Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin and This Is Not A Reading Series launch My Winnipeg (the book companion to his film of the same name) with Attack of the Winnipeg Hockey Moms. Maddin will first introduce clips of his favourite film mothers and then compete in a table hockey tournament with celebrity guests!
Is it possible to write a novel in poetic verse? Can you write in a language that's not yours? Famed experimental author, poet and feminist Nicole Brossard speaks with Margaret Christakos (What Stirs), a fellow cross-genre writer about the relative merits of writing novels and poetry, and what happens when one bleeds into another.
In advance of the book launch for Practical Dreamers: Conversations with Movie Artists (on May 13), editor Mike Hoolboom talked to Pages Books and Magazines. For their new website, he wrote a tribute to one of the many movie-makers he's worked with over the years.<!--newline--><!--newline--><!--newline-->His feet never seemed to quite hit the ground when he entered the room, blown in on some passing whim.
This week, Eye Weekly previewed some of This Is Not A Reading Series' upcoming launches, and included Claudia Dey's Stunt:<!--newline--><!--newline-->'Stunt by Claudia Dey (Coach House, 220 pages, $19.95), in conversation with Michael Winter ... April 23. Playwright Dey turns novelist with the story of a nine-year-old abandoned by her father.
From September 21 to October 5, Shawn Micallef, the author of Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto (as well as EYE WEEKLY columnist and Spacing editor) and flâneur extraordinaire, will tweet his Toronto discoveries through the Twitter handle @strollcity in addition to his own feed.
Please join us on Thursday, September 9, 2010 to celebrate at our annual Wayzgoose! Throughout the age of the printed word, the Wayzgoose has been an entertainment given by a master printer to his workmen each summer's end (when the season of working by candlelight began). At the Coach House Wayzgoose, friends and readers can visit the Coach House, take self-guided tours of the premises, have a few refreshments, peruse the book table and hobnob with authors, publishing figures and neighbourhood locals.
