The
26th Annual Cherie Smith JCCGV
Jewish Book Festival November 20-25, 2010
SUNDAY october 24
Special Pre-Festival Event Writer's Salon
Yann Martel
Beatrice & Virgil
SUNDAY OCT 24
4:00-6:00PM | at the home of Deborah Roitberg & Jack Amar (Granville & 16th)
$118.00 - includes signed copy of the book Beatrice & Virgil and a tax receipt.
Meet master storyteller and Booker Prize winner YANN MARTEL, author of Life of Pi and Beatrice & Virgil as he
reads from his new bestseller Beatrice & Virgil.
This special event includes hors d'oeuvres, a tax receipt, and most importantly, a chance for intimate conversation with Martel about the astonishing themes and perspectives in his writing. more...
TUESDAY november 9
Special Pre-Festival Event Report from Israel
Martin Fletcher
Walking Israel
TUESDAY NOV 9
8:00PM | Norman Rothstein Theatre
$18.00
Martin Fletcher, long-time NBC Bureau Chief in Tel Aviv, has seen war,
famine, killings and tragedy in his nearly four decades as a highly respected
war correspondent and bureau chief. In 2008, he took on a different
assignment, one that changed the outlook of this veteran newsman in a way
he never saw coming. Instead of walking into a war zone, Martin Fletcher
walked into the soul of a nation. more...
SUNDAY november 21
Special Event The inaugural Sol and Shirley Kort Author Series
A Unique View of the World
Gary Shteyngart
Super Sad True Love Story Host: Eleanor Wachtel
SUNDAY NOV 21
7:30PM | Norman Rothstein Theatre
$21.00 / $19.00 student & senior (tax incl.)
“It’s not easy to summarize Shteyngart; there’s so much satirical gunpowder packed into every sentence that the effect gets lost in the short version. This is a love story [that is] ridiculously witty and painfully prescient.” —Time
Wildly funny, rich, and humane, Gary Steyngart’s new novel, Super Sad True Love Story is a masterful book in which falling in love just may redeem a planet falling apart. more...
TUESDAY november 23
Special Event for Book Clubs and Book Lovers
Myla Goldberg
Bee Season
The False Friend Host: Sheryl MacKay
Author, Myla Goldberg talks about her national best seller, Bee Season (2000) and her upcoming book, The False Friend (Oct 2010) in a special event tailor-made for book clubs and book lovers. Whether your book club has only one member (you), or fifteen, is ‘real’ or ‘faux’, everyone is welcome to attend. Popular CBC host, Sheryl MacKay, hosts the evening. more...
