LITERARY

Trips to the Other World

Vancouver journalist Peter Darbyshire’s collection of 19 linked short stories, Has the World Ended Yet?, starts with retired superheroes living in a soulless suburbia where everyone gets lost trying to get home. Vancouver psychologist and author Lydia Kwa transports us to seventh-century China, which teems with magic, fox spirits and demons. • Studio 1398, Granville Island • Oct. 21, 5 p.m. • $20,writersfest.bc.ca

‘That 70s Show’

A reading by five revered B.C. poets who all turn 70 this year. Kate Braid, Heidi Greco, Tom Konyves, Hannah Main-van der Kamp, and Susan McCaslin will read representative work from their five decades of writing. This is the inaugural reading of Poetic Justice at their new location. • Alice MacKay Room, Lower Level, Central Branch Public Library, 350 W Georgia St. • Oct. 22, 2 p.m. • PoeticJustice.ca

Jennifer Egan in Converstations with Bill Richardson

Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad discusses her long-awaited first historical novel, Manhattan Beach, in this special event. -In this event, she shares insight into her latest work, and opens up about her esteemed writing career to date. • Norman Rothstein Theatre, 950 West 41st Ave. • Oct. 25, 7:30 p.m. • $15, $24, $26, writersfest.bc.caMusic