Name: Junction Reads In Person Launch at TYPE Books
Start: 2023-10-29T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2023-10-29T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Type Books

Junction Reads In Person Launch at TYPE Books

Junction Reads is an online reading series that offers one on one conversations and readings with authors of great prose.

Junction Reads

Join us for the launch of our in-person events, with Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, Paola Ferrant and BH Panhuyzen!

Type Books

Join us for our long-awaited return to in-person events!<a href="https://youtube.com/live/KxZHmHwgbsk" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">H﻿ere is the link to the LIvestream, if you cannot join us in person.</a><a href="https://kathrynkuitenbrouwer.com/books/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer</a>, <a href="http://www.paolaferrante.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Paola Ferrante </a>and <a href="https://brianpanhuyzen.com/about/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">BH Panhuyzen </a>bring their new books, their writerly wisdom and their pens to sign the books you buy! There will be readings, a Q and A, book signing, and a meet and mingle at the break.Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer&#x27;s latest novel, <a href="https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/wait-softly-brother" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">WAIT SOFTLY BROTHER,</a> is being met with great acclaim. It is long listed for the Scotia Bank Giller Prize and we cannot wait to see what&#x27;s next for this incredible book.From Wolsak and Wynn: From lost siblings to the horrors of war to tales of selkie wives, Wait Softly Brother is filled with questions about memory, reality and the truths hidden in family lore. After twenty years of looping frustrations Kathryn walks out of her marriage and washes up in her childhood home determined to write her way to a new life. There she is put to work by her aging parents sorting generations of memories and mementos as biblical rains fall steadily and the house is slowly cut off from the rest of the world. Lured away from the story she is determined to write – that of her stillborn brother, Wulf – by her mother’s gift of crumbling letters, Kathryn instead begins to piece together the strange tale of an earlier ancestor, Russell Boyt, who fought as a substitute soldier in the American Civil War. As the water rises, and more truths come to the surface, the two stories begin to mingle in unexpected and beautiful ways.Paola Ferrante&#x27;s genre bending collection of short stories, <a href="https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/paola-ferrante/her-body-among-animals-by-paola-ferrante/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">HER BODY AMONG ANIMALS </a>is already on my to-keep-forever bookshelf and I cannot wait to talk about it. Check out the incredible press coverage on the Book*hug Press website.From Book*hug Press: Magical yet human, haunted and haunting, these stories act as a surreal documentation of the mistakes in systems of the past that remain very much in the present. Ferrante investigates toxic masculinity and the devastation it enacts upon women and our planet, delving into the universal undercurrent of ecological anxiety in the face of such toxicity, and the personal experience of being a new mother concerned about the future her child will face. Through these confrontations of the complexity of living in a woman’s body, Her Body Among Animals moves us from hopelessness to a future of resilience and possibility.BH Panhuyzen&#x27;s fourth book, <a href="https://ecwpress.com/products/a-tidy-armageddon" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">A TIDY ARMAGEDDON,</a> from <a href="https://ecwpress.com/products/a-tidy-armageddon" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">ECW Press</a> has been described as Samuel Beckett meets Stephen King in an absurd and eerie coming-of-end tale and I am here for it! From ECW Press: A provocative eco-novel featuring an apocalypse like no other where Civilization has been dismantled by an unknown hand and reassembled into a vast maze of blocks, each comprised of a single item, packed Tetris-style and stacked nine storeys tall: watering cans, electrical transformers, fake Christmas trees, helicopters, plastic spoons, and everything else human culture has ever produced. The novel chronicles the journey of a diverse group of soldiers led by Elsie Sharpcot, a Cree sergeant and Afghanistan vet, who must reconcile a desperate hunt for her daughter with the responsibility to safeguard the recruits under her command.We are thrilled that <a href="https://typebooks.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">TYPE Books</a> in the Junction has agreed to host our events this season. They will have all books available to purchase (and more of course). Tickets are PWYC. Purchase here and show at the door, or purchase at the door. Suggested $5, but every extra $5 gets you an additional raffle ticket. You could win a fantastic book bundle, courtesy of the publishers. Proceeds to the authors. We are trying to stay in the FREE category on this website, so if all tickets have been sold, you can pay on the day or contact Alison to set up an eTransfer for you ticket/donation.We are looking for tech volunteers to help manage/invent our livestream. Please contact Alison and Cayley if you&#x27;d like to join the team!As a reading series that strives to be equitable, diverse and inclusive, we are happy to say that TYPE books is an accessible space. We will continue to monitor COVID numbers, but strongly encourage (and may mandate) mask wearing at our events. We will have N95s available at the door. We believe COVID poses a real and serious risk to longterm health, especially to health vulnerable people. If you feel unwell, please stay home and contact us for a full refund.

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