Results tagged “reads”

Hanging out in the city with Torontoist's Summer Reads.

Heather O’Neill’s debut novel Lullabies for Little Criminals has been garnering rave reviews since it’s release this past October. Cementing her reputation as one of Canada's break-out authors of 2006, O'Neill's book has been included in the 2007 Canada Reads competition, held by CBC Radio, having been nominated by John Samson of The Weakerthans. The book is one of five finalists.

This is first installment of a new Torontoist column - Torontoist Reads - that will feature reviews of new books by Toronto authors and interviews with the authors themselves. This week, Torontoist is pleased to feature Consolation, by poet, playwright, and novelist, Michael Redhill. Redhill is the author of the novel Martin Sloane, the short story collection Fidelity, as well as several collections of poetry and the plays Goodness and Building Jerusalem.

If authors Thomas King and Joseph Boyden ever teamed up as Can-Lit superheroes this could be their secret identities.

The Toronto blogosphere is abuzz with the Star's "What If" special issue that ran this Sunday. The special issue was a number of think pieces on how the city could be drastically improved.

Welcome to our new revived self-indulgent weekly feature, Torontoist Reads, where we will blab on and on about whatever book we happen to be enjoying at the moment and it will probably have almost nothing to do with Toronto, except that you can often spot us reading on the TTC, especially at this time of year.

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