Bookish Events

Jeffrey Eugenides Talks

Buried In Print2014-03-15T16:25:00-04:00

Appearing at the Appel salon in the Toronto Reference Library tonight, to a sold-out crowd, he spoke about his new novel, The Marriage Plot, his earlier works, and the writing life. (Spoiler-free, of course.) The Marriage Plot grew out of his own experiences at Brown in the 1980s (Madeleine, Leonard

Jeffrey Eugenides TalksBuried In Print2014-03-15T16:25:00-04:00

Read-a-thon Autumn 2011

Buried In Print2011-11-02T19:52:31-04:00

When I first posted about the read-a-thon last Saturday, this stack was hiding its spines. But here you can see all the tasty reads that I'm eyeing for this weekend. Yes, they are all somehow food-related. I haven't leafed through them yet (you know that can be the most savoury

Read-a-thon Autumn 2011Buried In Print2011-11-02T19:52:31-04:00

Ever-evolving TBR list

Buried In Print2012-04-17T15:35:27-04:00

A couple of weekends ago, I was able to attend an event which included three novelists from Africa: Brian Chikwava (Zimbabwe), Carole Enahoro (Nigeria) and Ngūgī wa Thiong'o (Kenya). They focussed on the following works, respectively: Harare North, Doing Dangerously Well, and Dreams in a Time of War. And, so,

Ever-evolving TBR listBuried In Print2012-04-17T15:35:27-04:00