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Author Talks & Lectures

Icon of the event Author Talk: Marguerite Pigeon
Mon May 27, 2013 | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Parliament Street

Marguerite Pigeon is a writer of poetry and fiction....

Icon of the event Author Reading. Don Gillmor discusses his novel  Mount  Pleasant
Thu May 30, 2013 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Deer Park

In this tragicomic social novel,Gillmor examines the anxieties of the once confident baby boomers caught in the recent global recession - the downsizing of lifestyles,ambitions and rosy dreams of easy retirement.

Icon of the event Kamal Al-Solaylee: Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes
Thu Jun 13, 2013 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Parliament Street

Author and journalism professor Kamal Al-Solaylee talks about his family's movements from Yemen to Egypt and back amid the tumultuous political events of the 1960s and his own struggle to find a way to live as a gay man. Prid...