Works by Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose Foucault’s Pendulum The Prague Cemetery On the Shoulders of Giants   Other Related Books or Materials Signs and Secrets: the Worlds of Umberto Eco (2013 documentary) Always Narrating: The Making and Unmaking of Umberto Eco (link opens a 2020 Los Angeles Review of Book article) The Man Who Loved Books: Interview with Umberto Eco (link opens a 2020 Counterpunch article) Umberto Eco, The Art of Fiction, No. 197 (link opens a 2008 Paris Review article) Umberto Eco, 84, Best-selling Academic Who Navigated Two Words (link opens a 2016 New York Times obi ..read more

Works by Austin Clarke In This City They Never Told Me and Other Stories The Polished Hoe   Other Related Books or Materials Odetta’s 1960 recording of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” (link opens a Youtube video) Austin Clarke’s Harlem (link opens part of a CBC audio documentary produced by Austin Clarke in 1963 about the Civil Rights Movement) Why Literary Critics Failed to Define and Understand Austin Clarke (link opens a National Post article from 2016) Austin Clarke Quotes (link opens a Twitter account devoted to the quotes and other aspects of Clarke’s work) __ About the H ..read more

Works by Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook Stories by Doris Lessing The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels The Grass is Singing (ebook)   Other Related Books or Materials Doris Lessing: A Biography by Carole Klein Doris Lessing: First Visit to Toronto (link opens a 1984 photo by Reg Innell, courtesy of Toronto Star Archives at Toronto Public Library) Doris Lessing, Author Who Swept Aside Convention (link opens New York Times obituary from November 2013 Doris Lessing, The Art of Fiction (link opens Paris Review interview from 1988) ___ About the Host Novelist Randy Boyagoda is a professor of ..read more

Works by Eduardo Galeano Memory of Fire Volume One: Genesis Memory of Fire Volume Two: Faces and Masks Memory of Fire Volume Three: Century of the Wind Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History  Soccer in Sun and Shadow Las venas abiertas de américa latina (ebook)   Other Related Books or Materials The Pan American: The World of Eduardo Galeano (link opens an August 2018 article from The Nation) Women of the Mine - Les Mujeres de la mina - 2006 Film My Hero: Eduardo Galeano by Tariq Ali (link opens an April 2015 article from The Guardian) Eduardo Galeano (photo) "His vivid su ..read more

Works by Angela Carter Nights at the Circus The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks Writers Talk: Angela Carter with Lisa Appignanesi (evideo) The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (ebook)   Other Related Books or Materials Angela Carter: A Literary Life by Sarah Gamble Nights at the Circus is Feminist... (link opens an article from The Guardian from Feb 2017) Taking Flight with Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus  (link opens a piece from Tor.com from Apr 2017) Angela Carter: a staggering command of language (link opens TPL Special Collections page of the Toronto Star ..read more

Works by Luisa Valenzuela The Lizard’s Tail (print book) The Wanderer by Luisa Valenzuela, translated by Marguerite Feitlowitz (link opens a short story from The Brooklyn Rail's InTranslation) He Who Searches Latin American Literature Series (link opens Dalkey Archive Press site with two translated works - print on demand) Collections/Anthologies Containing Stories from Luisa Valenzuela Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories From Latin America and the United States (print book) Brevity by David Galef  The Will to Heal: Psychological Recovery in the Novels of Latina Writers (print boo ..read more

Works by Richard Wagamese A Quality of Light (ebook) One Drum: Stories and Ceremonies for a Planet (all formats) One Drum: Stories and Ceremonies for a Planet (audiobook) Starlight (ebook) Indian Horse   Other Related Books or Materials Honouring Richard Wagamese (link opens a 2017 article from Indian Horse) Richard Wagamese’s final novel ‘a captivating and ultimately uplifting read.’ (link opens a 2018 article from Toronto Star) Richard Wagamese, Whose Writing Explored his Ojibwe Heritage, Dies at 61 (link opens a 2017 New York Times obituary) Three ‘Meditations' from Richard Wagamese (l ..read more

Works by John Irving A Prayer for Owen Meany The World According to Garp (book in various formats) The World According to Gary (1982 film starring Robin Williams, Glenn Close and John Lithgow) Avenue of Mysteries The Cider House Rules Last Night in Twisted River Other Related Books or Materials 13 Facts about A Prayer for Owen Meany (link opens an article from Mental Floss from Apr 2015) John Irving in 1990 (link opens TPL Special Collections page of the Toronto Star Archives featuring a 1990 photo of Irving by Doug Griffin) Episode 162: A Prayer for Owen Meany (link opens a podcast episode b ..read more

Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections (indicated) and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Library card.  Read: Why are wait times on ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long?   Works by Bruce Chatwin The Songlines In Patagonia Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings, 1969-1989 (ebook) On the Black Hill (ebook) Utz (ebook) Books About Bruce Chatwin Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare Anywhere Out of the World: the Wor ..read more

Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections (indicated) and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Library card.  Read: Why are wait times on ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? __ Books by Lee Maracle Memory Serves (ebook) My Conversations with Canadians (ebook) Celia’s Song (ebook) Hope Matters (ebook) Other Related Books or Materials ‘We Have the Same Language, But Definitely Different Rules’: An Interview with Lee Maracle (l ..read more