Upcoming TINARS

One Bloody Thing After Another
Joey Comeau, Ryan North, Tony Burgess
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - 7:30pm
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St. W.

What do you find scarier: the prospect of spending an afternoon catching up with your extended family or that giant pool of blood slowly spreading across the living room carpet? Isn’t it high time that a so-called horror novel addressed this subtle yet significant distinction?

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Therefore Choose
Keith Oakley, Maja Djikic
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - 7:30pm
Gladstone Hotel 2nd floor gallery, 1214 Queen St. W.

Can recent developments in the field of psychology enable us to improve our reading and writing skills?

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Ghosted
Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall
Monday, May 3, 2010 - 7:30pm
Tattoo Rock Parlour, 567 Queen St. W.

Is ghostwriting suicide notes really the best way to pay off your debt to a drug dealer? And can someone who’s barely winning the battle with his own demons really afford to take on those of complete strangers? Such questions haunt Mason, the protagonist of acclaimed author Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall’s highly anticipated novel, Ghosted (Random House).

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Remembrance Of Patients Past
Geoffrey Reaume, Ruth Ruth
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 7:30pm
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St. W.

To celebrate the re-issue of his groundbreaking study, Remembrance Of Patients Past (University of Toronto Press), scholar and activist Geoffrey Reaume will conduct a walking tour of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) grounds.

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The Darwin’s Bastards Cabaret
Zsuzsi Gartner
Monday, April 19, 2010 - 7:30pm
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St. W.

What do you get when you ask an all star lineup of Canadian writers who do not usually write speculative, fantasy, dystopian, or futuristic work for an unpublished short piece in this vein? A collection that concentrates as much on love as it does on science, without a single talking animal in the mix.

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The Authenticity Hoax: How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves
Andrew Potter, Nora Young
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 7:30pm
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St. W.

What is ‘the real thing’? Why does our culture spend so much time, money and energy pursuing such an elusive ideal? And does anyone really know what to do when they finally catch it?

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Secret Life Of Glenn Gould: A Genius In Love
Michael Clarkson
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - 7:30pm
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St. W.

Glenn Gould’s legacy has received a fair bit of attention recently but his love life remains cloaked in mystery. Biographers have shied away from the virtuoso’s many affairs of the heart, painting him instead as an asexual, lonely genius. How did Gould’s private passions inform his celebrated recordings?

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Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-In-Training
James Grainger, Tom Jokinen
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 7:30pm
Gladstone Hotel 2nd floor gallery, 1214 Queen St. W.

What sort of homework do they assign at funeral director school? And are you supposed to bring your favourite teacher a dead apple?

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The Feathertale Review Cabaret
Brett Popplewell
Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 7:30pm
Supermarket, 268 Augusta Avenue

Ever wonder who puts together one of Canada’s most popular literary humour magazines? Want to attend the taping of a fake podcast?

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