Tea & sympathy

A Thin Air lunch...

Library humor

All the suits quizzing by, the slightly quizzical looks...

ANOTHER author sighting

Prairie Fire's Janine Tschuncky squires Thin Air author/Bliss Carmen winner Nora Gould around...and ALSO stops in at Aqua Books.

(Colin Smith was making funny...)

Author sighting

Thin Air author Lawrence Scanlan is brought to Aqua Books for lunch by YA writer/editor Anita Daher.

Author sighting 2

The blur when poet and scallawag Colin Smith told Anita and Lawrence that saying the word "shit" produced the same expression as saying the word "cheese".

Afternoon book chat #2

David Bergen and Michael Lista at the afternoon book chat at McNally's.

The bright lights...

Mainstage: Re-Writing History

All the traditional elements of a mainstage: wine, cheese, books and red chairs full of people.

Panorama: Smart & Wright

Can you tell I've got a new device to train on the festival?

Chittery chat

Carolyn Smart reads from Hooked at the afternoon book chat at McNally's.

Mainstage: Opening Night

And yes, the sound man was eating an ice cream cone...

Hosp suite hijinks 3

Tavia getting out from under the glass sink in the hosp suite...

Hosp suite hijinks 2

Tavia in the hosp suite bathroom, under the glass sink. Really.

Hosp suite hijinks

Tavia and Michael in the hosp suite, pre-fest...

THIN AIR author at Aqua

Ignatius Mabasa is a writer and storyteller from Zimbabwe. He'll be the storyteller-in-residence at the U of M this fall...and also doing events at THIN AIR. And he walked into Aqua last week and headed straight for the theology section. Where I persecuted him with my camera.

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Ariel Gordon has two chapbooks to her credit, The navel gaze (Palimpsest Press) and Guidelines: Malaysia & Indonesia, 1999 (Rubicon Press), and this spring, Palimpsest published her first full-length poetry collection, Hump. She recently won the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer at the Manitoba Book Awards. When not being bookish, Ariel likes tromping through the woods and taking macro photographs of mushrooms.