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| BOOKENDS Just about as ready to share a laugh as he is to work hard on behalf of his fellow writers, poet Rajinderpal S. Pal has made a lot of friends in Calgary. By putting many hours into filling station magazine, Raj has helped fuel the work of many young Calgary writers. And then there are all the readings and events he's helped organize in recent years as well. All the time he's continued work on his own poems, now collected in his first book entitled papaji wrote poetry in a language i cannot read. Raj launches the collection on Saturday, September 19 in the Big Secret Theatre at the Centre for the Performing Arts. Sage Theatre, artistic director Rob Moffat's promising new undertaking, co-presents the late-afternoon event. It's also part of Pages on Kensington's Authors Out Loud series. You were paying attention when I said "late-afternoon event," right? This is not an evening reading! It's at 4:30 p.m., now write that down. Wouldn't you feel sheepish and forlorn if you showed up in the evening after everyone had left? Speaking of getting places early, The Word on the Street Book and Magazine Fair wants you to show up three whole days ahead of time. The September 27 literary street fair presents a fundraiser on September 24, featuring Vancouver band the Odds. The book fair will be at Eau Claire, but the Odds are at The Palace. Tickets are available at the Palace itself or Ticketmaster. Doors open at 7 p.m. To find out more about Word on the Street's exciting lineup, check http://sympatico.ca/wots, or just surf your eyes over to this very space in the next issue. Keith Oatley's last novel The Case of Emily V. combined brainy tobacco-craving sleuths Freud and Sherlock Holmes in an intellectual page-turner. He reads from his new novel, A Natural History, on Wednesday, September 23 at 7 p.m., at Pages. |