Photo by EIFF. Next week on October 17th, the International Festival of Authors will kick off its 28th year since its inception in 1980 at the Premiere Dance Theatre (207 Queens Quay West). Incorporating some of the best contemporary world literature, the festival is comprised of eleven days and nights of readings, interviews, round-table discussions, lectures, and book signings—not to mention special event readings by Scotiabank Giller Prize and Governor General’s Literary Awards finalists.......

Originally published by Viking Press in 1957, Jack Kerouac's On the Road has been wearing holes in the back pockets and floppy canvas knapsacks of gaggles of come-find-yourself road trippers and college-aged who-am-I types ever since. To coincide with the 50th anniversary of its publication, Wednesday night will see the Gladstone play host to something of a symposium on the life and legacy of their main man, Kerouac. Authors Ray Robertson and David Creighton will......

Photo by bitefight from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Torontoist has a soft spot in our heart for CBC Radio One. We kind of want Stuart McLean to be our grandfather, we can often be seen funking out and/or singing along to the addictive theme song of The Current, and we think that Jian Ghomeshi is just dreamy. The summer, however, brings strange and disturbing changes to everyone’s favourite public broadcaster—the summer schedule, full of......

As was reported in last Saturday's Globe and Mail, the CBC is in dire need of our help. And it's not exactly for funding or to fill an empty archives position -- it seems that there have been a number of strange occurrences in and around the Mother Corp recently. The CBC Radio has put Promo Girl on the case, who is making public appeals for help with the mysteries. This week, it appears that......