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March 4, 2020
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Books of the Week - March 4, 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.
Familiar Face by Michael DeForge
DeForge is back with another intellectually unsettling, visually stunning exploration of near-future technodystopia (familiar territory for those lucky enough to get their hands on his 2017 comic Placeholders). In a world where everything is constantly automatically updating, even one’s body, is true connection still possible? DeForge’s narrator, the sole human in the government’s department of complaints, is perhaps best placed to find out.
The Fire Never Goes Out by Noelle Stevenson
Best known for her YA offerings Nimona and The Lumberjanes (not to mention acting as showrunner for She-Ra and the Princesses of Power), Stevenson here presents a collection of personal comics. Charting the big and small moments of living a creative life with equal care, The Fire Never Goes Out invites readers to follow a rising star.
No More Nice Girls by Lauren McKeon
An antidote to 21st century #GirlBoss-style feminism, No More Nice Girls is an attempt to right the balance and leave behind male-centered visions of power in order to build a more equitable world for everyone. A thoughtful examination of the many ways the system is rigged against women and marginalized genders, McKeon has written something for everyone left behind by a Lean In-inspired ethos.
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
MacArthur fellow Natalie Diaz has, with this second poetry collection, chosen desire over erasure, radical love over the continued pain of colonization. With words lush and wanting, she traces the bodies of water, of lovers, of language, and finds in them beauty and tenderness. With the final words “I come good too,” Diaz is declaring herself present, deserving of pleasure, and impossible to ignore.
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
In his new novel, musician and National Book Award-winning author Jame McBride tells the story of the fallout following the shooting of a Brooklyn drug dealer. Interested in as many points of view as possible--that of the victim, the deacon who shoots him at point-blank range, the witnesses, white neighbours, and investigating officers--Deacon King Kong is a deep, meticulous portrait of 1960s New York, richly delivered.
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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)
