2006 Winter-Spring Author Series
The Princess Twin Cinema is at 46 King St. N., between Princess and Dupont.
The Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery is at The Centre in the Square, 101 Queen St N, Kitchener.
First United Church is at the corner of King St.South and William St. (half a block from the bookstore).
Jane Bond Cafe opposite the original Princess Cinema, Princess & King Sts., Waterloo
The Waterloo Entertainment Centre is the former Waterloo Stage Theatre, at King St N. and Erb St, Waterloo.
Conrad Grebel College is on 150 Westmount Rd.N. at University.
Thursday
Feb. 2
Princess
Twin Cinema
7:00pm
$25. Devyani Saltzman, daughter of film director Deepa Mehta, will talk about her book, Shooting Water – a mother-daughter journey and the making of a film. Her talk will be preceded by a showing of Water, Mehta’s final release in her Elements film trilogy after Fire and Earth. It has been nominated for 9 Genie Awards.
Water examines the lives of Indian widows in the 1930s and centres on a seven-year-old who is brought to a widow house after the death of her 50-year-old husband. Young and innocent, precocious and defiant, Chuyia refuses to accept her fate and rebels against the traditional role that society has dealt her. The film production began in February 2000 in Benares, India, but quickly became the target of vicious attacks by Hindu fundamentalists who accused Mehta of creating a negative portrayal of India. Sets were destroyed, effigies of the director were burned, Mehta’s life was threatened – within a week the filming was shut down.
So begins the five-year odyssey that culminated in the completion of Water at a secret location in Sri Lanka. Mehta’s daughter Devyani Saltzman traveled to Benares to reunite with her mother and work on the film. Part Jewish (her divorced father is Canadian producer and director Paul Saltzman), part Hindu, Devyani has spent her life navigating between two people, two religions, and two cultures. Shooting Water chronicles her life-changing experience in India, and through the struggle to produce a film, the emergence of a deeper love and mutual recognition between mother and daughter.
This event begins at 7pm with a showing of Water, followed by a reading and question and answer session with the author. Tickets are $25., with proceeds going to Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan. (we last worked with this organization in May 2005 with Nelofer Pazira and the Kandahar film.)
Tuesday
Feb. 21
KW Art Gallery (101 Queens St. N, Kitchener)
7:30pm
$8.
The Judgment of Paris (Random $35.) is the fascinating new book
by the author of Brunelleschi’s Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope’s
Ceiling: a saga of artistic rivalry and cultural upheaval in the decade
leading to the birth of Impressionism.
If there were two men who were absolutely central to artistic life in France
in the second half of the nineteenth century, they were Edouard Manet and Ernest
Meissonier. While the former has been labelled the “Father of Impressionism”
and is today a household name, the latter has sunk into obscurity. It is difficult
now to believe that in 1864, when this story begins, it was Meissonier who
was considered the greatest French artist alive and who received astronomical
sums for his work, while Manet was derided for his messy paintings of ordinary
people and had great difficulty getting any of his work accepted at the all-important
Paris Salon.
Manet and Meissonier were the Mozart and Salieri of their day, one a dangerous
challenge to the establishment, the other beloved by rulers and the public
alike for his meticulous oil paintings of historical subjects. Out of the fascinating
story of their parallel careers, Ross King creates a lens through which to
view the political tensions that dogged Louis-Napoleon during the Second Empire,
his ignominious downfall, and the bloody Paris Commune of 1871.
Ross King was born in Alberta and now lives near Oxford, England.
Lynn Coady & Leah McLaren
Thursday
Mar 16
Waterloo Entertainment
Centre 730 pm $8.
Small-town budding poet, Lawrence Campbell, is fascinated by his poetry professor, the charismatic and uncompromising Jim Arsenault. Larry is determined to escape a life of thrifty drudgery and intellectual poverty working for his parents’ motel and mini-golf business on Prince Edward Island. Jim appears to the young poet as a beacon of authenticity – mercurial, endlessly creative, fearless in his confrontations with the forces of conformity. And he drinks a lot.
Closely observed and deeply funny, Mean Boy (Doubleday $29.95) tells the story of Larry’s year-long battle against the indiscriminate use of quotation marks in advertising and his disillusionment as his narcissistic, hard-drinking idol spins out of control and threatens to take the young man’s cherished notions about art and poetry down with him. Mean Boy is Lynn Coady’s most polished and ambitious work to date. Set in the seventies, it took me back to all those earnest wordsmiths in university.
