Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin and This Is Not A Reading Series launch My Winnipeg (the book companion to his film of the same name) with Attack of the Winnipeg Hockey Moms. Maddin will first introduce clips of his favourite film mothers and then compete in a table hockey tournament with celebrity guests!
Is it possible to write a novel in poetic verse? Can you write in a language that's not yours? Famed experimental author, poet and feminist Nicole Brossard speaks with Margaret Christakos (What Stirs), a fellow cross-genre writer about the relative merits of writing novels and poetry, and what happens when one bleeds into another.
In advance of the book launch for Practical Dreamers: Conversations with Movie Artists (on May 13), editor Mike Hoolboom talked to Pages Books and Magazines. For their new website, he wrote a tribute to one of the many movie-makers he's worked with over the years.<!--newline--><!--newline--><!--newline-->His feet never seemed to quite hit the ground when he entered the room, blown in on some passing whim.
This week, Eye Weekly previewed some of This Is Not A Reading Series' upcoming launches, and included Claudia Dey's Stunt:<!--newline--><!--newline-->'Stunt by Claudia Dey (Coach House, 220 pages, $19.95), in conversation with Michael Winter ... April 23. Playwright Dey turns novelist with the story of a nine-year-old abandoned by her father.
Coach House will, as of February 14, offer free digital downloads with the purchase of any print edition (provided, of course, the book currently exists in e-format). You buy one of our print books, the electronic book is yours for the taking.
Sounds great, but how does it work? One of two ways:
Coach House founder and master printer Stan Bevington is this year’s recipient of the Robert R. Reid lifetime achievement award for excellence in book art. The award is given annually by the Alcuin Society, a non-profit dedicated to preserving and celebrating Canadian contributions to print culture.
Previous Robert R. Reid recipients include former Coach House typesetter and designer Glenn Goluska.
In a two-part interview with Coach House founder and master printer Stan Bevington, Nigel Beale, from the Biblio File podcast, delves into the intriguing combination of factors that inspired Bevington's passion for print culture and took Coach House to the forefront of Canadian book design.
The interview is both a journey through the history of technologies and typefaces, as well as an advice manual for collectors seeking rare pieces of Canadiana.
