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Rohinton Mistry and PEN Canada at IFOA, Tweeted
Last night a rare appearance by Rohinton Mistry opened the 2012 International Festival of Authors at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre. The evening was a benefit for PEN Canada—and featured the author giving an enchanting reading about his childhood, several of his incredible and unexpected bursts into song, as well as a chat on stage with the CBC’s…
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The History of Reading as Told by Students at the University of Toronto
This last semester I taught a course called “Readers and Readerships” to close to a hundred and fifty bright young Torontonians. A core second-year course in the Book and Media Studies program at the University of Toronto, the class surveyed the history of Western reading from the pre-history of writing to the present. We…
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Herman’s House at Open Roof Festival! Win Free Tickets to a Great Film Outside
The Toronto Review of Books is thrilled to be co-sponsoring the July 19 screening of Herman’s House at Open Roof Festival, a marvellous series that presents outdoor screenings every Thursday night all summer. We’ve got a couple of tickets to Herman’s House for our readers: to enter in the draw to win ’em, send your name and your favourite bookish…
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An Editorial Occupant
Readers rewrite the books they remember. We occupy the books we’ve read, just as books occupy places, and places occupy books, ideas, and readers. Recently opening a book I took to the west coast in 2005, I flipped to the back page and found the old inscription left there for me by a traveller on…
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Contribute to The Toronto Review of Books!
Dear Charming Readers, If you like The Toronto Review of Books, do think about contributing! Our blog, Chirograph, is always hungry for bookish, curious, and open-minded mini-essays and reviews of books and other things, new and old. Meanwhile, we’re putting together Issue Five and are eager to know your ideas. Also, if you’re interested in…
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June 20: The TRB’s Occupy Issue Launch Party Masquerade
Dear Readers, To round out our first year of publishing quarterly issues of thoughtful, playful, and provoking essays and poetry, we bring you a themed issue: we’re thrilled to announce the June 20th launch of The Toronto Review of Books Issue Four: the Occupy Issue. WHAT: Occupy Issue Launch Party Masquerade! WHEN: June 20th, 8pm until late WHERE: Poetry…
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“Funny Strange”: TRB Tweets Calvin Trillin, Seán Cullen, and Charles Foran on Mordecai Richler
Last night we had a marvellous time live-tweeting “Funny Strange: Satire after Mordecai Richler,” PEN Canada‘s event at the Royal Ontario Museum. PEN Canada President and Richler biographer Charles Foran moderated a chat between the renowned New Yorker author Calvin Trillin and comedian Seán Cullen. Tweets as follows: [View the story “The Toronto Review of Books…
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Puzzlejuice for All: The Geniusy App-Shaped Offspring of Tetris and Scrabble
Ever since succumbing to Toronto’s latest exceptionally cough- and delirium-ridden flu a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been more than a little taken with Puzzlejuice, a new iOS app I discovered on my iPad during a long day bored out of my feverish brain in bed. Like the geniusy offspring of a steamy arcade interlude…
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TRB Issue Three Now Live!
It’s here. TRB’s Issue Three woke up in Toronto early this morning and decided to stay, bringing flamboyant style and irresistible appeal to a city already awash in charms. To take appropriate notice of this new arrival, join us tonight, April 17, at Poetry in Kensington Market, 224 Augusta Ave, 8pm on. Why not read TRB Issue…
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TRB Issue Three Coming Soon!
The third issue of The Toronto Review of Books will launch on April 17th to all the fanfare and cheers its readers, writers, editors, and volunteers can muster at Poetry Jazz Café (224 Augusta) in Kensington Market. Join us, from 8pm ’till late—we’ll be thrilled to see you.
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e-Reading! An Interdisciplinary Toronto Review of Books Symposium on March 31 at Massey College
Join The Toronto Review of Books at Massey College next Saturday, March 31st for the interdisciplinary symposium on e-Reading we’re hosting in collaboration with the University of Toronto’s program in Book History and Print Culture and the Toronto Centre for the Book. All are welcome to attend what promises to be a fascinating afternoon. The…
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Contribute to The Toronto Review of Books!
ISSUE FOUR: Call for Pitches! The Toronto Review of Books is currently looking for a few 800-word pieces, and a few 1500- to 2000-word pieces, as well as a poem or three, for our fourth issue. Essays in our regular issues review print and e-books, old and new, but also anything else that intrigues our…