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Paper chase: Andrew Davidson plans to get serious
Winnipeg novelist Andrew Davidson plans to get down to serious work in January on the followup to his celebrated debut, The Gargoyle.
Davidson is still touring to support his bestseller, which was released in the summer of 2008.
This month he has been in Serbia, is now in Bulgaria.and will end November in Romania.
Meanwhile, he is one of 156 English-language writers (including his fellow Winnipegger Joan Thomas) in the running for the $157,000 IMPAC Dublin Award.
"Being on the super-long-list is already far more than I could have imagined, really," he said in an email.
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University of Manitoba Victorian literature expert Robert O'Kell is giving a lecture next week to mark the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
O'Kell's talk, titled Apes and Angels: Evolution in the 19th Century, is slated for 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in Rm. 409 of the Tier Building at the U of M. Admission is free.
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Gen. Rick Hillier will be signing copies of his memoir, A Soldier First, at McNally Robinson Booksellers.
He will be at the Polo Park location from 1 to 3 p.m. and at the Grant Park location from 4:30-6:30 p.m. on Dec. 2.
The outspoken Hillier is the recently retired Chief of the Defence staff of the Canadian Forces.
He is currently chancellor of Newfoundland's Memorial University.
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Former Winnipegger Ron Charach will be in town next week to read from his non-fiction collection Cowboys and Bleeding Hearts.
Charach will be reading, along with Winnipegger John Weir, on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson Polo Park.
Charach is a psychiatrist and poet in Toronto.
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The annual Winnipeg Jewish Book Fair will take place Dec. 6-13 at the Rady Jewish Community Centre.
This year featured authors include Winnipeggers Allan Levine, Justin Jaron Lewis, Carol Rose, Myroslav Shkandrij and Eva Wiseman.
For more information, see the website at http://www.radyjcc.com/.
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Two library workers in Lexington, Ky., were fired after they kept a graphic novel out of circulation for an entire year.
Sharon Cook and Barbara Boisvert were offended by the material in U.K. author Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier.
Both women claim the book should not be read by children and should never have been included in the library collection.
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