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SUMMARY:West Island book launch
DESCRIPTION:West Island launch of veteran CJAD broadcaster Tommy Schnurmacher’s new memoir Makeup Tips from Auschwitz. How Vanity Saved My Mother’s Life.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/west-island-book-launch/
LOCATION:Chapters Pointe Claire\, 6321 autoroute Transcanadienne\, Pointe Claire\, Quebec\, H9R 5A5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191113T180000
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SUMMARY:Book signing
DESCRIPTION:Vteran CJAD broadcaster Tommy Schnurmacher will be signing copies of his new memoir Makeup Tips from Auschwitz. How Vanity Saved My Mother’s Life which tells the story of his Jewish mom got two world-famous Nazis to save her life and the powerful impact that had on their relationship.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-signing/
LOCATION:Indigo\, Place Montreal Trust\, 1500 McGill College Ave\, Montréal\, Quebec\, H3A 3J5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191113T190000
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SUMMARY:Adèle Barclay + Klara du Plessis Double Launch w/guest Tess Liem
DESCRIPTION:Please join us to celebrate the publication of Adèle Barclay’s second book of poetry Renaissance Normcore and Klara Du Plessis’ chapbook of essays unfurl with special guest Tess Liem. \nRENAISSANCE NORMCORE belts like a classically trained riot grrrl\, composing catchy tunes in the key of fear and desire. Building on the dreamy emotional landscapes she plumbed in If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You\, Barclay navigates even sharper peaks and valleys in her second collection to examine the links between intimacy and power. Tracking the paradoxical impulses of anguish and joy that underpin daily life in our hostile neoliberal climate\, these poems are both abject and sweet as they repurpose loss into life and test the bounds of how much a poem can hold. \nUNFURL: four essays. \n//////////////////////////////// \nADÈLE BARCLAY is the author of If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You\, which won the 2017 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Renaissance Normcore is her second collection and was named a book to look out for by CBC and 49th Shelf. She is the recipient of the 2016 Lit POP Award for Poetry and The Walrus’ 2016 Readers’ Choice Award for Poetry and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poems have appeared in Vallum\, Cosmonauts Avenue\, Room Magazine\, The Puritan\, Heavy Feather Review\, glitterMOB\, The Fiddlehead and elsewhere. She is Arc Magazine’s 2018-19 Poet in Residence and an editor at Rahila’s Ghost Press. \nKLARA DU PLESSIS is a South African Canadian poet residing in Montreal. Her debut collection Ekke—winner of the 2019 Pat Lowther Memorial Award and shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award—was released from Palimpsest Press; and her Anstruther chapbook\, Wax Lyrical\,was shortlisted for the 2016 bpNichol Chapbook Award. Klara is a PhD English Literature student at Concordia University\, and currently expanding her curatorial practice to include experimental Deep Curation poetry reading events. \nTESS LIEM is a queer writer living in Montreal\, Tiotia:ke—unceded Haudenosaunee and Mohawk territories. Her writing has appeared in Plenitude\, Room Magazine\, PRISM\, and elsewhere. Her debut collection Obits. was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award and recently won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for 2019.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/adele-barclay-klara-du-plessis-double-launch-w-guest-tess-liem/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191114T190000
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SUMMARY:Book launch: Dreamers and Misfits of Montclair by Mark Paterson\, hosted by Mike Paterson
DESCRIPTION:Please join us to celebrate the launch of Mark Paterson’s new short story collection about the suburbs\, Dreamers and Misfits of Montclair. \nThe evening will be hosted by Montreal comic Mike Paterson.\nSpecial guest appearance by hockey broadcasting expert “Nick Irvin.” \nAdmission is free and refreshments will be served. Enter by the library’s side entrance at 4023 Tupper Street (corner Atwater). Please note that the auditorium is located on the library’s second floor and is\, for the time being\, only accessible by stairs. \nABOUT THE BOOK \nTim walks down the main street of town dressed in a gorilla costume. Merry finds diversion and solace in Adam and the Ants lyrics\, television show novelizations\, and an obsession with her blind neighbour. Alex and John\, teenage brothers living under the control of overprotective parents\, discover a window onto the outside world in a radio show hosted by a psychic. \nWelcome to Montclair\, a fictional yet familiar suburb of Montreal. At the heart of this collection is the restless struggle for individuality on the outskirts of the big city. With a warm\, funny\, and nuanced voice\, and flitting in time between the 1980s\, 1990s\, and today\, Dreamers and Misfits of Montclair explores suburbia’s little wild spaces\, hidden away in overgrown fields behind strip malls\, in dark crawlspaces beneath concrete schoolyard staircases\, and in the hearts and minds of its inhabitants. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nMark Paterson is the author of the short story collections Dreamers and Misfits of Montclair\, A Finely Tuned Apathy Machine\, and Other People’s Showers\, all from Exile Editions. His work has won the 3Macs carte blanche Prize\, Geist magazine’s Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest\, and the Atwater Library’s 150 Words for 150 Years contest. Most recently\, his story “My Uncle\, My Barbecue Chicken Deliveryman” was a finalist for the 2018 Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Competition. \nMark was born in northern California in 1971 and spent his childhood in Rosemere\, a North Shore suburb of Montreal. His teenage years were days of wandering\, living between 1983 and 1987 in Noblesville\, Indiana; suburban Boston; and Santa Cruz\, California. Just prior to his final year of high school\, he returned to the Montreal area where he has lived ever since\, currently in the town of Lorraine.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-dreamers-and-misfits-of-montclair-by-mark-paterson-hosted-by-mike-paterson/
LOCATION:Atwater Library Auditorium\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, 2nd floor\, Westmount\, QC
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191115T190000
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SUMMARY:Conundrum Press Launch Spectacular!
DESCRIPTION:Join artists Cole Pauls\, Kris Bertin\, Alexander Forbes\, Sherwin Tjia\, and Howard Chackowicz as we celebrate the launch of their newest graphic novels. This Conundrum Press extravaganza will include presentations and a chance to meet and mingle with the artists. \nPLUMMET by Sherwin Tjia\nTake the plunge into a high-flying and hypnotic blend of heaven\, hell\, and high water\nWhen Amelia “Mel” Eichenwald wakes up one morning\, she finds herself in endless freefall towards an Earth that is no longer there\, surrounded by the junk of human existence. From high heels to houses\, billions of random items drop alongside her like fallout from an exploded mall.\nShe soon discovers she’s not alone. Others have been similarly plucked out of their lives and dropped off in mid-air. But why? For what purpose? And more importantly—and urgently—what is she going to eat? Where can she safely sleep?\nPlummet follows Mel as she attempts to survive\, find allies\, and negotiating the balance between becoming prey or predator. What makes us human — and what keeps us human —when gravity is all there is? How do you take a stand when there is literally no place to sit? Plummet will propel readers into a new dimension that’s part fable\, part post-apocalyptic nightmare.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/conundrum-press-launch-spectacular/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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