Lynn Coady was nominated for the 1998 Governor General’s Award for Fiction for her first novel, Strange Heaven. She received the Canadian Author’s Association/Air Canada Award for the best writer under thirty. Her second book, Play the Monster Blind, was a national bestseller and a Best Book of 2000 for The Globe and Mail; Saints of Big Harbour, also a bestseller, was a Globe and Mail Best Book in 2002. Her articles and reviews have appeared in several publications including Saturday Night, This magazine, and Chatelaine. Lynn Coady was born in Cape Breton and now lives in Edmonton.
The Continuity Girl (HarperCollins $18.95) is Meredith Moore: reluctant daughter, devoted friend, flawless continuity girl, raging sperm bandit.
Meredith Moore is the perfect continuity girl. An on-set film script supervisor, it is her job to make sure every frame of the picture is consistent with the one before. She is the error catcher. The needle-in-the-haystack finder. A cigarette in the left hand when it should be in the right, a prematurely melted
ice cube in a half-empty glass of Scotch, a stray lock of an actor’s hair—these
are the details by which she measures out her life.But when Meredith wakes up on the morning of her 35th birthday yearning for a baby, her personal sense of continuity is thrown into flux. Determined not to marry, she impulsively flees to London to reunite with her eccentric single mother and accept a new job on a well-known producer’s film set. Her covert plan: to become a Sperm Bandit and find an unsuspecting donor to father her child.
Navigating London’s murky social waters, Meredith is thrown into a strange new story, one that quickly spins out of control. In her quest to get pregnant on her own terms, she will accidentally uncover a web of secrets that will change the way she envisions both her working life and the nature of love.
Leah McLaren is best known for her popular weekly column in The Globe and Mail’s Style section. In 2002 she acted as the paper’s London arts correspondent. Her writing has been published in The Times of London, The London Evening Standard, The Sunday Telegraph and The Spectator magazine. She now divides her time between Toronto and a farm in Grafton, Ontario. This is her first novel.
Saturday
Apr. 1
First United Church 2 pm $8.
co-sponsored by St.Jerome's Centre for Catholic Experience,
The Canadian Centre for Progressive Christianity
and Interfaith Grand River.
A dollar per ticket was
donated to WISH- Waterloo Interfaith Supportive Housing: total donation $500.
From one of the world’s leading writers on religion and the highly acclaimed
author of the bestselling A History of God, The Battle for God and
The Spiral Staircase, comes a major new work, The Great Transformation
(Knopf $39.95): a chronicle of one of the most important intellectual revolutions
in world history and its relevance to our own time.
In one astonishing, short period – the ninth century BCE – the peoples of four
distinct regions of the civilized world created the religious and philosophical
traditions that have continued to nourish humanity into the present day: Confucianism
and Daoism in China; Hinduism and Buddhism in India; monotheism in Israel;
and philosophical rationalism in Greece. Historians call this the Axial Age
because of its central importance to humanity’s spiritual development. Now,
Karen Armstrong traces the rise and development of this
transformative moment in history, examining the brilliant contributions to
these traditions made by such figures as the Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and
Ezekiel.
Armstrong makes clear that despite some differences of emphasis, there was
remarkable consensus among these religions and philosophies: each insisted
on the primacy of compassion over hatred and violence. She illuminates what
this “family” resemblance reveals about the religious impulse and quest of
humankind. And she goes beyond spiritual archaeology, delving into the ways
in which these Axial Age beliefs can present an instructive and thought-provoking
challenge to the ways we think about and practice religion today.
A revelation of humankind’s early shared imperatives, yearnings and inspired
solutions – as salutary as it is fascinating.
Karen Armstrong was hosted by Words Worth Books in April 2004 before a large
crowd at St. Jerome's University. She is the author of numerous books on religious
affairs. Her work has been translated into 40 languages and she is the author
of 3 television documentaries. Since September 11, 2001, she has been a frequent
contributor to conferences, panels, newspapers, periodicals, and other media
on both sides of the Atlantic on the subject of Islam. She lives in London.
