Free Speech: a West End reading series
with Maggie Helwig, Sue Sinclair and Aaron Eves
Monday, March 30, 2009
Tinto Coffee House, 89 Roncesvalles Ave
Toronto, ON
7:30 p.m.
Pwyc
The New York Times style magazine profiles the 'hive of artsy industry' shaped by indie inns/venues The Gladstone Hotel and The Drake Hotel in Toronto's Parkdale neighbourhood. Coach House makes an appearance as the press that elaborated the idea of 'Torontopia' in the uTOpia series:
Claudia Dey discusses her setting of Stunt in Toronto's Parkdale neighbourhood, 'a zone in flux' within 'a city of the surreal,' on www.cbc.ca/arts.
The interview also ranges over other phenomena of Dey's novel: its archival properties, the character Eugenia's 'process of alchemising grief' and questions of identity and belonging.
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.
