Toronto-based author Craig Davidson will read from his latest novel, , on Oct. 22 as part of 91ÑÇɫ’s Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series.
A for-credit course for students, Canadian Writers in Person is also a free-admission event series for members of the public. The series features notable authors who will present their work, answer questions and sign books. All readings take place at 7 p.m. on select Tuesday evenings in 206 Accolade West Building, Keele Campus.
The Saturday Night Ghost Club, a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, is a short, infectious and bittersweet coming-of-age story about a group of misfit kids who spend an unforgettable summer investigating local ghost stories and urban legends. This note-perfect novel poignantly examines the fragility of mind and body, the resilience of the human spirit and the haunting mutability of memory.
Born and raised in St. Catharines, Ont., Davidson has published five previous books: Rust and Bone, which was made into an Oscar-nominated feature film of the same name, The Fighter,ÌýSarah Court, Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated Cataract City and bestselling memoir Precious Cargo. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and his work has been published in the National Post, Esquire, GQ, The Walrus and the Washington Post, among other places. He lives in Toronto with his partner and their child.
Other presentations scheduled in this series are:
Nov. 5: Kagiso Lesego Molope, , Mawenzi House
Nov. 19: Téa Mutonji, , Arsenal Pulp Press
Dec. 3: Roo Borson, , Penguin Random House
2020
Jan. 14: Cherie Dimaline, , Dancing Cat Books
Jan. 28: Uzma Jalaluddin, , Penguin Random House
Feb. 11: Carrianne Leung, , HarperCollins
March 3: E. Martin Nolan, , Invisible Publishing
March 17: David Bezmozgis, , HarperCollins
Canadian Writers in Person is a course offered out of the Culture & Expression program in the Department of Humanities in 91ÑÇɫ’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. For more information on the series, visit , call 416-736-5158, or email Professor Gail Vanstone at gailv@yorku.ca or Professor Leslie Sanders at leslie@yorku.ca.