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Jan 2020
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A Life of Activism: Larry Kramer in Conv...

TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Works by Larry Kramer

The American People: Volume 1: The Search for My Heart

The American People: Volume 2: The Brutality of Fact: a Novel

The Normal Heart

The Destiny of Me: a Play in Three Acts

Larry Kramer: What Pride Means to Me (link opens Salon.com article from June, 2019)

 

About Larry Kramer

We Must Love One Another or Die: the Life and Legacies of Larry Kramer

Larry Kramer: In Love & Anger (2015 documentary)

 

Other Related Books or Materials

The Normal Heart (2014 film starring Matthew Bomer)

Larry Kramer is Still the Angriest Man in the World (link opens an Interview Magazine article from Dec 2019)

 

Books by or About June Callwood
Trial Without End: A Shocking Story of Women and AIDS

It’s All About Kindness: Remembering June Callwood

 

About June Callwood

June Callwood, often dubbed, “Canada’s Conscience,” was a journalist who wrote over 2,000 articles in her career, spanning six decades. Her work as a social activist made her a champion of free speech and intellectual freedom and she was the founder or co-founder or many Canadian charities including Casey House (Canada’s first hospice for those suffering from AIDS) and Jessie’s, the June Callwood Centre for Young Women. She also founded the Toronto Public Library’s annual lecture series, the June Callwood Lecture, which honours each year an activist who provides a platform for the exploration and discussion of contemporary social justice issues. Recent lecturers have included Albert Woodfox, Ahmad Danny Ramadan and Clara Hughes.

Born in 1924 in Chatham, Ontario, Callwood died, in Toronto, in 2007, leaving a legacy as one of Canada’s most important champions of social justice.

 

About the Host

Novelist Randy Boyagoda is a professor of English at the University of Toronto and principal of St. Michael’s College, where he holds the Basilian Chair in Christianity, Arts, and Letters. He is the author of three novels: Original Prin, Beggar's Feast, and Governor of the Northern Province. His fiction has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (2006) and IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize (2012), and named a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Selection (2012 and 2019) and Globe and Mail Best Book (2018). He contributes essays, reviews, and opinions to publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, First Things, Commonweal, Harper’s, Financial Times (UK), Guardian, New Statesman, Globe and Mail, and National Post, in addition to appearing frequently on CBC Radio. He served as President of PEN Canada from 2015-2017.

Music is by Yuka

From the Archives

Writers Off the Page: 40 Years of TIFA is the first series associated with the Toronto Public Library’s multi-year digital initiative, From the Archives, which presents curated and digitized audio, video and other content from some of Canada’s biggest cultural institutions and organizations.

Thanks to the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) for allowing TPL access to their archives to feature some of the best-known writers in the world from moments in the past. Thanks as well to Library and Archives Canada for generously allowing TPL access to these archives.

 

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