#BookTalk with André Alexis, presented by Union Hotel x Giller Prize

📅 Tuesday, June 24, 2025
📍 The Lobby @ Union Hotel, Toronto
🎟️ Ticket includes: A pastry item & hot beverage, a glass of wine, a copy of Other Worlds, audience Q&A, a mix & mingle with the author (and the opportunity to get your book signed!)

Join Union Hotel and the Giller Prize for the launch of #BookTalk, an intimate new literary series celebrating Canadian literature in a fresh, community-focused way.

Kicking off the series is André Alexis, celebrated author of Fifteen Dogs and Childhood, in conversation with award-winning journalist Rachel Giese from The Globe and Mail. Set in the cozy, storytelling-rich lobby of the Union Hotel, this live interview invites book lovers into a relaxed evening of meaningful dialogue, exploring Alexis’s latest work, Other Worlds, and the power of CanLit today.

Whether you’re a lifelong reader or new to the scene, #BookTalk offers a modern take on the classic book club — it’s live, local, and literary. Tickets are limited for this exclusive & intmate event!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR, ANDRÉ ALEXIS:

ANDRÉ ALEXIS is the author of Fifteen Dogs, which won the Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and Canada Reads. His internationally acclaimed debut, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. He is the author of Days by Moonlight, which won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and was longlisted for the Giller Prize; The Hidden Keys, which was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award; Pastoral, which was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize; A (a novella); Beauty and Sadness, which was longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature; Asylum; and Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize (Canada and the Caribbean). In 2017, he was awarded the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for fiction. Alexis lives in Toronto.

ABOUT THE MODERATOR, RACHEL GIESE:

RACHEL GIESE is an award-winning journalist and the culture and life editor at The Globe and Mail. Her book Boys: What it Means to Become a Man (HarperCollins Canada and Seal Press) was a Canadian bestseller and won the Writers’ Trust of Canada Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.

Stay tuned for more upcoming #BookTalk sessions!