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Photo courtesy of WordFest. This Thursday the Toronto Reference Library will host a LongPen event with Margaret Atwood—inventor of the device—who will interview BBC personality and author Kate Mosse (not the model), who will be in Sussex, England. Conducted via video conferencing, Mosse will read from her newest work, Sepulchre, and answer audience questions, and will be able to sign books with the LongPen. Mosse's book will be available through Nicholas Hoare Books at...

Sure, the National Bridal Show might not be starting for another couple of weeks (and Canada's Bridal Show has already ended), but that’s not stopping Random House from holding their own wedding-themed event on Monday evening.

The story goes that editors Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson were having lunch one day when they decided that, even with all the good the feminist movement had done, there were still so many unanswered questions; ones that some were afraid to ask or that took them by surprise. They commissioned a number of women writers to give it a voice and Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told was the result.

Today Joe Fiorito launched his new book, Union Station, at the Nicholas Hoare book store.

, previously (and, the general consensus is, egregiously) overlooked on the Giller shortlist. Most of the nominated authors were not in attendance, however, as the shortlist was top secret until Monday morning - we even saw a couple of excitable Thomas Allen reps race outside with their cellphones, presumably to make ecstatic calls to their authors. But either Russell Smith talks too fast, or people were too distracted by the danishes to pay attention to him, because not three minutes after the shortlist was announced everyone was clamouring for those bookmarks that list all the nominees. Doesn't anyone in this town take notes anymore? Click here for the full list of nominees.

Tall Poppy Interview - Cecil Castellucci, Writer