{"id":1913,"date":"2007-05-22T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2007-05-22T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-22T17:56:00","slug":"imagining-toronto-how-writers-capture-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/05\/22\/imagining-toronto-how-writers-capture-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagining Toronto: how writers capture the city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/147\/343281393_ff843309d1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Haunted subway tunnels? A riot at Christie Pits? The CN Tower toppled into Lake Ontario?<\/p>\n<p>Spacing columnist Amy Lavender Harris (<em>Imagining Toronto<\/em>) and Gary Michael Dault (<em>Cells of Ourselves, The Milk of Birds<\/em>) explore Toronto&#8217;s place in the literary imagination and discuss how Toronto writers capture the city&#8217;s diversity and growth, as well as its nightmares, desires, and secrets.<\/p>\n<p>The talk will be held on (next) <strong>Thursday 31 May, 2007, at 7:00 at the Lillian H. Smith Library<\/strong> at <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;q=239+College+Street+toronto&#038;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&#038;sspn=44.928295,80.068359&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;z=16&#038;iwloc=addr&#038;om=1\">239 College Street<\/a>. My guest will be Gary Michael Dault, a poet, painter and arts writer.\u00a0 As you already know, my own role in this is via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imaginingtoronto.com \">Imagining Toronto<\/a> project, which explores intersections of literature and place in the Toronto region.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/gemmagrace\/\">Gemma Grace<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haunted subway tunnels? A riot at Christie Pits? The CN Tower toppled into Lake Ontario? 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