| In Alberta Politics Uncovered, Mark Lisac asks, "Why does a province that complains about a ‘democratic deficit’ in Ottawa accept the operation of a virtual one-party state at home?" Lisac is at Pages this week to talk about how single-party rule is served by promoting myths and misconceptions about the West. He reads on Thursday November 4 at 7:30 p.m.
The next night, new Calgarian Christian Bök, former Calgarian Rob Budde and Vancouver’s Ryan Bowering read their poetry at McNally Robinson. That’s Friday, November 5, at 7 p.m. All three poets are published by Coach House Books in Toronto, which is why they’re part of the Coach House Reading Series dubbed "From Hogtown to Cowtown." The musicians of the CGS project will play jazz.
Then it’s journalist Carol Off who comes to McNally Robinson on Monday, November 8 to launch The Ghosts of Medak Pocket: The Story of Canada's Secret War, the story of unsung sacrifice among Canada’s peacekeepers in Croatia in 1993. The reading is at 7 p.m.
What is the link between writers Brian Brennan, Chris Ewart, Weyman Chan and Lori Hahnel? They’re all celebrating Alberta magazines at an event hosted by the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association, at Pages on Tuesday, November 9 at 7 p.m. (Note: not the usual 7:30 start time, but 7.) That same night, Senator Sharon Carstairs is at McNally Robinson with her book Dancing Backwards, a chronicle of 25 women who moved Canadian politics forward. She reads Tuesday, November 9 at 7 p.m.
Then on Wednesday at Pages, novelist Catherine Bush presents her new novel Claire's Head, a story of maps, pain and the search for a missing sister. That’s November 10 at 7:30 p.m. The same evening at McNally Robinson, Bradford J. Rennie presents Alberta Premiers of the 20th Century. Rennie reads alongside poet and fiction writer Stan Rogal, whose In Search of the Emerald City melds the story of Oz with the modern legends of Rimbaud and Van Gogh. Hmm… Alberta premiers, fraudulent wizards, troubled visionaries – what’s the connection? Find out at 7 p.m.
According to Calgary writer, artist and creative producer Michael Boyce, his novel Monkey blends "superhero comics, kung fu movies, Taoism and Gertrude Stein." And The Vancouver Sun called Larissa Lai’s When Fox is a Thousand (now republished by Arsenal), "Majestically written, with wild but contained imagery." Both authors read at Pages on Friday, November 12 at 7:30 p.m.
Finally, consider this advance notice that on November 17, Peter C. Newman will sail into the W.R. Castell Central Library to read from his autobiographical book Here Be Dragons. For information on the event, call 260-2785. |
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