Tuesday, February 05, 2008

AWOT day

Mark your calendars:
Nathan Whitlock - A Week Of This: A Novel in Seven Days

To celebrate the release of his widely anticipated first novel, A Week Of This: A Novel in Seven Days (ECW Press), Quill & Quire review editor Nathan Whitlock will deliver a comic mock lecture titled "Seven Steps To A Seven Day Novel". Also, musician Alex Lukashevsky—whom Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene has called "one of the best songwriters Canada's ever been blessed with"—will perform songs inspired by Whitlock's tale about the lives of an extended family over seven increasingly desperate days. — A This Is Not A Reading Series event presented by Pages Books & Magazines, ECW Press and EYE WEEKLY.

Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St W, Toronto
Wed, Apr 16; 7:30pm (doors 7pm) free
The book, in case you're curious, has at long last been sent off to the printers, and should pop into view around the first week of April. For the moment, I'm feeling more relief than postpartum depression. More on that later.

1 comment:

Ognir Rrats said...

So, you mean you're not going to read? That seems retarded.

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