Alan Doyle will be in Calgary twice in the next six months, first for Wordfest on Nov. 19, and again on March 22, when he’ll take the stage at the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, a venue he says spoils the audience.

“How cool is that building? My God,” Doyle laughs. “It’s such a thrill to get to play there all the time. Edmonton and Calgary Jubes are like the Massey Hall — there’s a half dozen of them in the country where you go… when you finally get to that stage, you go like, ‘I hope I always get to play here.’”

But on Nov. 19, he takes a much more intimate stage at the Patricia A. Whelan Theatre in the Central Library for a sold-out evening of conversation with bestselling author Nita Prose, who edited his first two books.

“That’s always fun because I never know what’s going to

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