Join us for the book launch of Stroll, updated edition by Shawn Micallef!

There will be an optinal dinner at 6pm and the event will start at 7pm.

Shawn will be in conversation with jornalist Edward Keenan.

The updated edition of a Toronto favourite meanders around some of the city’s unique neighborhoods and considers what makes a city walkable

What is the 'Toronto look'? Glass skyscrapers rise beside Victorian homes, and Brutalist apartment buildings often mark the edge of leafy ravines, creating a city of contrasts whose architectural look can only be defined by telling the story of how it came together and how it works, today, as an imperfect machine.

Acsessibility Information: The front entrance to Lula is fully accessible. There is one step down onto the dance floor and one or two steps to the elevated dining areas. We have a movable ramp that allows wheelchairs and walkers to access the dance floor and the elevated dining area on the east side. There is a fully accessible universal washroom on the main floor off the lobby. The coat check, basement washrooms and mezzanine areas are not yet accessible. Requests related to accessibility can be directed to info@lula.ca. Clients are encouraged to reach out before visiting us if they have questions or concerns.

Join us for readings at the Book Launch for Susan Atkinson, Matthew Tierney & Spencer Gordon. FREE.

Please join us for the launch of the new poetry collections Good Want by Domenica Martinello and I Will Get Off Of by Samina Banu.

There will be readings from Simina and Domenica as well as T. Liem and Gwen Aube.

Hosted by Tara McGowan-Ross..

Book sales from Drawn & Quarterly.

Presented by Coach House Books.

LE RITZ PDB IS WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE, WITH A METAL RAMP ON THE INSIDE OF THE FRONT ENTRANCE. THE BAR IS LOCATED ON THE GROUND FLOOR, ITS ENTRY FACING DIRECTLY ONTO JEAN-TALON OUEST. WASHROOMS ARE ALSO WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE AND GENDER-NEUTRAL.

Please join us for the Charlottetown launch of Matthew Tierney’s newest collection of poetry Lossless, on Wednesday, May 29th from 7 to 8:30 pm in the Carriage House at Beaconsfield Historic House.Tierney’s new collection takes its title from lossless data compression algorithms. It positions the sonnet as lines of code that transmit through time and space those ‘stabs of self,’ the awareness of being that intensifies with loss of relationships, of faith, of childhood, of people.The qualities of light, colour, and movement in the sonnets conjure a sense of arrested time, of dust motes in the air. Playing against this intimacy are loopy chapters of Borgesian prose poems – with appearances from Duns Scotus and Simone Weil, Wittgenstein, Niels Bohr and others – that extract knowledge from information to reconstruct the source experience into a subjectivity, a personality, and a life.

What hurts more: a blow to the head, or when your pet shark goes missing?

In his new novel Pet, Pet, Slap author Andrew Battershill returns to the strange and surreal world of Pillow, a past-his prime boxer with a penchant for the absurd. This time around Pillow is trying to clean up his act– to mixed results, and what follows is part underdog sports story, part work of Neozoological Surrealism, and part existential mystery novel.

Join Andrew in conversation with author Zsuzsi Gartner and get in the ring with this “reckless, desperate, and achingly human” new novel.