Happy October! Since we're nearing Thanksgiving, we'd like to send a big thank-you to all the people who dropped by the Coach House tables at The Word On The Street and the Queen West Art Crawl in Toronto this past month. It was great to see you, and if you liked what you saw at Coach House then, we hope you'll join us for one or more of our many author events this October.

Coast-to-coast, Coach House authors will be rocking across North America this month – we have events scheduled in New York City, L.A., Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto and many points in-between. It's like a Coach House North American tour! October also marks the release of three of our new fall books – Touch To Affliction by Nathalie Stephens, King by Tanya Chapman and The River of Dead Trees by Andrée A. Michaud. Look for them soon at your local bookstore or pre-order them online at the Coach House Books website.

Coach House Takes Manhattan

October 9th through 11th, Coach House Books is hitting the Big Apple to celebrate its 40th year of publishing, and we're bringing four of our acclaimed poets along for the ride. Over three nights, in three separate events, Coach House will bring a taste of great Canadian poetry (delicious) to New York City.

On Monday, October 9th, Jon Paul Fiorentino, author of Hello Serotonin and The Theory of the Loser Class, reads at New York City's Poetry Project at St.Mark's Church (131 E. 10th Street). He is joined by Paul Foster Johnson, author of Refrains/Unworkings.

The October edition of the belladonna* Reading Series (October 10th) features Coach House's Margaret Christakos (Sooner, Excessive Love Prostheses) and angela rawlings (Wide slumber for lepidopterists). Dixon Place (258 Bowery, 2nd Floor) is where you'll find the evening's festivities.

Then on October 11 – the main event! Join Coach House Books in celebrating their fortieth anniversary (one year late – we were busy) at New York City’s Poets House (72 Spring Street, 2nd Floor). Coach House authors Sina Queyras (Lemon Hound), Margaret Christakos (Sooner), angela rawlings (Wide slumber for lepidopterists) and Jon Paul Fiorentino (The Theory of the Loser Class) present a night of witty and astonishing poetic performances hosted by Coach House senior editor Alana Wilcox.

The Coach House Fall Launch

Join Coach House Books in celebrating the launch of three fall books at Revival (783 College Street, Toronto) on Tuesday, October 24. The evening will feature readings by Fall authors Tanya Chapman (King), Nathalie Stephens (Touch To Affliction) and Andrée A. Michaud (The River of Dead Trees), and more music and merriment than you can even begin to conceive. If you've never been to a Coach House seasonal launch before, you'll want to go to see how fun and friendly a book launch can be.

Two days earlier, we'll be celebrating the fall launch in Montreal with our friends at Snare Books. On Sunday, October 22, Coach House Books and Snare Books will launch their fall titles together at The Green Room (5386 St. Laurent). Featured authors include Angela Carr (Ropewalk), Tanya Chapman (King), Nathalie Stephens (Paper City, Touch to Affliction , ), and Zoe Whittall (The Best Ten Minutes of Your Life, The Emily Valentine Poems).

More October Events

5 October – Canadian Writers in Person Series at York University features Margaret Christakos

Margaret Christakos reads from her latest book, Sooner at York University as part of the Canadian Writers in Person series. The Canadian Writers in Person is a series of free public readings, which are also part of an introductory course on Canadian literature. Readings are held every two weeks on Thursday evenings.

5 & 6 October – Darren O'Donnell administers Social Acupuncture in L.A.

Prior to unleashing Haircuts By Children on southern California, author Darren O'Donnell presents his book Social Acupuncture, an extended essay outlining the possibility for a civically engaged artistic practice, and stages "Q&A," a simple performance game that introduces the concept of entreveillance: observation from between. Readings happen at The Mountain (473 Gin Ling Way) on October 5th and LACE (6522 Hollywood Blvd.) on October 6th.

6 October – Nathalie Stephens at the launch of Spirale Magazine

Nathalie Stephens (Touch To Affliction) reads at the launch of the latest issue of Spirale Magazine at Librairie Olivieri ( 5219 Chemin de la Cote-Des-Neiges) in Montreal. (Note: readings and Spirale Magazine are en francais.)

9 - 11 October – Coach House takes Manhattan

See above for details.

13 October – a.rawlings Philadelphia Extravaganza

Author of Wide slumber for lepidopterists, a. rawlings, reads in Philadelphia, at the MOLES NOT MOLAR Reading Series. Readings take place at 7:30 p.m. at the Nexus Gallery (137 N. 2nd Street).

13 October – Nathalie Stephens at International Translation Workshop – University of Iowa

Nathalie Stephens (Touch To Affliction) leads a translation workshop at the University of Iowa, 2:30 p.m. - 4:20 p.m., at Shambaugh House library (430 N. Clinton).

14 & 15 October – Haircuts By Children in Los Angeles

Following the tremendous success of Haircuts by Children in Toronto in the spring of 2006, Darren O'Donnell (Social Acupuncture, Your Secrets Sleep With Me) and Naomi Campbell are travelling to Los Angeles, hosted by Outpost for Contemporary Art, to work with Kathleen Diener's Grade 6 students from Luther Burbank Middle School in Highland Park, and supervising stylist Christy Honsberger of Ellouise Hair Salon, Pasadena, to offer the public free haircuts on Saturday, October 14 and Sunday, October 15, 2006.

On Saturday, October 14, haircuts are given at Susy's Beauty Salon (5914 N. Figueroa St.), 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. On Sunday, October 15, get your haircut at Odette's New Styles (5914 N. Figueroa St.), 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

15 October – Nathalie Stephens brings Touch To Affliction to Iowa City

Nathalie Stephens, author of Touch To Affliction and Paper City, reads in Iowa City at Prairie Lights Bookstore (15 S. Dubuque Street). She will read with highly acclaimed poets Laksmi Pamuntjak (Ellipsis) and Nico Alvarado-Greenwood. Readings begins at 5:00 p.m.

22 October – Coach House Books / Snare Books Dual Launch in Montreal

See above for details.

23 October – Nathalie Stephens at the Test Reading Series

One day prior to the big Coach House Books Fall Launch, Nathalie Stephens, author of Paper City and Touch To Affliction, reads at the Test Reading Series with Rob Reed. The Test Reading Series takes place at Mercer Union (37 Lisgar Street) at 7:30 p.m.

24 October – Coach House Books Toronto Fall Launch

See above for details. Be there or be square.

26 October – Tanya Chapman at the UBC Robson Reading Series

Tanya Chapman, author of the new Coach House novel King, will read at the UBC Robson Reading Series at 7:00 p.m as part of their Small Press Event. Joining Tanya is Tom Osborne, author of Foozlers and Dead Man in the Orchestra Pit (Anvil Press). Readings take place at UBC Robson Square Bookstore (800 Robson Street).

27 October – Montreal Book Launch of The River of Dead Trees

Andrée A. Michaud launches The River of Dead Trees, the English translation of her acclaimed Le Pendu de Trempes, at Paragraphe Books at 7:30 p.m. Also launching his new book is Nicholas Maes, author of Dead Man's Float, from our friends at Véhicule Press.

30 October – Tanya Chapman at the Vancouver Public Library

Tanya Chapman reads from her debut novel King with Jenn Farrell, author of Sugar Bush and Other Stories (from the fantastic Anvil Press) at the Vancouver Public Library.

Phew, that's a lot of events.

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