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TPL and Ryerson University present: Masha Gessen: Navalny vs Putin

Thu Mar 04, 2021 | 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

In a special collaboration with Ryerson University Faculty of Arts, Toronto Public Library presents a timely and critical conversation with one of today's most prescient writers on neoliberalism and the Trump-era exploit...

Véronique Tadjo: In the Company of Men

Fri Mar 05, 2021 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Drawing on real accounts of the Ebola outbreak that devastated West Africa, Véronique Tadjo's poignant novel, In the Company of Men , reflects like a fable on both the strength and the fragility of life and humanit...

Kim Echlin: Speak, Silence

Tue Mar 09, 2021 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Kim Echlin discusses her latest novel, Speak, Silence, which weaves together the stories of the women who led the charge to redefine sexual violence in war as a crime against humanity, a war crime, and a constituent elem...

Long Term Care or Long Lost Hope?

Mon Mar 15, 2021 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

As our population approaches retirement age, the state of our long term care facilities and retirement homes are highly questionable. The pandemic showed us how broken that system has been for years and how new approache...

Adam Bunch: Toronto Book of Love

Wed Mar 17, 2021 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Adam Bunch talks about his latest book The Toronto Book of Love. Recounting Toronto's alluring history by telling the city's most passionate, steamy, romantic and heartbreaking stories, Bunch lets us in on the legends th...

Eden Robinson: Return of the Trickster

Tue Mar 23, 2021 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Eden Robinson will discuss the third instalment of her critically acclaimed, bestselling Trickster Trilogy. In Return of the Trickster Jared Martin has finally confirmed that he is the only one of his father's children w...

Vivian Gornick: Taking A Long Look

Wed Mar 24, 2021 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

One of contemporary America's most acute critics and insightful memoirists, Vivian Gornick (The Odd Woman and the City) has spent her writing career extracting meaning from the culture around her: from the novels of D.H....

Harlan Coben: Win

Mon Mar 29, 2021 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Harlan Coben, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, creator of The Stranger on Netflix, and icon of mystery and thriller writing, discusses his latest novel. In Win, Coben weaves together the abduction of an heiress,...

Tawhida Tanya Evanson: Book of Wings

Wed Mar 31, 2021 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

In her sweeping and impressionistic novel, Book of Wings , poet, dervish, and oral storyteller, Tawhida Tanya Evanson, comes to terms with what it means to stand on one's own two feet in an uncertain world. The acc...

Justin Ling: Missing From the Village

Fri Apr 09, 2021 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Investigative journalist, Justin Ling, was one of the first journalists to seriously and methodically look into the disappearances of several gay men from Toronto's Gay Village neighbourhood. As he retraced investigators...

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