Well, not really. But the Toronto novelist and poet did launch her new book of poems, Songs for the Dancing Chicken (which is partly based on the work of movie director Werner Herzog, who did eat his shoe in a famous short film), with a This Is Not a Reading Series event at the Gladstone Hotel. (Photos by Quill & Quire.)

Schultz signs copies of her new books, while a Pages Books & Magazines bookseller looks on.

Poet Paul Vermeersch gets a little TLC from his editor, ECW’s Michael Holmes.

ECW’s David Caron and Coach House editor Alana Wilcox.

Wilcox and ECW owner Jack David. (In this case, ECW stands for “Excellent Cookies, What?”)

Author Jessica Westhead with Coach House Books’ Christina Palassio.

We have seen this kind of madness at a book launch before: novelist and film critic Jason Anderson interviews Schultz under the baleful glare of Klaus Kinski (in a scene from Aguirre, the Wrath of God).