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.