MYSTERIOUS MARCH
Mystery looms large here in March; from strangers riding into town (Drew Hayden Taylor), to snakes on a killing spree (Horacio Castellanos Moya), and the return of 11-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce (Alan Bradley). Red herrings and double crosses abound on March 17 with Linwood Barclay and Jo Nesbø; and the legacy of our 2008 Irish focus lives on with Michael Collins, Patrick Taylor and Man Booker winner John Banville.
And on the eve of National Poetry Month, we bring you 20 poets in the NOW Open Poetry Stage – a high-paced showcase of literary grace.
March is also the month that Harbourfront Centre begins a facelift, starting with the parking lot next to York Quay Centre. Details of the construction and parking/transportation alternatives will be posted here as updates are available. Please excuse our appearance while we become the ugly duckling, and remember that it's but part of the process of growing into a beautiful swan.
AUTHORS AT HARBOURFRONT CENTRE:
March 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, March 3
John Banville, The Infinities
Interviewed by Antanas Sileika
Getting the month going with a bang is Man Booker Prize-winner (for The Sea) John Banville (Ireland). He reads from his new book, The Infinities, an Homeric tale of family and loss, and is interviewed by Humber School for Writers Artistic Director Antanas Sileika. Banville has a rep. for being hyper-articulate: expect to leave enriched and enlightened, and with your vocabulary much improved.
Host: Rachel Harry (Canada) has produced literary and arts programming for BookTelevision, Canwest, Bravo!, CHUM and CTV.
Wednesday, March 10
Horacio Castellanos Moya, Dance with Snakes
Drew Hayden Taylor, Motorcycles & Sweetgrass
Patrick Taylor, An Irish Country Girl
El Salvadorian Horacio Castellanos Moya delivers a dark and slithery tale in Dance with Snakes. Violence and comedy intertwine as a man and his venomous companions go on a killing spree in post-civil-war El Salvador.
Theatregoers know Drew Hayden Taylor (Canada) from his award-winning plays; teens know him from his vampiric YA novel The Night Wanderer; cineastes know him from his award-winning documentaries exploring the Native experience. And whether or not you fall into these groups, now you can know him too through his first novel for adults: Motorcycles & Sweetgrass.
March's luck of the Irish continues with Patrick Taylor's (Canada/Ireland) An Irish Country Girl, a return to the tale of housekeeper Mrs. Kinky Kincaid – a woman with a gift to see the future, whose own life remains a mystery.
Wednesday, March 17
Linwood Barclay, Never Look Away
Michael Collins, Midnight in a Perfect Life
Jo Nesbø, The Snowman
"Canada's current thriller king" (National Post) Linwood Barclay (Canada) leads this week's mystery charge with Never Look Away, another (and by now trademark) dose of nail biting family drama and disappearances.
Extreme athlete Michael Collins (Ireland/USA) (he's completed both the North Pole Marathon and the Everest Challenge Marathon) confronts extreme fears with the protagonist of Midnight in a Perfect Life, a man tortured by the memory of his murderous father.
If Barclay is Canada's thriller king, then Jo Nesbø is undisputedly Norway's. His Detective Harry Hole series has scooped awards and sold more than 1.5 million copies in Norway alone (pop. 5 million). With The Snowman, Nesbø – who also fronts Norwegian rock group Di Derre – presents his fifth Harry Hole mystery to be translated into English.
Wednesday, March 24
Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
Michael McKinley, The Penalty Killing
Alan Bradley's (Canada) The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie became an international sensation in 2009. Join precocious Flavia de Luce as she indulges her curiosity about chemistry and corpses once again in The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag – a sparkling and comic mystery.
Known for his hockey expertise – he wrote Hockey: A People's History and four earlier books on hockey – Michael McKinley (Canada) takes readers into the fast and furious world of professional ice hockey by-way-of an action-packed murder mystery, The Penalty Killing. The Penalty Killing, McKinley's debut novel, is set to be the first installment in a series of Martin Carter Mysteries.
Wednesday, March 31
NOW Open Poetry Stage
A LICENSED EVENT
Think you're a slam dunk with a stanza?
On the eve of National Poetry Month, we're presenting our second Open Poetry Stage, this time in cahoots with NOW Magazine. Twenty poets will read for five minutes each.
The one judged to have given the best interpretation of their work (because we're about literary merit and onstage entertainment) wins an invitation to IFOA and their book advertised in NOW.
Jacob McArthur Mooney, winner of the 2009 Open Stage Night, hosts.
WIN TICKETS to March 17!
Linwood Barclay, Michael Collins and
Jo Nesbø
To win a pair of tickets to this event, complete the following statement: Linwood Barclay's Richard & Judy book club bestseller was called...
a) No Time for Hello.
b) No Time for Goodbye.
c) See ya!
Send your answers to readings@harbourfrontcentre.com.
Please write "MARCH 17 TIX" in the subject line.
Entries must be received by midnight on March 5.
Winners will be notified March 8.
Support Literacy and Freedom of Expression
Tickets to The Globe and Mail Open House Festival (April 30 - May 2) are now on sale.
Proceeds go to IFOA partner Pen Canada, Frontier College and the Toronto Public Library Foundation.
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