Bertrand D. Mann

Well, yet another edition of the International Festival of Authors has come to pass. This year’s edition, the 32nd, was undoubtedly much like the 31 others that preceded it: authors came to read their words, usually with a copy of their most recent work in tow, schlepping themselves shamelessly in the hopes of garnering...
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In the interest of all things literary, TheSceneinTO has decided to begin profiling used bookstores across our fine city. In this ongoing series, we will focus on various establishments, reveal some of their quirks, and examine the general state of the used book trade around town. Our first in stop is Doug Miller Books,...
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Amongst Shakespearians, The Winter’s Tale is generally agreed to be a waste of time. It’s one of the bastards locked in the attic and usually kept out of view, along with other dramatically challenged cousins like The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Pericles, or The Two Noble Kinsmen. The Winter’s Tale might best be described...
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Here’s one final reminder to all literary types about the final reading event at Harbourfront this month. Closing out the season next week will be Descant magazine’s landmark celebrations, Descanting for Forty Years, on June 29. If you can’t attend the event (or don’t want to), don’t pout. The Authors at Harbourfront Centre have...
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Remember the 1980s? Remember big hair, acid-wash jeans, and the greed-is-good generation? Some have chosen to forget, while others were but little bitty toddlers when the likes of Ronald Reagan and Brian Mulroney ruled the North American landscape. Whether you do remember the eighties or not, here’s your chance to experience Queen West’s punk...
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Are you still in the mood for a story? If your appetite for being read to isn’t yet sated, we thought we’d pass along some more info on upcoming June events where writers will be reading their good words. The “Authors at Harbourfront Centre” series closes its 37th season will a gaggle of impressive...
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Writers write. That’s what they do. And if said writers are any good, they come to develop what are called readers. There is the simple divide: writers and readers. Yet despite what seems like a clear distinction, there is a compulsive need in readers to turn writers into what they are inherently not. Thus,...
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Actor W.C. Fields famously warned that you should never work with animals or children. The Pleiades Theatre seems to have taken his advice for their latest production, Rabindranath Tagore’s The Post Office. They have cast Mina James, a woman, in the lead role of Amal, a sickly young boy. The adoptive son of Madhab...
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