Reading: Nicholson Baker, Kyle Buckley, Iain Pears, Kathy Reichs.

Nicholson Baker is the author of several novels, including The Mezzanine, Vox and The Fermata, and four works of non-fiction: U and I, The Size of Thoughts, Double Fold (winner of the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award), and Human Smoke. Baker’s new novel, The Anthologist, is narrated by Paul Chowder, a poet whose career is falling apart. As Chowder struggles to write, he gradually realizes he is no longer writing an introduction to his poetry, but a tender, romantic, often hilarious novel.

Catherine Belyea is a broadcaster whose career in private radio and at the CBC has centred on music and the arts. This is the 13th year she has hosted readings and interviews at the IFOA.

Kyle Buckley is the author of the poetry collection The Laundromat Essay. He currently works at Type Books in Toronto and is a member of the Scream Literary Festival executive.

Iain Pears’ books include the bestsellers An Instance of the Fingerpost and The Dream of Scipio; a novella, The Portrait; and a series of acclaimed detective novels featuring art historian Jonathan Argyll. Pears returns with Stone’s Fall, his first full-length thriller since his groundbreaking debut. Shifting from London to Paris to Venice during the decades preceding WWI, it is an intricately plotted tale of murder, high-stakes international finance, and the roots of the 20th-century arms race.

Kathy Reichs is vice president of the American Academy of Forensic Scientists; a member of the RCMP National Police Services Advisory Council, forensic anthropologist to the province of Quebec; and a professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. She is the author of numerous bestselling thrillers including Déjà Dead, Monday Mourning, and Devil Bones. Reichs presents her latest thriller featuring Temperance Brennan, 206 Bones.