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Saturday, 13 May 2017
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly is pleased to host the release of Damon Krukowski's latest book, The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World, published by The New Press. Krukowski will be in conversation with local professor Jonathan Sterne. Having made his name in the late 1980s as a member of the indie band Galaxie 500, Damon Krukowski has watched cultural life lurch from analog to digital. And as an artist who has weathered the transition, he has challenging, urgent questions for both creators and consumers about what we have thrown away in the process: Are our devices leaving us lost in our own headspace even as they pinpoint our location? Does the long reach of digital communication come at the sacrifice of our ability to gauge social distance? Do streaming media discourage us from listening closely? Are we hearing each other fully in this new environment? Rather than simply rejecting the digital disruption of cultural life, Krukowski uses the sound engineer’s distinction of signal and noise to reexamine what we have lost as a technological culture, looking carefully at what was valuable in the analog realm so we can hold onto it. Taking a set of experiences from the production and consumption of music that have changed since the analog era – the disorientation of headphones, flattening of the voice, silence of media, loudness of mastering, and manipulation of time – as a basis for a broader exploration of contemporary culture, Krukowski gives us a brilliant meditation and guide to keeping our heads amid the digital flux. Think of it as plugging in without tuning out. The event is FREE, and will take place in store at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (211 Bernard West) from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Accessibility information: -The bathroom is gender neutral -The space is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible (details: two steps at the main door, we would be happy to help you lift a wheelchair and make space in the corridor) - It is not a sober space, our events sometimes offer alcohol.
Friday, 12 May 2017
Join us on Friday, May 12th at 7:00 pm for the launch of Coach House Books' spring poetry lineup!
Shane Rhodes will read from his vital collection of poetry, DEAD WHITE MEN, which uses texts from history's most notorious colonizers to turns ideas of exploration, discovery, finding and keeping back upon themselves.
Linda Besner will read from FEEL HAPPIER IN NINE SECONDS, her new collection built around a series of brilliantly illuminated poems patterned on a scientific study of synaesthesia and Fisher Price refrigerator magnets.
Sarah Pinder will read from her second book of poetry with Coach House, COMMON PLACE a long poem that explores the stories of shifting, resilient bodies and landscapes bound by systems of capital and power
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Join us on Tuesday, May 9th at 7:00 pm as Véhicule Press launches their latest fiction and poetry titles. We're celebrating the publications of the latest novels from Véhicule's Esplanade Books imprint, as well as the latest poetry collections from their Signal Editions imprint.
From Esplanade Books:
- Tumbleweed, by Josip Novakovich
- Sun of a Distant Land, by David Bouchet (translated by Claire Holden Rothman)
- A Three-Tiered Pastel Dream, by Leslie Trites
From Signal Editions:
- Table Manners, by Catriona Wright
- Siren, by Kateri Lanthier
The evening will be hosted by Esplanade Books editor Dimitri Nasrallah.
Monday, 8 May 2017
Are you as excited as we are about the new edition of Lynda Barry's One! Hundred! Demons!? We hope so!
Reissued in beautiful hardcover by Drawn & Quarterly, Barry's seminal coming of age story, told in seventeen vignettes, remains some of her best work. In this master storyteller's deft hands, demons are confronted and the moments that haunt us -- heartaches, embarrassments, childhood memories -- explored.
Inspired by a 16th century Zen monk's painting of demons chasing each other down a long scroll, Barry's stories flow into one another, painting the portrait of a life well examined, an introspection as precise and beautiful as the collages founds scattered throughout the pages.
Call it a work of art, call it a tour de force, call it (as Barry herself does) "autobiofictionalography." Whatever it is, it's pure magic.
Thursday, 4 May 2017
This Saturday, May 6th, is Free Comic Book Day! In addition to hosting prolific, award-winning children's author Elise Gravel at our store for an all-day book signing, we will also have...yes, FREE COMICS! Here's a sneak peek of what will be available from our friends at Nobrow.
Nobrow's FCBD comic features a peek at the next adventure of Luke Pearson's Hilda, who is coming soon to Netflix in her own show!
The comic included in this booklet picks up where Hilda and the Stone Forest left off.
Also included is a glimpse at Jen Lee's forthcoming graphic novel, Garbage Night, in which juvenile animals scrape to survive in a town abandoned by humans, while still holding out hope for the return of the mythical Garbage Night. It'll be out from Nobrow in June!
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly 10th Anniversary Reading Series
Zadie Smith & Madeleine Thien
in Conversation for
SWING TIME
Rialto Theatre, 5723 Av du Parc
Date: TBD
We are very sorry to announce that due to an emergency in Zadie Smith’s family our scheduled event with Ms. Smith on the 4th of May 2017 will be rescheduled for Fall 2017. The date is yet to be determined. We apologize for the inconvenience and will honour any tickets already purchased for the fall date. If you have purchased tickets and know that you will not be able to attend in the fall we will be happy to a offer you a refund (please note: if you received the ticket free with book purchase you may not request a refund for the free ticket).
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and hope to see you in the Fall. Our thoughts are with Ms. Smith and her family.
Tuesday, 2 May 2017
It's finally here, that most wonderful day of the year, Free Comic Book Day! Every year on the first Saturday in May comic book lovers unite to revel in mountains of free comics and here at Librairie D+Q we throw down with cookies and juice!
