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Exhibits THINGS TO DO 

Weekdays: CanLit exhibit at rare book library

March 18, 2020February 25, 2020 Streeter staff books, CanLit, Fisher Library, literature, St. George Street

Exhibit at the Fisher Library explores how CanLit has been shaped by an entire community of writers, editors, illustrators, agents and booksellers.

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Exhibits THINGS TO DO 

Weekdays: CanLit exhibit at rare book library

February 18, 2020February 25, 2020 Streeter staff books, CanLit, Fisher Library, literature, St. George Street

Exhibit at the Fisher Library explores how CanLit has been shaped by an entire community of writers, editors, illustrators, agents and booksellers.

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Difficult People portion of cover
Column VIEWS 

Stories of Difficult People easy to enjoy

October 15, 2018October 16, 2019 Eric McMillan Catriona Wright, literature, short stories

With their offbeat personalities, horrid situations and entertaining writing, Difficult People contains some of the most engaging new stories.

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Column VIEWS 

A certain type of reader

December 5, 2013October 16, 2019 Brian Baker Fiction, Genre, literature, The Blast Radius

Though English class was one of my strongest subjects in high school, I always loathed being forced to read dry, uncreative prose.

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NEWS 

Order of Ontario for illustrator

February 22, 2012 Town Crier staff Barbara Reid, books, childrens books, Illustration, literature, Order Of Ontario

Young-at-heart Barbara Reid lauded by province

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NEWS 

Novel probes story of home children

December 30, 2011 Town Crier staff books, Home Children, literature, Riverdale Historical Society, Sandra Joyce, The Street Arab

Book inspired by Beach author’s own father’s life

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NEWS 

Memoir tells Holocaust survivor's tale

November 25, 2011 Town Crier staff Bayview Country Club, Betty Rich, books, history, Holocaust, Holocaust Education Week, literature, Little Girl Lost

Don Mills resident chronicles her early life in Little Girl Lost

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NEWS 

Comics above the Law

November 23, 2011 Town Crier staff Comics, graphic novel, literature, Marvin Law, Slam The Webcomic, Webcomics, Wrestling

Illustrator tries wrestling with new webcomic

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NEWS 

Ondaatje changes pace for his latest novel

November 23, 2011 Town Crier staff books, Coming Through Slaughter, In the Skin of a Lion, literature, McClelland & Stewart, Michael Ondaatje, Reviews, The Cat's Table, The English Patient

The Cat’s Table is accessible, but is also at a high artistic level

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NEWS 

Death to the bard

October 20, 2011 Town Crier staff Conor McCreery, graphic novel, Kill Shakespeare, literature, William Shakespeare

Graphic novel reimagines Shakespeare’s characters

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That was then.

Empringham Hotel 1903
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

From stately hotel to strip club—the Empringham story

November 19, 2020February 6, 2023 Eric McMillan

The Empringham, Danforth or Play Pen — they’re all the same hotel, standing at Danforth and Dawes from the late 1800s into the 1980s.

Queen and Waverley 1903
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

Can you believe this century home still stands at Queen and Waverley?

February 27, 2020March 4, 2020 Eric McMillan
Beltline bridge over Yonge Street ion 1915
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

When horses passed UNDER the Beltline bridge

December 1, 2019February 6, 2020 Eric McMillan
Yonge-Eglinton southeast
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

Now that the Yonge-Eglinton mess has been cleared up (almost)

October 24, 2019October 25, 2019 Eric McMillan

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