Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives
A monthly series produced and curated by Toronto Public Library (TPL), celebrating the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA). Episodes feature recorded on-stage interviews, readings or panel discussions with some of the 20th century's best-known writers and thinkers. Hosted by novelist, Randy Boyagoda.
- Update frequency
- every 20 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 32
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Grace Paley Saves the World
Works by Grace Paley
The Little Disturbances of Man
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Grace Paley, the Saint of Seeing by George Saunders (link ope…
Gwendolyn Brooks: The World Might Continue
Works by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks (Poetry Foundation article)
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“Traveling” with Grace Paley
Works by Grace Paley
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The Art and Activism of Grace Paley (link opens a New Yorker article from…
Gwendolyn Brooks: Poems That (Don't) Cough Lightly
Works by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
Bronzeville Boys and Girls (children’s picture book by Brooks)
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Jim Harrison: “Don’t Make Me Dirty, Darling”
Works by Jim Harrison
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“Alfresco” a poem by Merrill Gilfillan (Poetry Foundation)
Jim Harrison: “You’ve Made Quite a Living From Your Fibs”
Works by Jim Harrison
Works about Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison, the Art of Fiction, No. 104 (Paris Review article, summer 1988)
Susan Sontag: "Make Something Better"
Works by Susan Sontag
Tuesday, and After: New Yorker Writers Respond to 9/11 (New Yorker article from Sep 2001)
Wo…
Susan Sontag: “The Arts Give Humans Dignity”
Writers Off the Page is a biweekly podcast series produced by Toronto Public Library that presents the best of 40 years from the archives of the Toronto International Festival of Authors (formerly kn…
Susan Sontag: “The Little Illness Book”
Books by Susan Sontag
Illness as Metaphor/AIDS and Its Metaphors
Books about Susan Sontag
Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser
Other Books or Materials Mentioned
Susan Sontag: “This God-Damned Celebrity Culture”
Books by Susan Sontag:
Illness as Metaphor/AIDS and Its Metaphors
Fascinating Fascism: Susan Sontag on Leni Riefenstahl (The New York Review of Books)
Books about Susan…