Poets & Writers Theater
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“I wanted to write about a father and daughter in a building made of time.” Madeleine Thien talks about the genealogy of ideas and yearslong process of writing her novel The Book of Records (Norton, 2025) in this Toronto Public Library event with Elamin Abdelmahmoud. For more from Thien, read “Hopeless Hope: A Conversation With Madeleine Thien” by Renée H. Shea.
Tags: Fiction | Madeleine Thien | The Book of Records | Norton | Elamin Abdelmahmoud | Toronto Public Library | 2025 -
Elamin Abdelmahmoud discusses his debut memoir, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces (Ballantine Books, 2022), with writer Sarah Hagi in this video for Toronto Reference Library’s Appel Salon series. Abdelmahmoud is featured in “The New Nonfiction 2022” in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
