60 Songs that Explain the '90s
Wed May 29, 2024 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Toronto Reference LibraryWriter and podcaster Rob Harvilla visits the Appel Salon to regale music lovers with tales from his new book 60 Songs That Explain the '90s, a companion to the #1 music podcast on Spotify. The 1990s were a chaotic...
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Memoirs of a Dragon Lady
Sat Jun 01, 2024 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: RiverdaleJoin Carol-Williams-Wong for a reading of her memoirs and presentation, followed by a Q&A session. Drop-in. If you identify as a person with a disability and require an accessibility accommodation to participate in...
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Kaya Genç: A Journey Through Modern Turkey
Mon Jun 03, 2024 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: Toronto Reference LibraryConsidered a physical and cultural bridge between the East and the West, Turkey is a nation of contradictions. From its rich cultural history as one of the world's oldest civilizations to its challenging socio-political prese...
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Tommy Orange: Wandering Stars
Tue Jun 04, 2024 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Toronto Reference LibraryTommy Orange, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist and American Book Award-winning novel There There, discusses Wandering Stars, his follow-up novel tracing the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indust...
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Keiron Pim: The Genius and Tragedy of Joseph Roth
Mon Jun 10, 2024 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Toronto Reference LibraryWriter Keiron Pim visits the Appel Salon to discuss his new book Endless Flight: The Genius and Tragedy of Joseph Roth with host Eleanor Wachtel. The mercurial, self-mythologising novelist and journalist Joseph Rot...
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Writing the Imaginable and Writing the Unimaginable
Mon Jun 10, 2024 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: S. Walter StewartAuthors Nora Gold and Gary Barwin present their brilliant new books and discuss a wide range of topics including Jewish identity and experience in the contemporary world, the nature of creativity, the writing process, their l...