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Marissa Reaume

Another Bookfest Windsor Evening

Posted November 8, 2009 @ 12:07PM

On Friday I attended another Bookfest Windsor event. The venue itself—the Art Gallery’s Valiant/Rodzik room on the 3rd floor—made the event worth attending. It is a long, partially triangular room that points toward the river with its glass window walls. Regardless of where audience members were seated, almost everyone had a view of the twinkling lights across the water in Detroit, as well as the cars rolling down Riverside Drive. I think this location would be perfect for a wedding reception at any time of the year because in the summer the sun would shine through the walls of glass illuminating the room, and in the winter those inside the room would feel as if they were in a snow globe.
The authors read from a podium at one end of the long white floor as audience members listened attentively from their rows of white chairs. Karl Jirgens (the event’s moderator) was first to read, followed by Brian Henderson, Nicole Markotić, and Susan Holbrook. Nicole Markotić and Susan Holbrook read from their new books—Nicole’s a fiction novel titled Scrapbook of My Years as a Zealot (published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2008) and Susan’s a collection of poetry called Joy Is So Exhausting (published by Coach House Books in 2009). The publication dates of these books confirm that, despite the recession, people are still creating and producing.

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