Miriam Toews

The purpose of Literary Women: The Long Beach Festival of Authors is to celebrate women authors, to encourage new writers and to expose the works of contemporary women authors to an audience of readers with a wide range of literary interests. Details to follow. For more information, please visit their website.

Featuring Lan Samantha Chang, Zoe Ferraris, Gillian Gill, Shilpi Somaya Gowda, Haley Tanner, Miriam Toews, and Isabel Wilkerson.

Location: Street: 300 E. Ocean Blvd. City: Long Beach, Province: California Postal Code: 90802 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Christian McPherson discusses The Cube People.; Miriam Toews discusses Irma Voth.

As anyone who has ever endured an open-mic set at a comedy club can tell you, it’s not easy to make people laugh. From setup to punchline, Peter Simpson turns to Christian McPerson and Miriam Toews to find out what it takes to get humour just right on the page. Miriam Toews, winner of the Governor General's Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, a National Magazine Award for Humour and finalist for the Giller Prize and the Stephan Leacock Medal for Humour and the author of A Complicated Kindness, The Flying Troutmans and Irma Voth, shares the stage with Ottawa writer Christian McPherson, whose first novel, The Cube People, is a hilarious and slightly surreal tale of discontented bureaucrats in the federal civil service in Ottawa. Peter Simpson, the Ottawa Citizen's arts editor at large and writer of the Citizen's Big Beat blog on the city's arts scene hosts the conversation on how to be funny and still be taken seriously. Tickets: $10 ($5 reduced). Free for members. (thebookpile)… (more)

Johanna Skibsrud discusses This Will be Difficult to Explain and Other Stories.; Helen Oyeyemi discusses The Icarus Girl.; Miriam Toews discusses Irma Voth.

Join us in welcoming three acclaimed authors whose work explores the tension, promise and difficulty inherent in interpersonal relationships. Even if Sartre was right when he announced that hell is other people, the opposite may prove to be just as true. With This Will Be Difficult to Explain and Other Stories , Giller Prize winner Johanna Skibsrud introduces us to an astonishing array of characters, showing us through their eyes what even they cannot see and uncorking minor epiphanies in the middle of the most unremarkable days. Helen Oyeyemi completed her first novel, The Icarus Girl , just before her 19th birthday. Her fourth novel, Mr. Fox , is magical, inventive and profound in its truths about how we learn to be with one another. Full of delicious period detail, this is a love story like no other. Miriam Toews’ new novel, Irma Voth , brings us back to the beloved voice of her Governor General’s Literary Award winning #1 bestseller A Complicated Kindness , and to a Mennonite community in the Mexican desert. The stifling, reclusive Mennonite life of nineteen-year-old Irma Voth—newly married and newly deserted—is irrevocably changed when a film crew moves in to make a movie about the community. Tickets: $15 ($10 reduced). Free for members. (thebookpile)… (more)

Miriam Toews discusses The Flying Troutmans.

WordFest Presents Miriam Toews
Wednesday, September 17
John Dutton Theatre,
Central Library
616 MacLeod Trail SE Calgary
7:30 pm
$8 in advance, $10 at the door
Tickets available through WordFest 403.294.7462 or Ticketmaster 403.777.0000 or in person at Pages Bookstore on Kensington

Miriam Toews’ new book, The Flying Troutmans is about a family on the verge of spinning off its axles and a road trip that just may keep them together. Her last novel, the bestselling A Complicated Kindness, won the 2004 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. She is also the recipient of the John Hirsch Award for her first novel, Summer of My Amazing Luck, and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award for her second novel, A Boy of Good Breeding, She also won the National Magazine Award Gold Medal for Humour, and has written for the CBC as well as various magazines and journals. (Cassondra)… (more)

Miriam Toews reads from A Complicated Kindness and The Flying Troutmans .

Join celebrated author Miriam Toews who will read from her Governor General's Literary Award-winning novel A Complicated Kindness (Knopf, 2004), and preview her upcoming novel, The Flying Troutmans (Knopf, October 2008). Part of UBC's Centenary Celebrations, this Friday night artsWednesday event is co-presented by the UBC Creative Writing Program and the Arnold and Nancy Cliff Writers in Residence Program. Friday, March 28 at 6pm; free, drop-ins welcome. UBC Robson Square (800 Robson St.). Info: 604.822.5812. (vegetrendian)… (more)