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Dundurn launch for Jan Rubes’ biography

Dundurn Press held a launch for actor and singer Jan Rubes’ biography Jan Rubes: A Man of Many Talents at The Arts & Letters Club in Toronto. Photos courtesy of Meisner Publicity.

Jan Rubes (left) and author Ezra Schabas (right) both signed copies of the book.

Beth Bruder (left) of Dundurn taking care of business.

Actor Saul Rubinek and Jan Rubes work with the camera.

Charles Taylor Foundation gives books to America

The Charles Taylor Prize for the Literay Non-Fiction has donated almost 100 books to Canada’s embassy in Washington D.C. The gift was presented at the IFOA in Toronto. Photos courtesy of the Charles Taylor Foundation.

Carolyn Strauss, culture and outreach counsellor with the Canadian embassy in Washington, speaks to the crowd at the IFOA, with author and host for the evening, Charlotte Gray, in the background.

Charles Taylor prize administrator June Dickenson presents the books to Strauss.

Rudy Wiebe, whose book Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest won this year’s Charles Taylor prize, with Strauss.

Chef Morimoto’s Canadian tour

Chef Masaharu Morimoto, a Japanese chef who has appeared on The Iron Chef, tours Canada in support of his first cookbook, Morimoto – The New Art of Japanese Cooking. Photos courtesy of Chris Houston.

Morimoto makes an appearance at the MTV Cookoff.

Morimoto poses with Canada AM hosts Beverly Thomson, Seamus O’Regan, and Jeff Hutcheson.

Chris Houston, marketing director for Tourmaline Editions/DK Publishing, chums around with Morimoto

Morimoto and Jelena Adjic, host of CBC’s The Scene.

Scenes from the 2007 IFOA

The 28th annual edition of the International Festival of Authors at Harbourfront in Toronto ran from Oct. 17-27. Here are pictures from just some of the dozens of readings, onstage interviews, signings, and, of course, parties that happened during the festival.

Antanas Sileika chats with The Walrus‘s Daniel Baird at the IFOA’s Welcome Party. (Courtesy of the IFOA)

Scottish writer A.L. Kennedy reads at the 40th Anniversary gala for House of Anansi Press. (Julie Wilson/Courtesy of House of Anansi)

Graeme Gibson reads at Anansi’s 40th. (Julie Wilson/Courtesy of House of Anansi)

Birthday cake for Anansi’s 40th. (Julie Wilson/Courtesy of House of Anansi)

Barbara Berson and Sam Hiyate at the Penguin Canada party. (Courtesy of Penguin Canada)

Penguin Canada’s Melanie Storoschuk and The Globe and Mail‘s Martin Levin tell us all to Live Long and Prosper. (Courtesy of Penguin Canada)

Author Celestine Hitiura Vaite and Pat Donnelly of the Montreal Gazette. (Courtesy of Penguin Canada)

Jonathan Garfinkel and Helen Oyeyemi. (Courtesy of Pengiun Canada)

D.R. MacDonald and Michael Winter, who appeared together at the Gallery on the Bay in Hamilton, Ontario. (Courtesy of the IFOA)

Bookseller Ben McNally interviews British novelist Will Self. (Courtesy of the IFOA)

Marina Lewycka and Vendela Vida are interviewed by The Globe and Mail‘s Sandra Martin. (Courtesy of the IFOA)

David Thewlis at the IFOA

Actor (and now author) David Thewlis came to this year’s International Festival of Authors at Harbourfront in Toronto to chat about his first novel, The Late Hector Kipling (Viking Canada).

Thewlis can make ‘em laugh merely by pointing at his own chin. Only Penguin publicity manager Debbie Gaudet, lurking in the background, seems unamused. (From left: Titus McNally, Rupert McNally, singer/songwriter Tom Phillips, Gaudet, Thewlis, Ben McNally.) Photo courtesy of the IFOA.

Picnicking indoors with Open Book

Open Book: Toronto, along with Mabel’s Fables, hosted Mini Lit: An Indoor Family Picnic at Toronto’s Drake Hotel on Oct. 13. The event was packed with both authors and kiddies. (Photos courtesy of Lisa Myers/Open Book: Toronto)

Sean Dixon plays a little banjo.

Loris Lesynski reads from Dirty Dog Boogie.

One of the kid-friendly snacks available. (Where’s the tomato soup?)

Open Book’s pajama party

On Oct. 9, Open Book: Toronto and SheDoesTheCity.com hosted “Under the Covers: Bedtime Stories for Adults” at Toronto’s Gladstone Hotel. (Photos courtesy of Lisa Myers/Open Book:Toronto)

We see England, we see France: Jenn Perras of rock-it promotions (with pink teddy bear) and Bruce Couture.

Open Book’s Amy Logan Holmes chats with Jen McNeely of SheDoesTheCity.com.

McNeely addresses the crowd.

Zoe Whittall reads from Bottle Rocket Hearts while actor Jackie English lounges. We haven’t seen this many visible thongs since the Clinton administration… (Ba-da-doom crash! Thank you, you’re a great audience…)

Howard Engel doesn’t read, but he does get interviewed

Given the fact that his memoir is entitled The Man Who Forgot How to Read, author Howard Engel’s appearance at the Burlington Public Library’s Engaging Ideas series was not a reading, but an onstage interview with Cynthia Good. (Photo courtesy of A Different Drummer Books)

Cynthia Good and Howard Engel.

Brian Joseph Davis launches I, Tania

Brian Joseph Davis launched his new book, I, Tania (ECW Press), a parodic goof on the Patty Hearst story, at Supermarket in Toronto’s Kensington Market on Oct. 10. (Photos courtesy of ECW Press)

Poet a. rowlings reads from Libra by Don Delillo, one of the books Davis riffs upon in I, Tania.

Vice magazine’s Carolyn Tripp, Brian Joseph Davis, Bill Kennedy of Coach House Books, and Eye Weekly�s Chris Randle.

Damian Rogers reads from Little Girl Lost by Drew Barrymore, another riffed-on book.

ECW Press editor Michael Holmes chats with Darren Wershler-Henry.