Every Tuesday afternoon, Torontoist rounds up the city's literary news, including book deals, events, local sales, author happenings, and insider information from the book industry. The brilliantly self-deprecating humourist David Sedaris is coming to Canada to promote the release of what has been descibed as an older and wiser essay collection, When You Are Engulfed in Flames. The Toronto events on his Canadian mini-tour happen Thursday and Friday at the Manulife Centre Indigo and Ben......

Sure New York based writer Jonathan Ames looks like a badass in this photo, with his fists up in the air like he's ready to deck Torontoist. But after reading his collection of essays I Love You More Than You Know we know that Ames, can be a big softie (he dedicates the book to his great-aunt and the title of the book is inspired by something she said to him). Heck, Ames even describes......

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Augusten Burroughs, former adman with credit card debts, and present essayist, speaks at Innis Town Hall at 8pm, as part of This Is Not a Reading Series. Burroughs is frequently compared to that other gay essayist, David Sedaris, but isn't bothered by the comparison. You can listen to clips from his latest, Magical Thinking, on his site. Torontoist is keen on any literature that involves TANG, a beverage on which Burroughs has been known to......