Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives

Works by Gwendolyn Brooks The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks Selected Poems Gwendolyn Brooks (Poetry Foundation article)   Other Related Books or Materials Gwendolyn Brooks Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks The Importance of Being Ordinary (New Republic article from July 2017) Jane Addams: Spirit in Action On Gwendolyn Brooks’ Birthday, a Statue of the Powerful Poet (Chic...

Works by Grace Paley The Collected Stories A Grace Paley Reader Just As I Thought Fidelity: Poems   Other Related Books or Materials The Art and Activism of Grace Paley (link opens a New Yorker article from 2017) Margalit Fox’s 2007 obituary of Grace Paley (link opens New York Times article) Grace Paley: the Art of Fiction (link opens a Paris Review interview from 1992)   About the Host Novelist R...

Works by Gwendolyn Brooks The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks Selected Poems A Street in Bronzeville Bronzeville Boys and Girls (children’s picture book by Brooks)   Other Related Books or Materials A Surprised Queenhood in the Black Sun: the Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Books (Poetry Foundation article and poetry) Remembering the Great Poet, Gwendolyn...

Works by Jim Harrison The Road Home Legends of the Fall The Essential Poems The River Swimmer: novellas   Other Related Books or Materials “Alfresco” a poem by Merrill Gilfillan (Poetry Foundation) Grizzly Years by Doug Peacock Cloudbursts: Collected and New Stories by Thomas McGuane Gallatin Canyon: Stories by Thomas McGuane Driving on the Rim: a Novel by Thomas McGuane Thomas McGuane remembers h...

Works by Jim Harrison The Road Home Legends of the Fall Dalva True North   Works about Jim Harrison Off to the Side: a Memoir Jim Harrison, the Art of Fiction, No. 104 (Paris Review article, summer 1988) Jim Harrison, the Mozart of the Prairies (New Yorker article, March 2016)   Other Related Books or Materials The Raw and the Cooked: Cooking Your Life by Jim Harrison (Esquire article, June 1991)...

Works by Susan Sontag From America The Volcano Lover Tuesday, and After: New Yorker Writers Respond to 9/11 (New Yorker article from Sep 2001) Regarding the Pain of Others Debriefing: Collected Stories   Works about Susan Sontag Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser Robert Fulford: A Sojourn With Susan Sontag (National Post article from 2012) Susan Sontag: The Complete Rolling Stone Intervie...

Writers Off the Page is a biweekly podcast series produced by Toronto Public Library that presents the best of 40 years from the archives of the Toronto International Festival of Authors (formerly known as IFOA: International Festival of Authors). Between 10-20 minutes long, episodes feature interviews, readings and discussions with some of the 20th century's best-known writers.   Works by Susan S...

Books by Susan Sontag The Benefactor Illness as Metaphor/AIDS and Its Metaphors From America   Books about Susan Sontag Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser   Other Books or Materials Mentioned Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Film: David Lean’s 1946 version of Great Expectations (Criterion Collection) The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov   About the Host: Novelist Randy Boyago...

Books by Susan Sontag: Illness as Metaphor/AIDS and Its Metaphors In America: A Novel Fascinating Fascism: Susan Sontag on Leni Riefenstahl (The New York Review of Books) Notes on "Camp" Books about Susan Sontag: Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser About the Host: Novelist Randy Boyagoda is a professor of English at the University of Toronto and principal of St. Michael’s College, where he...