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Monday Apr 10 Jane Bond Café 7pm $3.cover
Poetry with Margaret Christakos (Sooner), Darren Wershler-Henry (Tapeworm Foundry), Emily Pohl-Weary (Iron-on Constellations), and Karen Solie (Modern & Normal)
Margaret Christakos' poetry collections
are Sooner (Coach House, 2005), Excessive Love Prostheses (Coach House, 2002),
which won the 2003 ReLit Award for Poetry, Wipe Under A Love (The Mansfield
Press, 2000), The Moment Coming (ECW Press, 1998), Other Words for Grace (The
Mercury Press, 1994) and Not Egypt (Coach House, 1989). Her novel Charisma
(Pedlar Press, 2000), was shortlisted for the Ontario Trillium Award. In 2004–05,
she held a Canada Council Writer’s residency at the University of Windsor.
Her book, Sooner, is the music of a keenly tuned mind listening to all of its
stations at once, a poetry of menace and possibility, clear sight and ambiguity,
love and darkness, jealousy and light. If to know is to feel precisely, as
another poet once suggested, Christakos makes it clear the opposite may be
just as true, and that the devil is still in the details: You don’t know what
you think or feel. You only think and feel you know, and wave from the window...
Darren Wershler-Henry is a writer, critic, and former editor at Coach House
Books. He teaches Communication Studies at WLU. His two books of poetry are
Nicholodeon: a book of lowerglyphs, and the tapeworm foundry, which was shortlisted
for the Trillium Prize. He has just published a history of typewriting, Iron
Whom (M&S).
His newest book called Apostrophe will be released the day of our event.
Emily Pohl-Weary has been called "the new, sleazy, Judy Blume" (Winnipeg
Uniter), "an unconventional and modern-day hero to many young female writers"
(Young People's Press) and the "mistress of the empty girls" (Broken Pencil).
Her book, Iron-on Constellations, sifts through the surface dirt, grime and
debris of the city to reveal the isolation, illness, love and sexuality lurking
beneath. Through short, confident bursts that act like graffiti on an alley
wall, her subversive poems reveal hidden layers of emotion and the beauty of
the everyday.
Karen Solie was born in Moose Jaw and raised in southwest Saskatchewan.
Her first collection of poems, Short Haul Engine, won the BC Book Prize Dorothy
Livesay Award and was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Gerald
Lampert Award, and the ReLit Award.
Her book, Modern and Normal, finds a middle ground between the discourses of
the hard sciences and the intuitive, a realm of weird overlap wherein lie questions
of probability, fate, determinism, chance, luck, and faith. She writes about
fractals and physics, but also about bar bands, broken hearts, and the trappings
of desire.
Tuesday
Apr 11
Conrad Grebel College chapel 7:30pm free
co-sponsored by Conrad Grebel College
Rudy Wiebe is one of the Grand Old Men of Canadian literature, with over twenty
books to his credit. Of This Earth (Knopf Canada $32.95) is a beautiful,
moving memoir of a boy’s coming of age, infused with a deep love of the land.
In Of This Earth, Rudy Wiebe gives vivid life again to the vanished world of
Speedwell, Saskatchewan, an isolated, poplar-forested, mostly Mennonite community
– and Rudy’s first home. Too young to do heavy work, Rudy witnessed a way of
life that was soon to disappear. And we experience with him the hard labour
of clearing the stony, silty bushland; the digging out of precious wells one
bucket of dirt at a time; sorrow at the death of a beloved sister; the disorienting
searches for grazing cattle in the vast wilderness sloughs and the sweet discovery
of the power of reading.
Rare personal photographs (reproduced throughout the book) and the fragile
memories of those who are left give shape to the story of Mennonite immigrants
building a life in Canada, the growth and decline of the small Speedwell community,
the sway of religion, and a young boy’s growing love of the extreme beauty
of the aspen forests – as well as how all these elements came to inform his
destiny as a writer.
A hymn to a lost place and a distant time, Of This Earth follows the best of
memoirs in the tradition of Sharon Butala’s The Perfection of the Morning
and W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz. It is an evocation of the Canadian west
that only a writer of Rudy Wiebe’s powers could summon.
Rudy last read for Words Worth in 2001.
A one hour documentary on Rudy Wiebe will be shown on BRAVO! April 6th, 2006
at 8:30 pm (EST). We will have a few copies of the DVD of this bio for sale
at the reading.
Tuesday
Apr
18
The Record’s Canada Room $8
730 pm
co-sponsored by The Record - a portion of ticket proceeds go to The Record's
Literacy Fund
With violence,
anti-social behaviour, bullying, and aggression among young children escalating
at a frightening rate, it is clear that we need to develop a new understanding
of childhood.
