Michael Ondaatje at the Bloor Street Viaduct during the launch of Project Bookmark Canada. Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion is now considered an iconic piece of Toronto literature, but, he said, ?I remember being told when I began to write that it was commercial suicide to set a thriller in Toronto or any Canadian city, as opposed to New York or Miami or Kiev. Even Delhi, they said, was better than Toronto!?
Photo by Lisa Sakulensky.