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    “GONZO NATURALIST” ALEX SHOUMATOFF ON HUMAN GREED, ECOCIDE AND THE PLIGHT OF THE GIRAFFE

    60min | english

    Matt Zimbel, Alex Shoumatoff

    Prominent literary journalist Alex Shoumatoff (The Wasting of Borneo: Dispatches From a Vanishing World), the author of eleven books and more than a hundred pieces for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair ...

    Adult, Who’s afraid of the past ? Who’s afraid of the future ? |

    Saturday Apr. 29 2017 3:30 PM Salle Jardin (Hôtel 10)
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    DENISE DONLON : FEARLESS, FEMINIST AND A FORCE FOR GOOD

    60min | english

    Matt Zimbel, Denise Donlon

    Denise Donlon's critically acclaimed memoir, As Fearless as Possible (Under the Circumstances), is an inspirational and hilarious take on feminism, leadership and pop culture. From heavy touring ...

    Adult, Women and Words | Women/Feminism

    Friday Apr. 28 2017 7:00 PM Salle Jardin (Hôtel 10)
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    THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING: 50 YEARS OF AISLIN’S POLITICAL CARTOONS

    60min | english

    Matt Zimbel, Aislin

    It's been said that politics is show business for ugly people. That's an idea celebrated political cartoonist Aislin has perpetuated for 50 years. With a new book (From Trudeau to Trudeau: Fifty ...

    Adult | Politics

    Saturday Apr. 29 2017 11:00 AM Musée McCord
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    MON PÈRE, CET INCONNU

    60min | french

    Danielle Laurin, Laurent Seksik

    La vie de l'écrivain Romain Gary (alias Émile Ajar) a fasciné plus d'un biographe. Mais une pièce du puzzle a été souvent négligée: le père. Après Stefan Zweig ou le fils d'Einstein, le ...

    Adult, Who’s afraid of the past ? Who’s afraid of the future ? | Biography/Memoir

    Thursday Apr. 27 2017 6:00 PM Librairie Gallimard
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    NEVER APART LEGENDS SERIES: ONE ON ONE WITH SKY GILBERT

    60min | english

    Sky Gilbert, John Custodio

    A one-on-one interview with writer, director, drag queen extraordinaire and co-founder of Toronto's Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Sky Gilbert, whose latest book, Sad Old Faggot, is a work of ...

    Adult, LGBTQ Series | LGBT

    Thursday Apr. 27 2017 7:00 PM Never Apart
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    NOIR COMME LA VIE

    90min | french

    Marie Barguirdjian, Michel Pastoureau

    Le petit Pierre n'aimait pas le noir. Il en avait même peur. Jusqu'au jour où il a compris toute la subtilité de cette couleur. Avec l'album Pierre n'a plus peur du noir (éd. Privat), ...

    Adult, Who’s afraid of the past ? Who’s afraid of the future ? | Youth

    Thursday Apr. 27 2017 9:30 AM Librairie Gallimard
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    A TALE OF TWO NOVELS

    60min | english

    Stephen Henighan, Ingrid Bejerman

    Prodigious and productive writer Stephen Henighan talks about his two latest novels, The Path of the Jaguar (Thistledown Press) and Mr. Singh Among the Fugitives (LLP), with Ingrid Bejerman

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    Saturday Apr. 29 2017 2:00 PM Librairie Las Américas