TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 Art Bar Reading Series: Valentine's Day special, with Valentino Assenza. Free Times Café, 320 College St., Toronto. 8 p.m. $5. artbar.org The Violet Hour: With Jordan Arseneault (aka Peaches Lepage), Craig Barron, Johanne Cadorette, Daniel Allen Cox, ... Read More »

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6 Kristine Scarrow: Launching the book If This is Home. McNally Robinson Books, 3130 8th St. E., Saskatoon. 7 p.m. Free TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7 Rowers Reading Series: With David Clink, Melanie Mah, Lana ... Read More »

TUESDAY, JANUARY 31 Art Bar Reading Series: With Dane Swan, Barry Olshen, and Karen Mulhallen. Free Times Café, 320 College St., Toronto. 8 p.m. $5 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1 Dennis McConaghy: Launching his book Dysfunction: Canada ... Read More »

TUESDAY, JANUARY 24 Art Bar Reading Series: With Steve Venright, John Oughton, and Stephen Humphrey. Free Times Café, 320 College St., Toronto. 8 p.m. $5. artbar.org Dennis McConaghy: Launch of the book Dysfunction. Calgary Petroleum ... Read More »

MONDAY, JANUARY 16 Peter Jennings: Speaking on his book Shark Assault. Best Western Hotel, 400 Memorial Ave., Orillia, Ont. 10 a.m. Free TUESDAY, JANUARY 17 Art Bar Reading Series: With Claudio Duran, Vanessa Shields, Rosa ... Read More »

TUESDAY, JANUARY 10 Rowers Reading Series: With Joan Crate, Adebe DeRango-Adem, Jacob McArthur Mooney, and Hoa Nguyen. Supermarket, 268 Augusta Ave., Toronto. 6:30 p.m. Free. rowerspubreadingseries.com Art Bar Reading Series: With Lucy Brennan, Jeff Cottrill, ... Read More »