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SUMMARY:Launch: Linda Leith Publishing
DESCRIPTION:The Blue Metropolis Literary Festival presents the launch of English and French language books from Linda Leith Publishing\, including titles from Fall 2024 to Spring 2025. \nAuthors and translators will be present. \nLocation: Hôtel 10 — Suite 10 \n/// \nLinda Leith Publishing lance les titres publiés entre l’automne 2024 et le printemps 2025. Présenté en partenariat avec le Festival Metropolis Bleu. \nEn présence des auteurs et traducteurs. \nLieu : Hôtel 10 — Suite 10
URL:https://qwf.org/event/launch-linda-leith-publishing/
LOCATION:Hotel 10\, 10 Sherbrooke Street West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2X 4C9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Festival
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Mind the Gap by Alice Zorn
DESCRIPTION:Book launch for Alice Zorn‘s new collection of travel fiction\, Mind the Gap\, published by NeWest Press. \nAlice Zorn will be in conversation with Cora Siré at the Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore\, 2220 Av. McGill College\, Montréal from 5 to 7 pm. \nAdmission is free. \nRefreshments will be served. \nAbout the Book\nA beautifully crafted second short story collection from award-winning writer Alice Zorn. \nWith an uncompromising and relatable voice\, Zorn travels through Mexico\, Morocco\, Texas\, England\, Austria\, Tunisia\, and northeastern Quebec in these seven short stories and one novella\, each following a compelling narrator on a quest — to find someone who does not wish to be found\, to discover the truth behind family secrets\, to expiate guilt\, to make new bonds\, to realize a dream. Far from home\, facing new mirrors\, characters leave old selves behind and discover new ones. Alice Zorn shines once again in this exploration of friendship\, love\, art\, work\, gender\, and cultural identity in this spectacular collection of travel fiction. \nAbout the Author\nOriginally from Hamilton\, Ontario\, Alice Zorn has now lived for many years in Montréal. Her writing has won or been shortlisted for awards across Canada. Mind the Gap is her fifth book of fiction. \nPraise for Alice Zorn\n“Zorn’s precise\, compelling descriptions and unusual storylines linger long after the book is finished.”—Anita Anand\, award-winning author of A Convergence of Solitudes \n“ Zorn’s characters travel the world in search of something or someone but end up finding themselves. An absorbing\, lyrical\, and bewitching collection.”—Theresa Shea\, bestselling author of The Shade Tree \n“Zorn is a compelling storyteller\, deft in the art of leaving us wanting more.” — Katia Grubisic\, Governor General’s Award-winning author of What if red ran out
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-mind-the-gap-by-alice-zorn/
LOCATION:Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore\, 2220 McGill College Ave\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3A 3P9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Reading with Jane Austen by Elaine Bander
DESCRIPTION:Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore and Bucknell University Press present a launch for Reading with Jane Austen by Elaine Bander. \nJoin us as Dr. Elaine Bander discusses and signs her new book Reading with Jane Austen. \nAdmission is free. \nRefreshements will be served. \nAbout the Book\nJane Austen has more readers today than at any time in history. Many of Austen’s legions of fans\, however\, came to her novels after first seeing films or other adaptations made for twenty-first-century audiences. Austen herself conversely spent her literary career undermining romantic clichés and rethinking novel conventions. Confident that she and her contemporaries shared a common reading culture\, Austen deliberately constructed her novels to set readerly expectations\, only to disrupt or confound those expectations by challenging her readers’ assumptions and values. In Reading with Jane Austen\, Elaine Bander carefully rereads the great author’s novels—beginning with her late work of juvenilia\, “Catharine\, or The Bower\,” and ending with her final fragment\, “Sanditon”—against the rich context of late Georgian literary and intellectual culture. In doing so\, Bander invites us into the transformative experience that Austen intentionally designed for her earliest readers\, adding new layers of appreciation for those who love her work. \nAbout the Author\nElaine Bander is retired from Dawson College in Montreal\, Canada\, where she taught English for three decades. She is the author of dozens of essays and several book chapters on Austen and other writers and served as president of the Jane Austen Society of North America (Canada) as well as of the Burney Society (North America). \nPraise for Elaine Bander\n“Reading with Jane Austen sets out to help us re-see the great novelist’s aims and achievements by carefully\, clearly\, and productively describing them alongside the significant writings of her best-loved contemporaries. Elaine Bander’s fine book will have you rereading Austen in engaging\, surprising\, and powerful new ways.” —Devoney Looser\, author of Wild for Austen: A Rebellious\, Subversive\, and Untamed Jane \n“Reading with Elaine Bander is a delicious and rewarding experience. She introduces us to the authors and the books that Jane Austen and her readers loved and admired\, tracing the ways Austen both subverts conventions and clichés and reimagines what the novel can be. Reading with Jane Austen is a gift.” —Susan Allen Ford\, author of What Jane Austen’s Characters Read (and Why) \n“Light\, bright\, and sparkling\, Bander’s account of her own life of teaching and writing under the sign of Austen brought me enormous delight and deserves a place in every Austen fan’s library.” —Jenny Davidson\, author of Reading Jane Austen \n“Reading with Jane Austen is a meticulous and innovative study illuminating the literary culture that shaped Austen’s art. With scholarly precision and fresh insights\, Elaine Bander draws on a lifetime spent with Austen and her precursors to reconstruct what Austen read and might have read—revealing new dimensions of her taste\, intelligence\, and creative engagement.” —Peter Sabor\, coeditor of Jane Austen’s Manuscript Works \n“A long-awaited manuscript from a respected Austen scholar\, Elaine Bander’s Reading with Jane Austen offers significant insights into Austen’s creative process.” —Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey\, author of Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-reading-with-jane-austen-by-elaine-bander/
LOCATION:Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore\, 2220 McGill College Ave\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3A 3P9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Soliloquies Anthology 30.2 LAUNCH Party!
DESCRIPTION:Soliloquies Anthology\, Concordia’s undergraduate journal in its 30th iteration\, is launching our final issue of the year on April 30th.\nEvent will take place at Bar Le Record (near Jean-Talon metro) from 6pm-9pm. Reading will begin promptly\, so don’t be late! \nIssue 30.2 is filled with impressive poetry and prose submitted by writers of all ages and backgrounds from across Canada (not just students). \nThe launch will include speeches from our Co-Editors-in-Chief\, readings from contributing authors and introductions from members of our masthead. \nCome on out to support and engage with the community. All are welcome! \nPWYC (5$ recommended donation)\, no one turned away for lack of funds.\nIssues will be on sale. Drinks and food available at the bar.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/soliloquies-anthology-30-2-launch-party/
LOCATION:Bar Le Record\, 7622 Rue St-Hubert\, Montréal\, Quebec\, H2R 2N6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
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