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Starting Wednesday, March 10, you can hear from the man who started it all at the AGO. In March, Coach House Press founder and master printer Stan Bevington will begin an ongoing series of weekly conversations at Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario. As part of the AGO's innovative exhibit, 'Canadian Art in the 1960s and 1970s through the lens of Coach House Press,' Bevington will take up residence in the exhibit space every Wednesday night, between 7 and 8 p.m.

Paul Quarrington, the musician and award-winning Toronto author of Whale Music, King Leary and, most recently, The Ravine has died. He was 56.

Quarrington, who was diagnosed with an advanced form of lung cancer last year, passed away on the morning of January 21, 2010.

Quarrington first published with Coach House in the late 70s. Coach House published and printed the Toronto author's first novel, The Service, in 1978.

The 1960s and ’70s were a revolutionary time in Canadian art, when bright young talents took their work in radical new directions. At the centre of it all was Coach House Press.

Sarah B. Hood of the National Post profiled the Coach House in a recent edition of the National Post's Toronto magazine. Read on for a little Coach House history.<!--newline--><!--newline-->House comes with an asterisk<!--newline-->Sarah B. Hood, National Post<!--newline-->Published: Saturday, March 24, 2007<!--newline--><!--newline-->Ignore the cracked pavement: bp Nichol Lane (off Huron Street, south of Bloor) is something special.

by Val Ross, from The Globe & Mail, 28 January 1997

TORONTO - Coach House Press is dead. Long live Coach House Books, a new enterprise born last night in a celebration at Tallulah's Cabaret in Toronto.