If there’s a reading or book launch on Monday night no one told Books@Torontoist about it. Where are you, authors?
On Tuesday night poets Lara Bozabalian, David Silverberg, and Amanda Hiebert will woo the crowds at the popular Artbar Poetry Series at Clinton’s (693 Bloor Street West). The event is free and begins at 8 p.m.
Things really get rolling on Wednesday, with authors Elizabeth Kostova, Beth Powning, and Rabindranath Maharaj taking the stage (one by one) at the Authors at Harbourfront Centre series (235 Queens Quay West), which begins its winter and spring programming this week. (For our profile on the series go here.) Events are $8, or free to members, and begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Brigantine Room. The Pivot Readings continue in the usual 8 p.m. slot at the Press Club (850 Dundas Street West), this week’s free event featuring Martha Baillie, Damian Rogers, and Books@Torontoist contributor Jacob McArthur Mooney. The Hart House Reading Series (7 Hart House Circle) features Manitoba author Margaret Sweatman reading from her latest novel, The Players, at 6:30 p.m. (call 1-888-926-8377 for more information), while the (In)side the Veins poetry open mic and workshop continues at Culturshoc (1205 Queen Street West, 8 p.m., FREE).
The Roof Salon at the Park Hyatt (4 Avenue Road) is the site for a special Thursday night event, Diaspora Dialogues at Toronto’s Wintercity Festival. Billed as a “Midwinter Night’s Dream carnival” – no, we don’t know what the means either – the event features Sheila Heti, Nalo Hopkinson, Stuart Ross, Andrew Pyper and several other writers, storytellers, and musical performers, perhaps wearing tights, perhaps not. The event runs tonight and Friday, with shows at 7 and 9 p.m. ($20).
