What's On at the Library

On Saturday, April 18, 2010, a sold-out crowd gathered at the Appel Salon at the Toronto Reference Library to see an author who has (arguably) combined critical and commercial success as effectively as any other living novelist.

Ian McEwan (author of Atonement and Saturday) read a pret-ty durned hilarious passage from his new novel, Solar, a black comedy about a has-been Nobel-winning physicist’s disastrous adventures in climate science. Afterwards, McEwan was interviewed by Ian Brown about his career, his response to bad reviews, and the pleasures of being surprised by his own writing.

(If you're wondering what you missed, we should have a video of the event posted on our video page sometime next week.)

The event was part of the Globe and Mail Open House Festival, which will continue over the weekend of May 1^st with six (mostly sold-out) events at the Appel Salon, as well as a number of events in other locations around the city.