Event photo roundup: Miriam Toews comes to Vancouver, and more
Miriam Toews has accepted a short writer-in-residence gig at the University of British Columbia, and this week Toews’ agent, Carolyn Swayze, held a soiree at Christianne’s Lyceum of Art & Literature in Kitsilano to welcome the author to Vancouver. Below, Swayze and Toews chat; visible in the background (right) is Bill Richardson. (Photo by kc dyer.)
(More photos after the jump.)
Ready for her closeup: Maureen Jennings backstage at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre on March 5. She was there to read from her new novel, The K Handshape. (Photo courtesy of Dundurn Press.)
One perk of being an MP is getting some big names at your book launch. Liberal leader Stéphane Dion supports his party member Garth Turner at the Parliament Hill launch of Turner’s new book, Greater Fool: The Troubled Future of Real Estate. (Photo courtesy of Key Porter Books.)
Sandra Gulland does a “reverse striptease” at a This Is Not a Reading Series event for her new novel, Mistress of the Sun (HarperCollins Canada) in Toronto on March 4. (Photo by Chris Reed.)
