TODAY AT IFOA

The Festival is well and truly ON, with scores of authors already having safely made their way from countries far and wide.

Unseasonably mild weather in Toronto means that though our theatres may be a little warm, (when you're dressing for an event, please don't bundle up...) Harbourfront Centre and Lake Ontario couldn't look more beautiful to our visiting literary friends. Come down and see for yourself!

TODAY AT IFOA ...

This week's NOW magazine cover girl Nikita Lalwani has checked in and is checking out the city. Nikita was unable to watch her home team lose the Rugby World Cup Final as she was engaged in giving a winning reading of her Booker-longlisted novel at IFOA. Books, for this author, clearly won over sports today.

This morning, Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) and Kenneth Oppel commended, to a younger-than-normal IFOA audience, their favourite movies: "The Lair of the White Worm" and "Jaws" respectively ... Kids: Don't have nightmares ...

In a round table discussing "The Reluctant Muse" author Janette Turner Hospital praised Joseph Conrad as a "consummate master of the English language". We at IFOA look forward to hearing more about said master when renowned biographer John Stape presents his new biography of the late great Conrad - Sunday October 21 at 2 pm.
(Thanks to Ms Hospital for the segue)

Sunday at IFOA has events starting at noon and finishing at 5pm. Some are ticketed; some are free.
First out of the block for the day:
Man Booker Winner Anne Enright interviewed by FinePrint's Carolyn Weaver!
(Anne Enright read to a rapt crowd at the Festival this evening - this interview is an event not to be missed)