Mary Gordon, an educator who has worked for more than two decades with children
from all kinds of backgrounds, has discovered that the solution to bullying
and other anti-social behaviour lies within each child's innate sense of caring
and compassion. She believes that infusing children with empathy constitutes
nothing less than a new paradigm in our approach to child-raising.
Through Roots of Empathy, her highly successful organization, Mary Gordon creates
a rich, rewarding classroom experience that fosters empathy within children.
The program brings babies and students together in a symbiotic loving environment
that has been proven to reduce aggression and increase tolerance and emotional
understanding in children. Currently, in the 2004–2005 school year, the Roots
of Empathy has more than 1,100 programs in English and French in Canada, is
reaching more than 28,000 students in eight Canadian provinces, and is piloted
for programs in Japan and Australia.
In Roots of Empathy, (Thomas Allen $29.95) the innovative and inspired
book based on her groundbreaking research and successful classroom program,
Mary Gordon shares her vision of a nation of compassionate and caring children
who will pass on their legacy of empathy to their own children.
In 1981, Mary Gordon, educator, international
speaker, and award-winning social entrepreneur, founded Canada's first and
largest network of Parenting and Family Literacy Centres. She founded the Roots
of Empathy, a charitable not-for-profit organization, in 1996. Gordon is a
recipient of an Ashoka Fellowship, the Fraser Mustard Award, and a Distinguished
Canadian Educator Award. In 2006 she was inducted as a member of the Order
of Canada. Born and raised in Newfoundland, Gordon now lives in Toronto. All
of the royalties from her book go back into the Roots of Empathy program.
John Bemrose & Madeleine Thien
Tuesday May 2 Waterloo Public Library, Albert St & Dupont, 7:30pm $10. (wine and cheese) A celebration of McClelland& Stewart's 100th Anniversary - proceeds to WPL's Family Literacy programs
John Bemrose’s highly acclaimed Island Walkers (M&S $22) tells the story of a family who slips from fortune’s favour in a southwestern Ontario mill town during the mid-1960s. Like his father before him, Alf Walker is a fixer in the local textile mill. When a labour dispute forces him to choose between loyalty to his friends and his own advancement, Alf’s actions inadvertently set in motion a series of events that will reverberate far into the future. Meanwhile, Alf’s wife, Margaret, must reconcile her middle-class upbringing with her blue-collar reality, as her marriage is undermined by forces she cannot name. And after their eldest son, Joe, falls headlong for a girl he first glimpses on a bridge, the boy finds his world overturned by the passion and uncertainty of young love. At once intimate and epic in scope, The Island Walkers follows the Walker family to the very bottom of their night, only to confirm, in the end, life’s regenerative power.
John Bemrose’s first novel was a national bestseller and a finalist for The Giller Prize. Bemrose is also well known as an arts journalist whose articles and profiles have appeared regularly in Maclean’s, where he is a contributing editor. In the past, he has written for CBC Radio’s Ideas, for the National Film Board, for the Globe and Mail, and for numerous other publications. He has also written a play, Mother Moon, produced by the National Arts Centre, and has published two poetry collections. Bemrose grew up in Paris, Ontario, the place that inspired the setting for The Island Walkers.
Bemrose has lived in Toronto since 1970. He is at work on his second novel.
Madeleine Thien’s stunning debut novel, Certainty (M&S $32.99 April),
fulfills all her early promise and introduces a young novelist of vision, maturity,
and style.Gail Lim, a producer of radio documentaries in present-day Vancouver, finds herself haunted by events in her parents’ past in wartorn Asia, a past which remains a mystery that fiercely grips her imagination. As a child, Gail’s father, Matthew Lim, wandered the Leila Road and the jungle fringe with his lovely Ani, a girl whose early bond with Matthew will affect his life always. As children, they found themselves together under the terrifying shadow of war in Japanese-occupied Sandakan, Malaysia. The war shatters their families and splits the two apart until years later, when they remeet only to be separated again. The legacy of their connection is later inherited by Matthew’s wife, Clara, in unexpected ways.
Gail’s journey to unravel the mystery of her parents’ lives takes her to Amsterdam, where she meets the war photographer Sipke, who tells his story of Ani and their relationship, which began in Jakarta, a story that will bring Gail face to face with the complications in her own life and lead her closer to the truth. Vivid, poignant, wise, at once sweeping and intimate, Certainty is a novel about the legacies of loss, about the dislocations of war and the redemptive qualities of love. Thien reveals herself as a novelist of rare and potent talent.
