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Globe and Mail excerpts Sleep

Read an excerpt from Sleep in the Globe and Mail.


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The Globe and Mail
Aug 15 2015

It occurs to David that the loop he has imagined has really happened: somewhere ahead, a version of the horror he has averted is playing itself out. He will drive by and see his own child lying dead, his own double howling in bloodied agony Awash of…read more…

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Sleep makes top 20 for fall 2015

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Nino Ricci’s Sleep is one of 20 books named by the Globe and Mail as the “books you’ll be reading – and talking about – for the rest of the year.” Also on the list, Harper Lee’s much anticipated prequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman, and Dr. Seuss’s posthumous What Pet Should I Get?

 15 Irving   15 Harper Lee  Sleep   15 Seusss  15 Steinem

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A Short History of Sleep

Photo illustration Ming Wong/The Globe and Mail

 

Nino Ricci reviews RM Vaughan’s Bright Eyed, on why insomnia is the banner affliction of our time, and gives a short history of sleep.

The real threat to civilization as we know it, it turns out, isn’t melting ice caps or zombie pandemic but the disappearance of sleep. So argues writer and provocateur RM Vaughan in his extended essay Bright Eyed, making a compelling case for sleep as the inevitable casualty of our 24/7 culture and for insomnia as the banner affliction of our time, like neurasthenia for the late Victorians or leprosy for the early Christians. . . .

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16 Nov – Grimsby Author Series

Camilla Gibb and Nino Ricci
Monday, November 16 ~ 7:30 PM
Casablanca Winery Inn
4 Windward Drive, Grimsby, Ontario
Doors Open at 7 PM

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The renowned Grimsby Author Series presents award-winning author Camilla Gibb talking about her moving memoir This is Happy and Nino Ricci talking about his novel Sleep. At Grimsby’s beautiful Casablanca Winery Inn.

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13 Nov – TFTP Prince Edward County

~ From Massey Hall to Prince Edward County ~
Penguin Random House and Books & Company are proud to present a very special instalment of
 “Torn from the Pages: Nino Ricci“

Hosted by Dave Bidini

Friday, November 13, 2015 ~ 6:30 PM 

Books & Company  ~ 289 Main Street ~ Picton, Ontario

Featuring Nobu Adilman, Tony Dekker, Oh Susanna, Corin Raymond, Lucas Silveira and Michael Winter

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Born from the imagination of Rheostatic Dave Bidini, Torn from the Pages is “an evening where the worlds of books and music collide, a frisson of prose and melody” inspired by the work of a single artist. This fall’s chosen author is Nino Ricci.

Curated and hosted by DAVE BIDINI and featuring performances by NOBU ADILMAN, OH SUSSANA, LUCAS SILVEIRA, TONY DEKKER (Great Lake Swimmers), CORIN RAYMOND and MICHAEL WINTER, the evening will debut newly-commissioned songs, stories, poems and more inspired by Ricci’s novel Sleep.

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12 Nov – Torn from the Pages

Massey Hall Presents “Torn from the Pages: Nino Ricci”

Hosted by Dave Bidini

Thursday, November 12, 2015 ~ 8 PM 
Harbourfront Centre Theatre ~ 231 Queen’s Quay West, Toronto

Featuring Nobu Adilman, Tony Dekker, Oh Susanna, Corin Raymond, Lucas Silveira and Michael Winter

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6 Nov – Wild Writers Waterloo

Don Gillmor and Nino Ricci in Conversation

Friday, November 6, 2015 ~ 7:30 PM
CIGI Campus Auditorium ~ 67 Erb St. W, Waterloo

The 2015 Wild Writers Literary Festival presents Craig Norris in conversation with Don Gillmor and Nino Ricci, along with the winner of the 2015 Edna Staebler Award and of The New Quarterly’s fiction, non-fiction, and poetry contests.

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5 Nov – Read for the Cure Calgary

Thursday, November 5, 2015 ~ 6:30 PM
The Westin Hotel ~ 320 4 Ave SW, Calgary

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Join Camilla Gibb, Colleen Jones and Nino Ricci at Read for the Cure Calgary, in support of The Cancer Research Society, the Alberta Cancer Foundation and the B.C. Cancer Foundation.

6:30: Nibbles and cash bar
7:30: Introductory remarks
7:45: Author presentations
9:00: Q & A
9:15: Book signings

Your ticket includes books by all three authors and delicious finger food as well as the opportunity to hear the authors talk about their lives and work and to meet them afterwards when they will be available to sign their books. The Emcee for the evening will be Kris Demeanor, Calgary’s first Poet Laureate. 

Buy your tickets online at Ticketweb or call them at 1-888-222-6608.

