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June 28, 2019
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Books of the Week - June 28, 2019
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.
Angola Janga by Marcelo D’salete
Eisner winning comic artist Marcelo D’salete is back, this time telling the thrilling story of Angola Janga, the iconic community of runaway slaves that fiercely opposed Dutch and Portuguese colonial powers in Brazil for over a hundred years. Fugitives, raids, and power struggles populate the pages of this essential history, beautifully told.
Gates of Plasma by Carlos Gonzalez
In this unlikeliest of romances, a semi-truck driver meets a woman with mysterious ear secretions while participating in a pharmaceutical study. Together, they must brave a cult-like inner circle dabbling in untested drugs, plastic surgery, and the theatre. A dreamy, creepy tale, Gates of Plasma does credit to Gonzalez’s previous body of work, a mainstay in the underground comics and music scenes.
The Porpoise by Mark Haddon
From the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time comes a retelling of the legend of Antiochus and Appolinus of Tyre. A fierce, ambitious follow up to his previous celebrated novel, it is a tale of female agency stolen, of voyages both mythic and real, of the importance of storytelling.
I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum
Pulitzer prize-winning writer Emily Nussbaum has been the New Yorker’s resident TV critic since 2011 (and, before that, for New York magazine). In this collection of essays and reviews (including two previously-unpublished pieces), Nussbaum presents nothing less than a new way of looking at television, intimately attuned to the ins and outs of the so-called “Golden Age” of prestige TV in the era of streaming services.
How Could She by Lauren Mechling
Lauren Mechling is a prolific reporter and columnist who has written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and Vogue. Her debut novel is a savagely funny story of female friendship set inside the catty, cutthroat world of New York media, hopping from rooftop parties to downtown art galleries as its protagonists navigate the world of influencers while trying to juggle life as writers, mothers, and wives.
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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)
