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May 4, 2019
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Books of the Week - May 4th
In the weekly Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Books of the Week, the Montreal bookstore recommends several new works of fiction, art books, periodicals, and comics.
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly is one of Montreal's premiere independent bookstores.
Clyde Fans by Seth
This 20-years-in-the-making body of work by Canadian cartoonist Seth has finally found its ultimate material form: a beautiful box set containing the 500 pages of the Clyde Fans series, originally developed through his Palookaville comics series. Seth's graphic novel takes us in a wide emotional journey of nostalgia, solitude, isolation, success and failure, work, one's attitude towards one's life and one's responsibilities.
This Place: 150 Years Retold forward by Alicia Elliott
Long last, an extraordinary comic collection representing a broad range of Indigenous voices and recounting Indigenous stories of resistance, resilience, violence, and belief. With a beautiful forward by Alicia Elliott, author of the recently released, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, these accounts reject Canada’s national story, generously shining a light on experiences long obscured illustrated by Indigenous artists.
Is This How You See Me: a Locas story by Jaime Hernandez
As a much anticipated follow-up to Hernandez’ award winning graphic novel The Love Bunglers, this comic follows two middle-aged best friends as they revisit the formative punk scene of their youth. Using the past to comment on the present in this installment, Hernandez adds to his decades-in-the-making Love & Rockets world, replete with characters, relationships, heartbreak, and regrets that ring so true and feel so right.
Picture by Lillian Ross
As a staff writer for the New Yorker for seven decades, Lillian Ross documented with keen observation and attention. In this NYRB re-issue, Ross tracked the making of a movie: John Huston’s The Red Badge of Courage in 1951. We read about how movie politics can quickly turn a film from a promising project into a disastrous flop with eavesdropping gossip and insider know-how.
Moccasin Square Gardens by Richard Van Camp
Considered one of Canada’s greatest living oral storytellers, Richard Van Camp brings us a new short story collection that portrays the effects of colonialism in wildly different narratives. The futuristic stories lean towards horror and darkness, while still maintaining fresh humour and humanity.
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other Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Books of the Week
Antiheroines (interviews with up and coming female comics artists)
Atomic Books Comics Preview (weekly new comics and graphic novel highlights)
Book Notes (authors create music playlists for their book)
guest book reviews
musician/author interviews
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
Short Cuts (writers pair a song with their short story or essay)
WORD Bookstores Books of the Week (weekly new book highlights)
