Nino Ricci

Award-winning Author

Extraordinary Canadians TV

PMA Productions presents Extraordinary Canadians, an innovative series of portraits pairing Canada’s most distinguished writers with great Canadians who have shaped our thinking. Based upon Penguin Canada’s Extraordinary Canadians collection of books edited by John Ralston Saul, the series gives personal takes on the lives of eminent Canadians, capturing the relationship between writer and subject that lies at the heart of the biography process.

Airing on City TV, Biography, and Omni starting October 2011. For more information, visit Extraordinary Canadians.

 

 

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.

SLEEP on Scribes & Songsters

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In The Blogosphere

☛Sleep makes the Toronto Star's Top 5 for 2015
☛Van Winkle's sleep site on Sleep
☛CBC Manitoba describes Sleep as a "dark but gripping read"
☛London Free Press calls Sleep "a page-turner bound to please"
☛Sleep ends first week at No. 6 on Hardcover Bestseller List and No. 2 on Canadian Bestseller List
☛Sleep heads Chatelaine's "Buzzy Fall Books"
☛Nino talks about Sleep on Canada AM
☛5 Good Reads from Word on the Street
☛How 5 writers survive the festival season
☛Nino Ricci on the origins of Sleep
☛Emily Donaldson reviews Sleep in the Globe
☛Domenico Capilongo talks to Nino on Italocanadese.com
☛The Globe & Mail's Mark Medley on Nino's new thriller novel
☛- Nino Ricci on Kafka and Sleep in the National Post
☛Quill & Quire gives Sleep a gold star
☛Phil Marchand gives Sleep a rare rave
☛A sneak preview of Sleep in the Globe
☛Quill & Quire on "Nino Ricci and The Power of Sleep"
☛Nino on sleep and the coming apocalypse
☛The Globe and Mail picks Sleep for Top 20

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