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SUMMARY:Gail Scott Launches Heroine with host Geneviève Robichaud
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Montreal launch of the reissue of Gail Scott’s Heroine\, hosted by Geneviève Robichaud\, and a Q&A with the author! \nHEROINE\nA classic feminist novel\, resonating in a world of increasing radicalization\, featuring a new foreword by Eileen MylesIt’s October\, 1980\, the 10th anniversary of the October Crisis\, when a radical Quebec group’s actions led to the invocation of the War Measures Act. In a bathtub in a rooming house in Montreal in 1980\, a woman tries to imagine a new life for herself: a life after a passionate affair with a man while falling for a woman\, a life that makes sense after her deep involvement in far left politics during the turbulent ?70s of Quebec\, a life whose form she knows can only be grasped as she speaks it. A new\, revised edition of a seminal work of edgy\, experimental feminism. With a foreword by Eileen Myles. \nGAIL SCOTT is an experimental novelist. The Obituary (New York\, Nightboat\, 2012; Coach House: 2010)\, a ghost story set in a Montréal triplex\, was a 2011 finalist for Le Grand Prix du Livre de la Ville de Montréal. Other novels include My Paris (Dalkey Archive)\, about a sad diarist in conversation with Gertrude Stein and Walter Benjamin in late 20th Paris\, Main Brides and Heroine.Spare Parts Plus 2 is a collection of stories and manifestoes. Essays are collected in Spaces Like Stairs and la théorie\, un dimanche. (translated as Sunday Theory from Belladonna\, NY\, 2013). Scott’s translation of Michael Delisle’s Le Déasarroi du matelot was shortlisted for the Governor General’s award [2001]. Scott co-founded the critical French-language journal Spirale(Montréal)\, and is co-editor of the New Narrative anthology: Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative (Toronto: Coach House\, 2004). She is currently completing a memoir based in Lower Manhattan during the early Obama years.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/gail-scott-launches-heroine-with-host-genevieve-robichaud/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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SUMMARY:Lynda Barry + Chris Ware in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Librairie Drawn & Quarterly presents \nLYNDA BARRY + CHRIS WARE in conversation \nTickets:\nBook + Ticket Combo: Rusty Brown: $46.95+tx\n*Includes 1 copy of Rusty Brown by Chris Ware + 1 General Admission (book to be received at the event) \nBook + Ticket Combo : Making Comics $25.95+tx\n*Includes 1 copy of Making Comics by Lynda Barry + 1 General Admission(book to be received at the event) \nGeneral Admission : $10+tx \n(Présentation en anglais) \nABOUT THE AUTHORS \nLYNDA BARRY has worked as a painter\, cartoonist\, writer\, illustrator\, playwright\, editor\, commentator\, and teacher. She is the inimitable creator behind the seminal comic strip Ernie Pook’s Comeek\, and author of The Freddie Stories\,One! Hundred! Demons!\, The! Greatest! of! Marlys!\, Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel\, Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies!\, and The Good Times are Killing Me\, which was adapted as an off-Broadway play and won the Washington State Governor’s Award. Barry has written three bestselling and acclaimed creative how-to graphic novels for D+Q: the Eisner Award-winning What It Is\, and Picture This\, and Syllabus: Notes from an accidental professor. \nCHRIS WARE is widely acknowledged as the most gifted and beloved cartoonist of his generation by both his mother and seven-year-old daughter. His J immy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth won the Guardian First Book Award and was listed as one of the 100 Best Books of the Decade by the London Times in 2009. An irregular contributor to This American Life and The New Yorker (where some of the pages of this book first appeared) his original drawings have been exhibited in the Whitney Biennial\, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago\, and in piles behind his work table in Oak Park\, Illinois. \nABOUT THE BOOKS\nMAKING COMICS by Lynda Barry \nMaking Comics is the follow-up to Barry’s bestselling Syllabus\, and this time she shares all her comics-making exercises. In a new hand-drawn syllabus detailing her creative curriculum\, Barry has students drawing themselves as monsters and superheroes\, convincing students who think they can’t draw that they can\, and\, most important\, encouraging them to understand that a daily journal can be anything so long as it is hand drawn. \nBarry teaches all students and believes everyone and anyone can be creative. At the core of Making Comics is her certainty that creativity is vital to processing the world around us. \nRUSTY BROWN by Chris Ware\nA major graphic novel event more than 16 years in progress: part one of the ongoing bifurcated masterwork from the brilliant and beloved author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories. \nRusty Brown is a fully interactive\, full-color articulation of the time-space interrelationships of three complete consciousnesses in the first half of a single midwestern American day and the tiny piece of human grit about which they involuntarily orbit. A sprawling\, special snowflake accumulation of the biggest themes and the smallest moments of life\, Rusty Brown literately and literally aims at nothing less than the coalescence of one half of all of existence into a single museum-quality picture story\, expertly arranged to present the most convincingly ineffable and empathetic illusion of experience for both life-curious readers and traditional fans of standard reality. From childhood to old age\, no frozen plotline is left unthawed in the entangled stories of a child who awakens without superpowers\, a teen who matures into a paternal despot\, a father who stores his emotional regrets on the surface of Mars and a late-middle-aged woman who seeks the love of only one other person on planet Earth.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/lynda-barry-chris-ware-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Rialto Theatre\, 5723 Av du Parc\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2V 4G9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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SUMMARY:QC Fiction and Book*hug double Launch
DESCRIPTION:A Double Book Launch with QC Fiction\, an imprint of Baraka Books\, and Book*hug – featuring a conversation with Éric Mathieu\, author of The Little Fox of Mayerville (QC Fiction) and translator Peter McCambridge\, and the launch of Drama Queens by Vickie Gendreau\, translated by Aimee Wall (Book*hug). \nTHE LITTLE FOX OF MAYERVILLE\nÉmile Claudel is no ordinary child. Only months after his birth\, following the liberation of France in 1945\, he can already chatter away in several languages\, much to his mother’s frustration. Nicknamed the Little Fox for his appearance\, Émile is born into a loveless home\, where patience is in short supply. Abandoned by his family\, he struggles to find a place in society. This deftly written coming-of-age novel follows Émile on his journey toward adulthood\, as his country moves away from austere conservatism and embraces the counterculture of the 1960s. \nDRAMA QUEENS\nIn 2012\, Vickie Gendreau was diagnosed with a brain tumour and wrote a book narrating her own death. Testament could have been Gendreau’s first and only novel\, but she kept writing\, furiously\, until the very end.\nPublished posthumously after Gendreau’s death in 2013 at age 24\, Drama Queens continues her exploration of illness and death that began in Testament\, but with even greater urgency and audacity. In her singular voice\, Gendreau mixes genres and forms\, moving from art installations to fantastical little films to poetry\, returning again and again to a deeply raw and unflinching narrative of her increasingly difficult days.\nWith rage\, dark humour\, and boundless spirit and imagination\, Drama Queens\, translated by Aimee Wall\, records the daily life of a young woman living with a failing body\, the end in sight\, and still so much to say.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/qc-fiction-and-bookhug-double-launch/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
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