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A monthly series produced and curated by Toronto Public Library (TPL), celebrating the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA). Episodes feature recorded on-stage interviews, readings or panel discussions with some of the 20th century's best-known writers and thinkers. Hosted by novelist, Randy Boyagoda.
Toronto Public Library hosts Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives, a arts show with 34 episodes published.
In this electrifying episode of Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives , travel back to October 1992 to hear Martha Gellhorn — novelist, journalist, and witness to nearly every major conflict of the twentieth centu
Content Warning : This episode contains references to suicide. Listener discretion is advised. Please take care of yourself and seek support if needed. In this moving episode of Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archiv
In this captivating episode of Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives, step back in time to 1990 Toronto and immerse yourself in the lyrical world of Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney. The recording captures H
This conversation between Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes and Bob Rae, recorded in 2000, offers a time capsule of North American relations at a pivotal moment. The interview captures Fuentes just after Mexico's historic el
In October of 2000, Ursula K. Le Guin sat down with CBC's Marilyn Powell to discuss her novel, The Telling . Listening to their conversation now feels like opening a time capsule – one that paradoxically contains prescie
EPISODE SUMMARY Listening to this 1988 conversation between Nobel-prize winning American writer, Saul Bellow, and former Canadian Governor General, Adrienne Clarkson, we possess the advantage of hindsight. In the midst o
The best kinds of conversations should meander and detour, trip over delicate areas, double down when a point must be emphatically asserted. After all, the ostensible subject of this 1997 on-stage chat between Dionne Bra
In 1988, when Mario Vargas Llosa sat down on a Toronto stage with Adrienne Clarkson, he hadn't yet won his Nobel Prize for Literature (that came in 2010) so he wasn't yet a "central" figure in the world of writing. In th
This audio recording of Hilary Mantel in conversation with Rosemary Sullivan was recorded on stage at Harbourfront Reading Series in 1997. It is used with the kind permission of the Toronto International Festival of Auth
Works by Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose Foucault’s Pendulum The Prague Cemetery On the Shoulders of Giants Other Related Books or Materials Signs and Secrets: the Worlds of Umberto Eco (2013 documentary) Always Narrati
Works by Austin Clarke In This City They Never Told Me and Other Stories The Polished Hoe Other Related Books or Materials Odetta’s 1960 recording of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” (link opens a Youtube video
Works by Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook Stories by Doris Lessing The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels The Grass is Singing (ebook) Other Related Books or Materials Doris Lessing: A Biography by Carole Klein Doris Lessi
Works by Eduardo Galeano Memory of Fire Volume One: Genesis Memory of Fire Volume Two: Faces and Masks Memory of Fire Volume Three: Century of the Wind Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History Soccer in Sun and
Works by Angela Carter Nights at the Circus The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks Writers Talk: Angela Carter with Lisa Appignanesi (evideo) The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (ebook) Other Related Boo
Works by Luisa Valenzuela The Lizard’s Tail (print book) The Wanderer by Luisa Valenzuela, translated by Marguerite Feitlowitz (link opens a short story from The Brooklyn Rail's InTranslation) He Who Searches Latin Ameri
Works by Richard Wagamese A Quality of Light (ebook) One Drum: Stories and Ceremonies for a Planet (all formats) One Drum: Stories and Ceremonies for a Planet (audiobook) Starlight (ebook) Indian Horse Other Related Book
Works by John Irving A Prayer for Owen Meany The World According to Garp (book in various formats) The World According to Gary (1982 film starring Robin Williams, Glenn Close and John Lithgow) Avenue of Mysteries The Cid
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Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives is hosted by Toronto Public Library. The show is categorised under arts (books) and has published 34 episodes.
Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives has published 34 episodes.
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