By Hamutal Dotan

Every morning during the International Festival of Authors we’ll be previewing the day’s events and making our picks for the ones that seem most promising.

Around the world in a stack of books. Illustration by Sasha Plotnikova/Torontoist.

Today’s Events
8 p.m. — Reading: Kyle Buckley, Robert Girardi, James Meek, Kate Pullinger (Brigantine Room)
8 p.m. — Reading: Tash Aw, Andrea De Carlo, Jason Guriel, Colm Tóibín (Fleck Dance Theatre)
8 p.m. — Reading: John Bemrose, Michael Crummey, Jacob McArthur Mooney, Leon Rooke (Lakeside Terrace)
8 p.m. — Reading: Ron Butlin, Giles Foden, Eric Laurrent, Tessa McWatt, Michael Turner (Studio Theatre)
Authors from around the world, and authors taking us on journeys around the world: It’s one of the purposes of the International Festival of Authors and one of its great benefits. It’s also the theme of the reading we’ll be attending tonight and about which we’ve been excited since the IFOA programme was released. Tash Aw, Andrea De Carlo, Jason Guriel, and Colm Tóibín take us to Indonesia and back, and do so in some of the best prose being published in English right now.