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......

In the fall of 1979, 21-year-old Terry Fox, recovering from a recent lower-leg amputation, devised a plan to help support the thousands of Canadians who, like him, had faced off with cancer. He would run across Canada, beginning in St. John's, Newfoundland, and wrapping up on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Figuring the journey would take roughly five months, Fox hoped to raise $1 for every Canadian man, woman and child. The Canadian......

Every major media outlets is touting this summer as one of the worst construction seasons ever. The Gardiner is closed this weekend and other major thoroughfares like the DVP will also be affected by construction throughout the summer. Loblaws settled their Hepatitis A suit offering $150 to anyone who consulted their doctor or got a Hep A shot. Four years ago a Loblaws employee was diagnosed with Hep A and sparked a major health scare.......

There's both a huge ad and an article in today's Globe about the 6,500 pairs of Adidas trainers, replicas of the ones worn by Terry Fox on his run, that go on sale today. The shoes, sold exclusively at Sportchek, will retail for $100 and sales of the retro navy kicks are expected to raise $500,000 for cancer research. The Orion was launched in 1979, and though Terry went through nine left shoes, he......