{"id":591,"date":"2013-05-07T16:22:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T16:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stoneskin.wpengine.com\/?p=591"},"modified":"2013-05-08T14:44:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T14:44:28","slug":"lion-and-the-aardvark-toronto-launch-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/lion-and-the-aardvark-toronto-launch-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Lion and the Aardvark Toronto Launch Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; display: inline; float: left\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-JxCOFBX9Jho\/T8jq5k4t8XI\/AAAAAAAAAZc\/f1iIGx5DvXk\/s151\/StoneSkin.jpg \" width=\"101\" height=\"100\">With offices in London and writers from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland and arguably France, <a href=\"http:\/\/stoneskin.wpengine.com\/\">Stone Skin Press<\/a> is a decidedly post-national operation. Yet since Creative Director Robin D. Laws calls Hogtown home, a nice swath of <em>The Lion and the Aardvark<\/em>\u2019s 70 contributors happen to reside in the Greater Toronto Area. Thanks to the good offices of the Rowers Pub Reading Series, we\u2019ll be celebrating that fact on Tuesday May 14th at 8pm, in the cozy, craft beer loving confines of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.victorycafe.ca\/home\/\">Victory Caf\u00e9<\/a> in Mirvish Village (<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=Victory+Cafe,+Markham+Street,+Toronto,+ON,+Canada&amp;hl=en&amp;sll=43.660604,-79.409683&amp;sspn=0.025117,0.038581&amp;oq=victory+cafe+m&amp;t=h&amp;hq=Victory+Cafe,&amp;hnear=Markham+St,+Toronto,+Ontario,+Canada&amp;z=16\">Bloor \/ Bathurst<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-y9B1Nv206lo\/UYkbJ__nvoI\/AAAAAAAADhk\/TPeVaug44AM\/w487-h742-no\/ssp-launch-poster-3-copy2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Scheduled to read are Ann Ewan, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, Laura Lush, Julie McArthur, Daniel Perry, Ursula Pflug, Richard Scarsbrook, Heather Wood, Halli Villegas, and Jim Zub. Buy a copy and get it signed by the aforementioned, plus interior illustrator Rachel Kahn and your humble editor. <\/p>\n<p>In <em>The Lion and the Aardvark,<\/em> 70 writers from across the creative spectrum bring their modern sensibilities to the classic fable format. Zombies, dog-men and robot wasps mingle with cats, coyotes and cockroaches. Parables ranging from the punchy to the evocative, the wry to the disturbing, explore eternal human foibles, as displaced onto lemmings, trout, and racing cars. But beware\u2014 in these terse explorations of desire, envy, and power, certitude isn\u2019t always as clear as it looks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Ed Greenwood has had to drop out to attend to a family medical matter. He&#8217;ll be there in spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With offices in London and writers from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland and arguably France, Stone Skin Press is a decidedly post-national operation. Yet since Creative Director Robin D. Laws calls Hogtown home, a nice swath of The Lion<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/lion-and-the-aardvark-toronto-launch-event\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,26],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-events","tag-the-lion-and-the-aardvark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}