Best of the fest
Just a reminder that Ontario’s largest summer literary gathering, the Leacock Summer Festival in Orillia, is under way this week and continues through the weekend.
Hosted by the Leacock Museum (a national historic site), the festival features readings, speeches, and dinners. Some of this year’s highlights include Leacock Medal for Humour winner Terry Fallis appearing July 25; University of Toronto philosophy professor and author Mark Kingwell expounds on his latest book, Concrete Reveries, on July 26; and the festival wraps up July 27 with an afternoon reading by authors Diane Schoemperlen, David Gilmour, and Jane Urquhart, as well as an evening birthday barbeque for Giller Prize-winning novelist Austin Clarke.
