Happy New Decade!
A healthy mix of fact and fiction informs our reading habits for the new year, with fêted new offerings from authors including New York Times bestseller Elizabeth Kostova, New Face of Fiction Matthew Hooton, and tourist-trap explorer Chuck Thompson.
Don't forget that if you're a member of Authors a Harbourfront Centre, tickets to our weekly readings are FREE. If you're not a member, check out the sidebar to see how you can be! >>>
And if you want to watch your favourite authors in between events, or just need to remind yourself what you've been missing, Authors at Harbourfront Centre's YouTube Channel is now playing videos from our 2009 events, including, A.S. Byatt, Michael Ignatieff, John Irving and Alice Munro!
AUTHORS AT HARBOURFRONT CENTRE:
February 2010
Events begin at 7:30 pm
York Quay Centre
235 Queens Quay West, Toronto
Tickets $8 | FREE for members and students with valid ID
(unless otherwise noted)
Box Office + Info | 416-973-4000 | readings.org
Wednesday, February 10
Elizabeth Kostova, The Swan Thieves
Rabindranath Maharaj, The Amazing Absorbing Boy
Beth Powning, The Sea Captain's Wife
If you were among the droves who read Elizabeth Kostova's New York Times bestselling debut The Historian, you'll have been eagerly awaiting your next fix. No Prince of Darkness in sight this time, but dark secrets abound, and The Swan Thieves doesn't disappoint.
For Rabindranath Maharaj's new novel, The Amazing Absorbing Boy, think Lethem's Fortress of Solitude set in Toronto's Regent Park. Innocent in the world, wise in the ways of comic books, a young immigrant makes sense of his strange new home.
The dream of adventure is often different from the reality. Such is the lesson awaiting the young protagonist of Beth Powning's The Sea Captain's Wife when she embarks on a torturous voyage from the Bay of Fundy to England with her husband and young daughter.
Host: Rachel Harry (Canada) has produced literary and arts programming for BookTelevision, Canwest, Bravo!, CHUM and CTV.
Wednesday, February 17
Ben McNally Travellers Series
Glenn Dixon, Pilgrim in the Palace of Words
Deirdre Kelly, Paris Times Eight
Chuck Thompson, To Hellholes and Back
Tourist of tongues Glenn Dixon journeys through the 6,000 languages of Earth in Pilgrim in the Palace of Words. Seeing new places and things is a big part of the traveller's goal, but without the local language, how can we truly understand our new experiences?
Ever look at the society pages in the Globe and Mail and think, "whoever gets paid to go to those parties has a pretty swell job"? Well, that's exactly what Deirdre Kelly does. And now, she adds travel writer and memoirist to her already enviable resumé as fashion columnist, society reporter and features writer extraordinaire. Paris Times Eight is for the woman, shopper, traveller, and daughter in everyone.
With precious few vacation days in a year you want to be sure you don't waste them on a holiday dud. Fear not, Chuck Thompson goes to the world's "worst" holiday destinations so you won't have to: India, Mexico City...Disney World?! Try reading To Hellholes and Back on your next all-inclusive beach getaway for full ironic effect.
Host: Ben McNally has been selling books in Toronto for more than 30 years. His eponymous bookstore is on Bay Street.
Wednesday, February 24
Ali Eteraz, Children of Dust
Matthew Hooton, Deloume Road
Michelle Wan, Kill for an Orchid
A columnist for the Guardian and the Huffington Post, Ali Eteraz has developed an enthusiastic following as a writer, activist and political commentator. Now he presents his first prose work: Children of Dust: A Memoir of Pakistan.
Touted as one of Knopf Canada's New Faces of Fiction, Matthew Hooton – and his quill – is definitely one to watch. He's here reading from his debut novel, Deloume Road, a small-town story set under the shadow of a long-ago suicide.
Murder, orchids and the Dordogne, oh my! Kill for an Orchid, the fourth book in Michelle Wan's Death in Dordogne series, spans two hemispheres and three centuries, on a suspenseful journey of greed, obsession and murder.
Host: Rachel Harry (Canada) has produced literary and arts programming for BookTelevision, Canwest, Bravo!, CHUM and CTV.
WIN TICKETS to February 10!
Elizabeth Kostova, Rabindranath Maharaj, Beth Powning
To win a pair of tickets to this event, answer the following question:
Elizabeth Kostova's debut novel, The Historian, was a dark tale about...
a) Dracula
b) Frankenstein
c) Big Bird
Send your answers to readings@harbourfrontcentre.com.
Please write "FEB 10 TIX" in the subject line.
Entries must be received by midnight on February 3.
Winners will be notified February 5.
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