INSPIRE, Toronto's first book fair, starts this Thursday, November 13th and runs to the end of Sunday, the 16th.
A book fair, you say? In Toronto? About time, I say. I don’t think a city can call itself culturally first class without an International Book Fair. But even a book fair on its own isn’t enough. The folks have got to come out; they’ve got to show their enthusiasm. A book fair without book readers is like … like a deflated soufflé. All our pods are lined up, awaiting inspection. Both little guys and multinationals. Guernica, one of the little guys, is there (Pod #33 in The Discovery Pavilion). A bunch of anxious writers have been harnessed to read, to sign, to spread some literary gossip. Around them, a sea of books through which you’re invited to swim without fear of drowning – not even from information and/or sensory overload. There’ll be discussions and panels and outright arguments (of the bookerly type, one hopes). Guernica’s own panel (“Guernica Editions Presents Literature in Translation”) is pretty much self-explanatory. Saturday, Nov. 15, 10:30 on the Discovery Stage. I’m hosting (which can have a different meaning in French but we won’t go there). I’ll also be reading as part of the Association of Italian Canadian Writers/Accenti Magazine presentations at Booth 918. I’m scheduled for late Sunday afternoon. What to read? Well, there’s always that Bressani-Prize-winning poetry from The House on 14th Avenue (Signature Editions, check it out). Or maybe something from The Giulio Metaphysics III, the novel-cum-linked-short-story collection wherein I give my character Giulio freedom to be himself – whatever that means! The price is right, especially when it comes to a meal for the soul. I’ll be at Pod #33, Discovery Pavilion. Ready to chat, discuss, argue. So see you there. At the fair.
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Lesley
11/11/2014 03:28:51 pm
Are you going to the opening DO on Thursday night, Michael?
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Michael Mirolla
11/12/2014 12:02:43 am
Most definitely. Well, most probably. Depending on how the day goes. Moving and stacking books can be tiring. We need those holographic wall screens where you touch and the electronic forms of the materials appear -- like eBooks, you know?
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