Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives

Toronto Public Library

A monthly series produced and curated by Toronto Public Library (TPL), celebrating the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA). Episodes feature recorded on-stage interviews, readings or panel discussions with some of the 20th century's best-known writers and thinkers. Hosted by novelist, Randy Boyagoda.

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Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives

Episodes (34)

Apr 22nd Martha Gellhorn: The Face of War
Jan 21st Linda Gray Sexton: Anne Sexton's 45 Mercy Street
May 2, 2025 Seamus Heaney: Death of a Naturalist

Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives

Apr 22, 2026
36½ minutes
33 MB

In this electrifying episode of Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives, travel back to October 1992 to hear Martha Gellhorn — novelist, journalist, and witness to nearly every major conflict of the twentieth century — read from the newly revised conclusion to her landmark book The Face of War, first published in 1959 and updated across five editions as Gellhorn found herself, again and again, unable to look away. At 84, in what would prove to be one of her final public appearances, Gellhorn arrives at the Harbourfront stage not to reminisce but to provoke. She takes phrases we have hear...

Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives

Martha Gellhorn: The Face of War

Toronto Public Library

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