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Type Books Celebrates 10 Years in Business
New Children’s Book Explores 1931 Dressmakers’ Strike
Launching on Sunday, the book offers a fictionalized version of a landmark Toronto labour struggle.
Beyond Words: Toronto Grows Its Own LGBTQ Literary Festival
The Naked Heart literary festival gives voice to the queer community in Toronto and beyond.
Historicist: Learning the Writer’s Craft
Spoken Word Takes a Turn for the Outrageous
How a new spoken word series is turning heads and making friends by breaking all the rules.
Shakespeare’s First Folio on Display at U of T Rare Book Library
Apparently age cannot wither the 400-year-old tome, nor custom stale its infinite variety.
Historicist: Revealing Fictions
Bestselling author Mazo de la Roche's private life with Caroline Clement.
Reading Your Way Through Toronto
The Toronto Public Library has produced a literary map of Toronto neighbourhoods.
2013 Villain: David Gilmour
Nominated for: sending women writers "down the hall."
Historicist: One Drink Too Many, and a Thousand Not Enough
Brendan Behan gets arrested and nearly dies in Toronto.
Sleuthing Sherlock Holmes
A new exhibit spotlights the Toronto Public Library's Arthur Conan Doyle collection.
Twenty Years Ago, Salman Rushdie Surprised Toronto
The author shocked an audience of literati with his appearance at a PEN Benefit on December 7, 1992.
George Elliott Clarke Is Toronto’s New Poet Laureate
The renowned writer will become the official face of literary Toronto.
bpNichol Chapbook Award Winner Announced
Adrienne Gruber wins a prestigious chapbook award for Mimic, her collection of poetry.
The International Festival of Authors Returns to the Harbourfront Centre
Things to see and do at this year's IFOA.
Toronto Women’s Bookstore is Closing for Good
After 39 years, the feminist bookseller is shutting its doors.
The Down-low on The Word on the Street
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