 

 

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4 Nov – Winnipeg

~ An Evening with Nino Ricci ~

Wednesday, November 4, 2015 ~ 7 PM
Grant Park in the Atrium
Grant Park Shopping Centre ~ 1120 Grant Avenue, Winnipeg

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Nino reads from Sleep before joining host Neil Besner in conversation. A book signing will follow. Co-presented by McNally Robinson and the Winnipeg International Writers Festival as part of their collaborative Fall Literary Series.

Born in Montreal, Neil Besner grew up in Brazil and was educated in Brazil, the U.S., and Canada. He has taught Canadian literature at the University of Winnipeg since 1987, and is currently Provost and Vice-President. He writes mainly on Canadian literature, with books on Mavis Gallant and Alice Munro; among other books are several edited and co-edited collections and an award-winning translation from Portuguese into English of the Brazilian biography of Elizabeth Bishop.

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30 Oct – IFOA Markham

Friday, October 30, 2015 ~ 6:30 PM
Markham Village Public Library
6031 York Regional Rd 7 ~ Markham, Ontario
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Join Giles Blunt, Nino Ricci and Owen Sheers at the Markham Village Public Library on Friday, October 30 at 6:30pm for a wine and international cuisine reception followed by readings of their latest works.

For tickets, please order online.

In partnership with Markham Arts Council and Markham Public Library

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Giles Blunt

Giles Blunt grew up in North Bay. He spent 20 years in New York City as a writer and a scriptwriter for such shows as Law and Order and Night Heatbefore making his home in Toronto. He is the author of the six novels in the bestselling Cardinal crime series, which he is currently adapting as a television series for CTV. He is a two-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel and a recipient of the British Crime Writers’ Macallan Silver Dagger. Blunt presents The Hesitation Cut, a psychological suspense novel about jealousy and obsession.

Owen Sheers

Owen Sheers

Owen Sheers is a poet, author and playwright. His first novel, Resistance, was translated into 10 languages and adapted into a film. The Dust Diaries, his Zimbabwean non-fiction narrative, won the Welsh Book of the Year Award. He is also the recipient of the Somerset Maugham Award and the Hay Festival Medal for Poetry. He has been a New York Public Library Cullman Fellow and is currently Professor in Creativity at Swansea University. He presents his second novel, I Saw a Man, an utterly stunning novel of love, loss, the insidious nature of secrets and the transformative power of words.

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29 Oct – IFOA Parry Sound

Thursday, October 29, 2015 ~ 7:30 PM
Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts
2 Bay Street, Parry Sound

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Join authors Marina Endicott, Anne Enright, Nino Ricci and Deanna Young at The Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts on October 29 at 7:30pm for a reading of their latest works, part of the 2015 International Festival of Authors.

For tickets and more information, please visit the The Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts or call the centre at 705-746-4466 or 1-877-746-4466.

In partnership with Parry Sound Books.

Parry Sound Books

 

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Marina Endicott

Marina Endicott is the author of Good to a Fault, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book (Canada/Caribbean) and was a finalist for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize. She also received recognition forThe Little Shadows, which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, andOpen Arms, which was shortlisted for the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Endicott has been an actor, director, playwright and editor, and currently teaches at the University of Edmonton. She presents Close to Hugh, an exuberant and poignant novel about how two generations navigate rites of passage in a seemingly ordinary small town.

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Anne Enright

Anne Enright won the Man Booker Prize and the Irish Fiction Award for her novel The Gathering, which became a longtime national bestseller in Canada. She has published two books of stories, collected as Yesterday’s Weather, and the internationally acclaimed novel The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Enright presents her latest novel, The Green Road, a story of fracture and family, selfishness and compassion—a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we learn to fill them.

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Deanna Young

Deanna Young’s writing has appeared in journals across Canada and in 2013 she received the grand prize in the PRISM international Poetry Contest. She lives in Ottawa where she co-directs the Tree Reading Series. Young presents her third collection of poetry, House Dreams, which was a finalist for the 2015 Trillium Book Award for Poetry, the Ottawa Book Award and the Archibald Lampman Award. House Dreams is a haunting sample of the life we all live underground, and a view beneath the foundations of the various eras and places that make up one woman’s life story.

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27 Oct – Ottawa Writers’ Festival

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About Nino

Nino Ricci is the author of award-winning novel The Origin of Species and of the Lives of the Saints trilogy, adapted as a miniseries starring Sophia Loren. For more on Nino's life and work, including his acclaimed biography of Pierre Trudeau, contact Nino's parole officer. Or you can also poke around this nifty … Read more.

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Italian Week Ottawa

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Librissimi

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I Migliori Awards

Nino Ricci has been named one of the recipients of the Pirandello Lyceum's 2025 I Migliori Awards. This year marks the 40th anniversary of an award that Boston … [Read More...]

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