Madeleine Thien’s first book of fiction, Simple Recipes, won four awards in Canada, was a finalist for a regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book, and was named a notable book by the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. Originally from Vancouver, Thien recently moved to Quebec City.
Monday May 8 May is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and the KW Sexual Assault Support Centre is hosting an event at the Walper Terrace Hotel with Judy Rebick (free with donation). 730pm
Judy, former president of the
National Action Committee on the Status of Women, is the Chair of Social Justice
and Democracy at Ryerson University, and publisher of the online progressive
journal, Rabble.ca. She is the author of three books, the most recent is
Ten Thousand Roses, the Making of a Feminist Revolution (Penguin
$24.) Her talk will be on the past and future of Canadian feminism. She
is also a contributor to Dropped Threads 3.
Also
on display at this event will be the original artwork from an unusual book,
Dragonslippers by Rosalind Penfold. In graphic novel format, the author
illustrates how a middle-class woman becomes caught in the spiral of verbal
and physical violence and denial, a pattern it takes her years to recognize
and finally leave behind.
Judy Rebick calls the book “A mesmerizing tale of how an independent, intelligent woman can get trapped in a relationship with an abusive male. Told through the format of a graphic novel, Dragonslippers pulled me into the vortex of Rosalind Penfold's experience and didn't let go.”
We live in a
culture of choice. But, in an age of corporate dominance, our freedom to
choose has taken on new meaning. Upset with your local big box store?
Obje
ct to unfair hiring practices at your neighbourhood fast food
restaurant? Want to protest the opening of that new multinational coffeeshop? Vote with your feet! What if it’s not that simple?
In No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart (Between the Lines, $24.95) Tom
Slee unpacks the implications of our fervent belief in the power of choice.
Pointing out that individual choice has become the lynchpin of a
neoconservative corporate ideology he calls MarketThink, he urges us to
re-examine our assumptions. Slee makes use of game theory to argue that
individual choice is not inherently bad. Nor is it the societal fix-all
that our corporations and governments claim it is. A spirited treatise,
this book will make you think about choice in a whole new way.
Tom Slee is a writer, researcher, activist, and software professional. He
lives in Waterloo, Ontario.
Tuesday
May
30 in store,
7:30pm, free
Words Worth presents two travel writers. Both live or have lived in Guelph, both have crossed North America, one via car in in the 1998, one via horseback in 1949.
Kiss
the Sunset Pig (Penguin, May $22) is a lyrical, poetic, and
charmingly funny book, in which Laurie Gough drives from Ontario to California
reflecting on a life spent travelling in search of new experiences and familiar
sensations.
In a beater car named Marcia, Gough reflects as
she heads west towards her dreamland of California. Back in
her early twenties, she lived in a cave on a beach in California and found
purpose in life, listening to the waves in the moonlight. The trouble is, now
she has lost that enthusiasm. As Gough makes her way across the country meeting
a colorful variety of characters and heading towards that half-remembered cave,
she recalls past adventures around the world—coming face to face with a ghostly
crone on a Greek island; braving the jungles of Sumatra; paddling down the
Yukon River; teaching native kids in Canada’s sub-arctic; getting lost in Seoul,
found in Thailand, and out of her head in Jamaica. As Gough closes in on the
place of her dreams, she peels back the layers of cynicism that life builds
around us, and finds that our old selves may still be inside us if only we
bother to look.
All journeys should be voyages of the soul. We face our selves, our fears and
desires when we are challenged by strange environments. Gough meets these challenges
with aplomb and honesty, recording for her readers both the delights of discovery
and the meaning of 'the art of detouring'.
Laurie is the author of Kite Strings of the Southern Cross,
shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award,
and silver medal winner of ForeWord Magazine's Travel Book of the Year in the
US. Sixteen of her stories have been anthologized in various literary travel
books, including Salon.Com's Wanderlust: Real-Life Tales of Adventure.
www.lauriegough.com
Ri
de
the Rising Wind One Woman's Journey Across Canada
(Newest Press $24.95)
In May 1949, at the age of twenty,
Barbara Kingscote
left her farm in Mascouche, Quebec, and set out for the Pacific Ocean on horseback.
Barbara and her equine companion Zazy reached the West Coast just over a year
later, after travelling 4,000 miles and discovering the heart of this great
country.
