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Letters to Elyse*

Submitted by zwhittall on October 29, 2007 - 8:38pm
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Letters to Elyse*

I mentioned to everyone I met this week (and on the Now blog) just how much I loved hearing Elyse Friedman read a short story at the House of Anansi 40th Anniversary party at the IFOA. I spend a lot of time at literary events making sure my dates have enough alcohol and are kept entertained during the boring bits, and Elyse kept us both spine-straight and clutching our guts.

Thanks to Patchy Squirrel List-serve for the reminder! I will definitely walk out my door and across the park for this one:

ELYSE FRIEDMAN BOOK LAUNCH
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Thursday, November 1, 7:30 pm.
Type Books, 883 Queen West
Free.

Elyse Friedman's Long Story Short (Anansi)

Very short reading. Libations/Merriment

www.elysefriedman.com

* couldn't resist the Cure reference

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Thursday’s Featured YA Book: Death in Kingsport

Curtis Parkinson, author of Death in Kingsport and Sea Chase, will be signing books at Word On The Street this Sunday in Queen’s Park. Curtis will be at the Ideaspace Young Adult Marquee at 11:00 a.m. and at the Crime Writers of Canada booth from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Death in Kingsport
by Curtis Parkinson
Tundra Books, 2007
Ages 10-14
224 pages
$14.99

Kingsport, a small town on the shores of Lake Ontario, is struggling through the fall and winter of 1941 in the aftermath of the Great Depression. For fifteen-year-old Neil, life is simple and routine, until his favorite uncle, Chester, suddenly dies, and he is engulfed by an aching loneliness. At his uncle’s cremation aboard a freighter in the harbor, Neil has a strange sense of foreboding as he inadvertently hears a thumping sound inside the coffin. Could Uncle Chester be alive?

Zoe Whittall

Zoe Whittall is the author of the novel Bottle Rocket Hearts (Cormorant, 2007) and two volumes of poetry, The Emily Valentine Poems (Snare, 2006) and The Best Ten Minutes of Your Life (McGilligan, 2001).

Go to Zoe Whittall’s Author Page