Catherine Gildiner Catherine Gildiner’s (Canada) childhood memoir Too Close to the Falls was a New York Times and Globe and Mail bestseller. The sequel, After the Falls, was also a bestseller, and her novel, Seduction, was published to international acclaim. She presents the third and final volume of her memoir series, Coming Ashore. Picking up her story in the late ’60s at age 21, Gildiner determinedly blazes her own trail through all the passion and uncertainty that comes with the cusp of adulthood. ROUND TABLE: Saturday, November 1, 7:30pm. LST ROUND TABLE: Sunday, November 2, 12pm. SDT
Robert Glancy
Supported by New Zealand Book Council
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Robert Glancy (New Zealand) was born in Zambia in 1975 and raised in Malawi. At 14, he moved from Africa to Edinburgh, and then went on to study history at Cambridge. By day he works in PR and by night he writes. Glancy currently lives in New Zealand with his wife and children. He presents his riotously funny and slyly insightful debut novel, Terms & Conditions, about a contracts lawyer who thinks and lives in the fine print. READING: Saturday, October 25, 4pm. SDT ROUND TABLE: Sunday, October 26, 3pm. FDT
Helle V. Goldman Supported by ECW Press
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Helle V. Goldman (USA) spent her childhood on the Greek island of Hydra and in Providence, Rhode Island. She resides with her husband and daughter on yet another island, this time in Norway, where she is the chief editor of an international scientific journal. She presents So Long, Marianne, which she translated into English from author Kari Hesthamar’s Norwegian. The book chronicles the story of Leonard Cohen’s lover and muse, Marianne Ihlen. ROUND TABLE: Saturday, October 25, 4pm. LST
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LEGEND BRG: Brigantine Room FDT: Fleck Dance Theatre LST: Lakeside Terrace Box Office/Info: 416-973-4000 ifoa.org
SDT: Studio Theatre