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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.

Photo detail of Shary Boyle's Ouroboros, courtesy of Conundrum Press.

"March of the Penguins" by BrynJ.

Photo by Lee Towndrow.

Tomorrow night promises to be a great time for book lovers in Toronto. This Is Not A Reading Series presents what is perhaps their most anticipated event of the season as author Vendela Vida comes to town.

Sheila Heti (pictured here hiding behind this chair) is one of the many artists invited by the Music Gallery for its fundraiser "Compose Yourself."

Does Toronto’s literary scene have a massive insecurity complex? Judging from the three panelists to Toronto Life’s recent fiction roundtable the answer would have to be yes.

at the Gladstone. We hosted a marshmallow-and-toothpick building contest (because we're actually about five-years-old) and we got some fabulous entries from aspiring alternative architects of all ages - all eager to recreate their favourite Toronto landmarks in marshmallow. And then we all got tummy-aches from eating too much of the building material.

Maggie MacDonald is a busy woman. As one of the most visible members of the Hidden Cameras, MacDonald is often seen on Toronto's stages bopping along to Joel Gibb's catchy anthems to enemas, fear of commitment and golden showers. MacDonald also plays in a number of other bands in the city including the Dating Service and Republic of Safety. So it's not like she needs another project on her plate.

- Word on the Street this Sunday. And this year's line-up looks great. The site doesn't say when each author will speak (annoying) so you'll just have to make a day of it. TOist crush D Bez will be at the Toronto Book Award tent, along with Paul Smith spokesman Russell Smith. Sheila Heti, David Layton and numerous others will read. And TOist, along with a handful of great local bloggers, will participate in a blog panel at 4:15pm, thoughtfully organized by Spacing's Matt B.

We crawled Queen West alongside Atom Egoyan and the Missus this weekend. In a gallery, they seemed not too interested in Mr. Nobody, and quite a bit interested in a stunning red painting. Only moments later our friend pointed out Sheila Heti and the Mr. And only a bit earlier in the weekend we'd seen our favourite Aunties & Uncles waiter eating at Kalendar. Is that allowed?

Toronto writer Sheila Heti waxes romantic about The Arcade Fire in the new issue of Walrus magazine. Her contribution to the summer "Love Letters" feature is addressed to Régine and makes reference to digging tunnels, naming babies and other activities held sacred by Montreal’s finest. The note, affectionately signed ‘W’, could or could not be inspired by the Fire’s spring show at the Danforth Music Hall. The magazine is on newsstands now and also features love notes from the likes of Douglas Coupland, Margaret Atwood and Leonard Cohen.

Although the temperature is still unwilling to creep above freezing and the only buds you'll see are outside the Hot Box Cafe, there are signs that spring is slowly coming; like the first Trampoline Hall of 2005 at Sneaky Dee's on Monday March 21st (8pm SHARP).

In case you were wondering, in protagonist George Ticknor, "Sheila Heti has created a memorable new hero of Prufrockian dimension," or so sayeth Anansi. In a , Penguin Great Ideas wants to "bring you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are."