"I don't want a niche – I want an empire!" – Michael Wex, Globe and Mail
Wex will be appearing at the new McNally Robinson store in Toronto on Monday 26th October 2009.
Knopf Canada are doing a great job getting him into stores across Canada, organizing a book launch in conjunction with Pages book store and setting up radio and newspaper interviews.
If you live in Toronto and can get to the recently opened McNally Robinson book store at Don Mills and Lawrence for 7pm on Monday... 
Please note that this competition is only open to Canadian residents (excluding Quebec) - sorry!
Random House, the publishers of the Canadian version of How to Be a Mentsh are running a competition through Experience Toronto - if you're a Canadian resident (excluding Quebec) you could win one of two copies of Wex's new book, out next week.
The competition is open until October 6th, so enter now. If you... 
Wex has just been confirmed for the Toronto Jewish Book Fair.
At 8pm on Thursday 29th October he will be appearing at the Lipa Green Centre for Jewish Community Services, 4600 Bathurst Street in Toronto to give a lecture on his new book How to Be a Mentsh (and Not a Shmuck) which is published next week. There will also be a book signing after the event.
Make sure you check out our events page to see where... 
Michael Wex onstage at Carnegie Hall. Photos with the kind permission of Arnie Goodman.
In June Wex was lucky enough to be invited to perform at Theodore Bikel's 85th birthday celebration at Carnegie Hall.
Needless to say he was thrilled - Theo and Wex have been friends ever since Theo came to a lecture Wex gaveat UCLA, after which they taught together at Klezkanada.
This was the second time Wex appeared... 
We've just added the Autumn dates for Wex's book tour of How to Be a Mentsh care of the Jewish Book Council.
If you're in Florida, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland or Nevada this is good news for you! Wex has added eight dates to his Fall tour and he will be coming to a Jewish Book Fair near you!
Other events are taking place care of our publisher - make sure you visit the events page of the... 