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October 26, 2019
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Books of the Week - October 26, 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.
The Death of the Master by AUTHOR
The latest offbeat, surreally abstract comic from Patrick Kyle is one of the last from our Toronto colleagues at Koyama Press, which is sadly closing up shop soon. The Death of the Master is a typically wild venture into the Kyle-o-verse, in which a gang of ninja-turtle-like factory workers worship a cryptic master, whose death (Or has he really died? Can he ever die?) wreaks havoc in their strange world. Hijinx ensue!
Things to Do Instead of Killing Yourself by Tara Booth and Jon-Michael Frank
This book, co-written by poet, comic artist, and funnyman Jon-Michael Frank and Portland-based comic artist Tara Booth, is a sincere “way for us to work through our own experiences with depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation,” but it’s also a weird and witty catalogue of things you could possibly be doing with your life, while you have one. Booth and Frank’s absurd and sometimes lewd drawings accompany instructions like “make a bust of yourself, bathe and feed it,” and “larp alone.” Not killing yourself has never been so much fun!
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker Prize-winning Girl, Woman, Other is sold out almost everywhere across Canada...but we’ve got a limited supply! Come get a copy (while you can!) of this vivid portrait of contemporary Britain, a heartbreaking, witty, multi-vocal novel that braids the present day with the legacy of colonialism in Africa and the Caribbean. Reprint coming in early November!
Find Me by André Aciman
Call Me By Your Name made André Aciman a household name even before it was made into the Academy Award-winning film starring Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer. In this follow-up, Elio’s father Samuel has a chance encounter on a train between Florence and Rome that upends his life forever. Later, Elio moves to Paris where he too has a consequential affair. Oliver, a New England professor, married with children, contemplates a return trip across the Atlantic. Another anatomy of love and passion2 from a master of sensibility!
All This Could be Yours by Jami Attenberg
All This Could be Yours by Jami Attenberg
New Orleans-based Jami Attenberg is the bestselling author of seven books of fiction, including The Middlesteins. Her latest novel, All This Could Be Yours is a dive into fractured family dynamics that also pays tribute to the unseen side of her home city. A timely, touching investigation of what keeps people together in a dark world.
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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)
