Come crush a cup of wine with us as we celebrate our new titles and the holiday season!

Aaron Giovannone, The Loneliness Machine (Poetry)
Gayle Gonsalves, Painting Pictures and Other Stories (Fiction)
Gonzalo Riedel, Behaving This Way is All I Have Left (Fiction)
Dan Yashinsky, Swimming With Chaucer (Fiction)

Monday, December 16, 2013
7 PM
The Dora Keogh 
141 Danforth Ave

Aaron Giovannone is a poet and translator. Among his publications is the chapbook Castelliri (No Press, 2007). He is currently working on a new English translation of twentieth-century Italian poet Sandro Penna. Originally from St. Catharines, Aaron has lived and studied in Italy and is now completing a Ph.D. at the University of Calgary.

Part meditation, part confession, part comedy bit, The Loneliness Machine—Giovannone’s first full-length collection of poetry—is a strikingly new rendition of the trope of the suffering artist that takes dramatic risks and rarely fails to charm.



Gayle Gonsalves’ stories have appeared in The Bluelight Corner, In the Black, and So the Nailhead Bend, So the Story End. She holds a B.A. from York University, and lives and writes in Toronto.

In the stories of Painting Pictures, set in Canada and the Caribbean, day-to-day incidents set the stage for events that affect and change lives.



Gonzalo Riedel lives in Winnipeg with his wife and son.

In Behaving This Way is All I Have Left, Riedel writes about fools and low-lifes who cannot help but make mistakes. His stories are taut and perversely funny, often punctuated with moments of heartbreak, and his characters are classic scumbags who put their own interests before all others—to hell with everyone else. 


In Swimming with Chaucer, Dan Yashinsky shares gems from his treasure trove of stories and thoughts. We travel from the neonatal ICU at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children to the erotic realm of the Blue Djinn, from a mythical forest path to a British Columbia beach, but everywhere we go we are accompanied by Yashinsky’s gentle, quizzical, sometimes bawdy, and always entertaining voice.

Dan Yashinsky is a professional storyteller. He won the 2007 Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice Award and was shortlisted for the 1991 Toronto Book Award. He founded the Toronto Storytelling Festival, was one of the founders of the Storytellers School of Toronto, and began the still-running 1001 Friday Nights of Storytelling in 1978. In 1999, he was the recipient of the Jane Jacobs Prize.