With only $100, a map , and a handful of supplies, Barbara and Zazy made through
northern Ontario across the plains and the Rockies, with
luck, determination and the generosity of strangers to see them through.
Barbara Kingscote currently
lives just outside of Red Deer, Alberta. Having earned her MA and PhD in Veterinary
Science from the University of Guelph (where she met this bookseller, Chuck Erion), Kingscote
has spent a lifetime working with animals. From researching zoonosis (diseases
that can be passed from animals to humans), to studying reindeer in Canada’s
far north, Kingscote has many more incredible true stories to tell.
Tuesday June 6 730pm Knox Church (Erb St. at Caroline, Waterloo) $8
John Lorinc is a Toronto freelance writer (Globe and Mail, Toronto Life) and author of The New City - how the crisis of Canada's cities is reshaping our nation ($26.)
Shaped by immigration, globalization, and demographics, our hub cities demonstrate what's best about Canada: our commitment to education, tolerance, culture, and innovation. Since the early 1990s, however, troubling trends have threatened to undermine our much-envied quality of life.
Large urban centres are experiencing a widening gap between rich and poor, mounting levels of violence, and sprawl-induced health and environmental damage. Well-trained immigrants struggle to find suitable jobs and decent housing, while big-city schools suffer from underfunding. Local governments lack the resources and political clout to act decisively.
In The New City, award-winning urban affairs writer John Lorinc offers a compelling vision of how to make Canada's metropolitan centres sustainable, livable, and competitive in a world dominated by powerful mega-cities. Incisive and broad-ranging, this is a timely reminder that all Canadians must confront urban issues if the country is to succeed in the tumultuous economy of the 21st century.
"John Lorinc has
penned an inspired account of the rise of Canada's cities on the global
stage along with a cogent diagnosis of the quiet crisis that currently
threatens that very success. His vision for building safer, cleaner, more
creative, more efficient, and more democratic cities puts the urban centre
at the heart of the debate over our global future—where it rightly
belongs.”
—Richard Florida, Hirst Professor of Public Policy, George Mason
University, author of The Rise of the Creative Class
autographed books available
Collecting First Editions
A signed first edition from our author
events can be a valuable investment. The attention heaped on Joseph
Boyden’s novel, Three Day Road, may point
to its future value.
Signed copies of titles in the first edition from
past authors who have appeared at Words Worth, such as
Yann Martel, Andrew Pyper and Miriam
Toews, now routinely trade at many times more than
their initial cover price.
What is
a first edition?
A first edition is the first printing of a book. First editions differ
from subsequent printings as they are by definition the closest edition to
the author's original work. Publishers vary in the ways they identify their
first editions. A signed first edition can become a special and valuable book
for the owner.
Readers sometimes become interested in collecting when books become important
objects that they wish to own, admire and preserve. These bibliophiles develop
a passion for an author's work or subject area, wishing to create a fine and
complete collection of work. To collectors, the first edition is the most desirable
and valuable edition. Regular patronage of our spring and fall reading
series (and of course regular visits for signed editions!) is an excellent
way to build and maintain a library of both enduring quality and value.
TWENTY-TWOYEARS OF AUTHOR EVENTS
It was November of 1984 when the late WO Mitchell read for us at Waterloo Library. We had dinner with him before the reading at the restaurant at what was then The Seagram Museum. He was impressed with the large hall there and suggested we use it for future readings. We took his suggestion and held many events there, even some with a breakfast time slot. Over the years, we've used The Canadian Clay and Glass Museum, Waterloo Stage Theatre, and uptown churches: Emmanuel, First United and more recently, Knox Presbyterian. On many occasions we linked a new author (e.g. Jane Urquhart in 1986) with someone more established (Timothy Findley). Almost 200 authors (not counting kids' authors) have been hosted by Words Worth Books.
Fall 2005 was
our twenty-first season. We hosted Jane
Urquhart, Lisa Moore, Michael Crummey, Alison Pick and Thomas King. Jane,
Alison, Thomas as well as John Brady and Anne Fleming, all made
return trips to our podium.
Here's a chronological list of most of the authors of adult books. Many of these names are
displayed as a border around the ceiling of the bookstore.
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1984,1990 W.O.Mitchell ALSO Tony Aspler, Alan Daniels, Sandra Gwyn, Dennis Lee, Jim Bedard, Jean Little, Nancy-Lou Patterson
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