The Art of the Memoir: Cody Caetano & Isaac Fitzgerald

Isaac Fitzgerald, Cody Caetano and Emily Donaldson

The Art of the Memoir: Cody Caetano & Isaac Fitzgerald

Isaac Fitzgerald, Cody Caetano and Emily Donaldson

1:00pm

Saturday, September 24, 2022

Sharing deeply personal stories can be at once terrifying and healing, which makes the memoir genre so very necessary. Presenting two highly anticipated new memoirs are bestselling authors Cody Caetano and Isaac Fitzgerald. Winner of the 2020 Indigenous Voices Award, Caetano’s Half-Bads in White Regalia captures the chaos, wonder, warmth and humour of coming of age, amongst tangled family history. Fitzgerald, a frequent contributor to The Today Show and Buzzfeed Books editor, presents the memoir-in-essays Dirtbag, Massachusetts details a childhood that moves at breakneck speed from safety to violence, and a lifelong battle through trauma to self-understanding and acceptance.

Moderated by Emily Donaldson.

Ticket Info:
Date & Time: September 24 at 1pm ET
Where: Harbourfront Centre Theatre
Duration: 60 minutes
Ticket prices: $17 – Regular; $12 – Youth; or Get a TIFA Pass
*This event will be followed by a book signing

Conversation

Sharing deeply personal stories can be at once terrifying and healing, which makes the memoir genre so very necessary. Presenting two highly anticipated new memoirs are bestselling authors Cody Caetano and Isaac Fitzgerald. Winner of the 2020 Indigenous Voices Award, Caetano’s Half-Bads in White Regalia captures the chaos, wonder, warmth and humour of coming of age, amongst tangled family history. Fitzgerald, a frequent contributor to The Today Show and Buzzfeed Books editor, presents the memoir-in-essays Dirtbag, Massachusetts details a childhood that moves at breakneck speed from safety to violence, and a lifelong battle through trauma to self-understanding and acceptance.

Moderated by Emily Donaldson.

Ticket Info:
Date & Time: September 24 at 1pm ET
Where: Harbourfront Centre Theatre
Duration: 60 minutes
Ticket prices: $17 – Regular; $12 – Youth; or Get a TIFA Pass
*This event will be followed by a book signing

Conversation

Featured Authors

Isaac Fitzgerald
Isaac Fitzgerald appears frequently on The Today Show and is the author of the bestselling children's book How to Be a Pirate as well as the co-author of Pen & Ink and Knives & Ink (winner of an IACP Award). His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Best American Nonrequired Reading, and numerous other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Cody Caetano
Cody Caetano is a writer of Anishinaabe and Portuguese descent and an off-reserve member of Pinaymootang First Nation. He has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto, where he wrote this memoir under the mentorship of Lee Maracle. Excerpts of Half-Bads in White Regalia earned him a 2020 Indigenous Voices Award for Unpublished Prose.

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Emily Donaldson
Emily Donaldson is a book critic and editor whose writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the Globe and Mail, Maclean's, the Toronto Star, the National Post, the Walrus, and Quill and Quire. She was editor of Best Canadian Essays 2019 (Biblioasis), and is current editor of Canadian Notes & Queries, the country's oldest magazine of literary criticism. Her writing has been nominated for Governor General’s and National Magazine awards. Originally from Montreal, she lives in Toronto with her husband and two sons. 

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1:00pm

Saturday, September 24

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