f you follow Canadian literature, even a little, you should know Michael Ondaatje. His style of atmospheric non-linear writing style has been hailed as both unique and revolutionary. Novels like Coming Through Slaughter, In The Skin of a Lion, and The English Patient have cemented him as an undisputed 20th and 21st century master of the written word. Tomorrow, as the initial event of the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts, Ondaatje will be doing a reading, a signing and a meet-and-greet. I would definitely go, but then again I'm a writer.