Award-winning Author
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?
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. . . .
Camilla Gibb and Nino Ricci
Monday, November 16 ~ 7:30 PM
Casablanca Winery Inn
4 Windward Drive, Grimsby, Ontario
Doors Open at 7 PM
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.
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
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.
Featuring Nobu Adilman, Tony Dekker, Oh Susanna, Corin Raymond, Lucas Silveira and Michael Winter
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.
