Past Events - Part 11

Harvard Book Store

Harvard Book Store hosts Nino Ricci on the publication of the Other Press edition of The Origin of Species as part of its Spring Author Event Series. Come watch Nino hobnob with Harvard types and talk at excessive length about the Darwinian underpinnings of his novel. 7 PM on Monday, 10 May at Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge. Tel. 617.661.1424.

Extraordinary Canadians at the ROM

John Ralston Saul hosts Andrew Cohen, Douglas Coupland, Nino Ricci and Jane Urquhart in conversation about Canadian identity, political intrigue, unintentional suicide, and whether the medium truly is the message, as Penguin Canada launches another season in its Extraordinary Canadians series. Wednesday, April 28 at 7 PM at the Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto. Level 1B, Signy and Cléophée Eaton Theatre. Tel. 416-586-5797.

Frye Festival @ Moncton, New Brunswick

Nino returns to Moncton’s annual Frye Festival for several days of fun and hot colloquy in Canada’s most bilingual city.

Thursday, 22 April at 8:00 PM – Soirée Frye
Christian Bök
Gracia Couturier
Christiane Duchesne
Nino Ricci
Musical Guests: Julie Doiron and Guillaume Arsenault
Followed by a community reception to meet the authors.
~Capitol Theatre~

Friday, 23 April at 12:00 noon
Roundtable: Writing Lives and Afterlives
Daniel Poliquin
Nino Ricci
Noah Richler
Maryse Rouy
~Moncton City Hall~

Friday, 23 April at 8:00 PM
An Evening of Canadian Lit with Annabel Lyon,
Linden MacIntyre and Nino Ricci
Host: Noah Richler
~Jeanne-de-Valois, Université de Moncton~

Nino Ricci launches U.S. edition of The Origin of Species in New York

McNally Jackson Books of New York (52 Prince St., between Lafayette & Mulberry; tel. 212.274.1160) hosts the launch of the Other Press edition of The Origin of Species. 7 PM on Wednesday, April 14th, 2010. There will be a reading from the novel, hopefully mercifully brief.

Get more information from McNally Jackson or check out the listing in Time Out.

Boston Athenaeum

Nino Ricci speaks about his novel The Origin of Species at the storied Boston Athenaeum, 10 1/2 Beacon St., Boston, from 12 to 1 PM.

Founded in 1807 under the motto Literarum fructus dulces, sweet are the fruits of letters, the Boston Athenaeum is located in historic Beacon Hill just off the Boston Common. Nino Ricci’s lecture is open to the public.

Nino Ricci @ University of Massachusetts Boston

Nino Ricci talks about and reads from his award-winning novel The Origin of Species, recently released in the U.S. by Other Press. Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 9:30 AM in the Bookstore at the University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125. Tel: 617.287.5000. Sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts, University of Massachusetts Boston.

CITE Conference, Appleby College

Nino Ricci joins Lawrence Hill for Appleby College’s CITE Conference and helps launch the inCITE anthology of student writing. Saturday, April 10, 2010, at Appleby College, 540 Lakeshore Road West, Oakville, Ontario. Nino speaks at 12:30.

The Walrus Eats

Are you The Walrus? Find out at The Walrus Eats With Nino Ricci, a fundraiser at historic Campbell House in Toronto in support of The Walrus Foundation. 6 PM on Tuesday, April 6th in the ballroom at Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen Street West, Toronto. Tel: 416.597.0227. For tickets and information, contact The Walrus Foundation.

Amnesty International “Human Rights House” Open House

Join Nino Ricci for a talk on human rights and on his own work with Amnesty International and with the freedom-of-expression organization PEN Canada. Wednesday, March 24th, 2010, 5:30 – 7:30 PM, at Amnesty International’s Human Rights House, 1992 Yonge St., 3rd Floor, Toronto (2 blocks north of Davisville).