Hot Sheet #3 - Wednesday, October 22

The Hot Sheet

Fantastic Festival events with tickets still available!

Wednesday, October 22

Event 25: A Community of Characters | Waterfront Theatre | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/25-community-characters
Maylis de Kerangal | Cristina Henríquez | Kate Pullinger

Cristina Henríquez portrays a family of Hispanic immigrants struggling with life in America. The lives of Maylis de Kerangal’s 12 characters become interconnected as they work to build a bridge, and Kate Pullinger’s novel reveals a family that is growing apart, until an incredible event pulls them back together.

Event 26: The Real Deal | Studio 1398 | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/26-real-deal
Marie Lu | Robert Paul Weston

Young, talented and brimming with creativity, Marie Lu and Robert Paul Weston have made buzz-worthy debuts. The bestselling author of the Legend series, Lu is back with The Young Elites. And Weston mixes music and mystery to tell the age old story of growing up.

Event 29: An Evening with James Ellroy | Waterfront Theatre | 8:30 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/29-evening-james-ellroy

Best known for his LA Quartet series, which includes The Black Dahlia and LA Confidential, James Ellroy has returned to the lives of some of his best-known characters with his new novel Perfidia. Spend an evening with this master of noir, who writes crime fiction on an “epic, transcendental scale.”

Thursday, October 23

Event 43: My Life in Middlemarch | Performance Works | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/43-my-life-middlemarch

The New Yorker staff writer Rebecca Mead first read Middlemarch at the age of 17 and, since then, has read it every five years or so. Join Mead as she explores “the way a book can insert itself into a reader’s own life story” and reflect on the impact of your favourite novel.

Event 46: The Hook | Performance Works | 8:30 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/46-hook
Aislinn Hunter | Eric McCormack | Sarah Waters | Ian Weir

Suspense, rollicking action and magic realism—hooking the reader is the focus of tonight’s discussion. Join Aislinn Hunter, who brings the past to life, Eric McCormack, “a spellbinder,” Sarah Waters, master of psychological tension, and Ian Weir, with his “uncanny ear for the earthy slang of Regency London.”

Event 47: Truth and Fiction | Waterfront Theatre | 8:30 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/47-truth-and-fiction
Jacqueline Baker | Damon Galgut | Steven Galloway

The complexities of fictionalizing the lives of real people are up for discussion this evening. Steven Galloway’s The Confabulist is based on the life of Houdini. Damon Galgut based his novel on the life of E.M. Forster over the 12 years that he was writing A Passage to India. And Jacqueline Baker’s novel is a haunting portrait of America’s first horror writer, H.P. Lovecraft.

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http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/tickets
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