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February 27, 2020
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Books of the Week - February 27, 2020
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.
Becoming Horses by Disa Wallander
Disa Wallander is a Stockholm-based cartoonist and illustrator and Becoming Horses is her debut graphic with Drawn & Quarterly. It’s a dreamlike, non-narrative comic in which a handful of childlike characters explore an abstract landscape of shapes and feelings that’s rendered with a mixed-media assemblage of drawing, photography, and painting. Like a through-the-looking-glass version of Tove Jansson’s moomin comics, Wallander’s art drifts across the borders of bodies and spaces, art and reality, creating a fuzzy-edged world of constant transformation suffused with a sensibility of wise tenderness.
Isle of Dogs by Minetaro Mochizuki
Minetaro Mochizuki’s manga comics, with their hip characters and fastidious attention to costume and setting (especially in his Chiisakobé series), are often compared to Wes Anderson, so it’s entirely appropriate that he’s created a manga adaptation of Anderson’s most recent film, Isle of Dogs. Originally serialized in Japan’s Weekly Standard manga magazine and translated into French last year, Mochizuki’s Isle of Dogs is finally available to English audiences in a deluxe hardcover edition from Dark Horse.
Minor Feelings: an Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
Cathy Park Hong is the author of three award-winning poetry collections and the poetry editor of The New Republic. Minor Feelings, her first work of non-fiction, is a blend of memoir and cultural criticism that is funny, vulnerable, and provocative in its exploration of the “minor feelings” of shame, suspicion, and melancholy that haunt racialized experience in the United States, particularly at the points where it contradicts the assumptions of mainstream American optimism. This intimate and at times devastating book offers a portrait of a writer searching for a language with which to speak honestly about family, poetry, friendship, and depression.
Lurking: How a Person Became a User by Joanne McNeil
A former editor of venerable art-and-technology site Rhizome, Joanne McNeil has been a leading writer on art, technology, and society for the last decade, with bylines at the New York Times, The Baffler, Dissent, Frieze, Modern Painters, Wired, and elsewhere. Lurking, her first single-author book, is an expansive history of the internet from the perspective of the user. Rather than entrepreneurs, visionaries, and corporations, it offers a glimpse of how our intimate lives have been shaped by the social web in a relatively short period of time, with impacts on our notions of privacy, identity, and community that arrived so incrementally that many of us have forgotten how it happened. McNeil reminds us how the internet came to be the way that it is, and asks us to think about how it could be different.
Reverse Cowgirl by McKenzie Wark
McKenzie Wark is a media theorist best known for books like Gamer Theory (2007) and A Hacker Manifesto (2004), as well as for a string of more recent titles published with Verso Books, including last year’s Capitalism is Dead: Is This Something Worse?. Reverse Cowgirl is perhaps Wark’s most personal book, however: an autofictional, auto-theoretical memoir of her own sexual history and recent transition that chronicles “the author’s failed attempts at being gay and at being straight across the shifting political and media landscapes of the late twentieth century.” Modelled on works such as Paul B. Preciado’s iconic Testo Junkie, Wark’s autoethnography charts a unique trajectory through music, fashion, theory, and fucking
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