To add to our excitement, there will be an extra special signing by Elise Gravel from 1:00-2:00 pm to kick off her If Found... tour! D+Q's limited edition FCBD offering this year includes a split preview of Guy Delisle's Hostage and the forthcoming Poppies of Iraq by Bridgette Finkdaly and Lewis Trondheim PLUS the Colorful Monsters comic that features four beloved series from the Enfant imprint: new Kitaro, Moomin, Anna and Froga, and Gravel's sketchbook!
The day starts at 10:00 am - don't miss this!
Monday, 1 May 2017
Each month, Librairie Drawn & Quarterly invites a local author or artist to curate a shelf in the store. This May, we bring you recommendations from Elise Gravel!
Elise Gravel is a Governor-General's award-winning children’s book author and cartoonist with over thirty children’s books to her name. Her next book, If Found… which will be published by Drawn & Quarterly on June 6th, offers readers a sneak peek into her sketchbook where colorful monsters, imaginary friends, and grumpy things reign supreme. And on Saturday, May 6th, she'll be signing books at our in-store Kids' Day event!
All of Elise's picks will be 15% off for the month of May. Here’s a sneak peek of what you’ll find on her shelf:
What I'd Say to Martians by Jack Handey
One of the funniest books I've read in my life. Still laughing out loud just thinking about it.
Hark, a Vagrant! by Kate Beaton
What can I say? I want to be Kate Beaton when I grow up. Her jokes are perfect; she seems to know basically everything about everything.
Super Mutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki
It took me ten pages to get comfy, but by then I was hooked. I could live in this universe for a thousand more pages. Tamaki's style seems so organic and fluid that it feels like we're just watching her dream.
Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
This is the first book I read in English as a young woman, and it changed my life. I'm waiting for my daughters to be old enough and I'll give them my old, battered copy as a coming-of-age present.
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
I had to put a Vonnegut book in this list, but really it could have been any of them. I'm in love with this guy's mind.
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The story of this girl raised by extremely incompetent parents blew my mind. How did she survive this; how is that level of resilience even possible? It toned down my own insecurities as a mother, which is always a good thing.
Anna and Froga (any title) by Anouk Ricard
I love Anna & Froga's sassy humour, simple design and absurd tone; I'd like to hang out with her and her friends from time to time.
This is Paris by M. Sasek
All of Sasek's books are such an inspiration to me as an author. The way he talks to his readers as though he was there with them visiting Paris, holding them by the hand, with respect and warmth, is the way I want to talk to kids through my own books.
Ma Maison by Delphine Durand
This book might be my very favorite picture book ever. It's impossible to describe; let's just say your kids will read it over and over, from beginning to end end from end to beginning, and find new jokes and fun stuff every time.
Sunday, 30 April 2017
Join cartoonist and illustrator Matt Forsythe on Sunday, April 30th at 12:00 noon as he presents his stunning new book The Gold Leaf. Written by educator Kirsten Hall, The Gold Leaf presents a tale of selfishness, and forgiveness. When the animals of the forest discover a beautiful golden leaf, all want it for themselves. During the struggle, the leaf is destroyed—leaving the animals wonder: Will we ever again see such a leaf?
**Children's activity and kid friendly refreshments available!
Saturday, 29 April 2017
Join Barbara Gowdy on Saturday April 29th at 7:00 pm as she sits down with Kathleen Winter to talk about her latest book, Little Sister, in which she explores the astonishing power of empathy, the question of where we end and others begin, and the fierce bonds of motherhood and sisterhood.
BARBARA GOWDY is the author of seven books, including Helpless, The Romantic, The White Bone, Mister Sandman, We So Seldom Look on Love and Falling Angels, all of which have been met with widespread international acclaim and critical praise. She has been a finalist three times for the Governor General’s Award and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and twice for the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 1996, she received the Marian Engel Award and in 2008 the Trillium Book Award. A Member of the Order of Canada and a Guggenheim Fellow, Barbara Gowdy lives in Toronto.
Authors for Indies is an annual event held in independent bookstores all across Canada where authors show their appreciation for indie bookstores (and we for our authors!) by offering special services of their choice to the store for an afternoon. This year are we are excited to have writers/artists Samuel Cantin, Cathon, Jacob Wren, and Sandra Huber (see their bios below!).
SCHEDULE
12-3pm : Samuel Cantin + Cathon
3-6 pm : Sandra Huber + Jacob Wren
7pm : Barbara Gowdy in Conversation with Kathleen Winter
Samuel and Cathon will be offering live drawings and doodles and taking over our social media, Sandra will be offering Tarot readings (and will also be
happy to chat about all different forms of altered states like sleep and
mediumship) and Jacob will take over the stage and show
off his impressive music knowledge and DJ skills. Ask them to recommend their favourite books!
So join us on the 29th for this cool campaign in support of local independent booksellers! Mark the date and don't forget that evening we'll be hosting Barbara Gowdy in conversation with Kathleen Winter at 7pm!! It'll be a fun day for sure.
Meet this year's artists!
Jacob Wren is a writer and maker of eccentric performances born in Jerusalem in 1971.
His published titles include Rich and Poor, Polyamorous Love Song, Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed. Families Are Formed Through Copulation, and Unrehearsed Beauty.
As co-artistic director of Montreal-based interdisciplinary group PME-ART he has co-created En français comme en anglais, it's easy to criticize (1998), Unrehearsed Beauty / Le génie des autres (2002), La famille se crée en copulant (2005) and the ongoing HOSPITALITÉ / HOSPITALITY series: 1: The Title Is Constantly Changing (2007), 2: Gradually This Overview (2010), 3: Individualism Was A Mistake (2008) and 5: The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information (2011).
He frequently writes about contemporary art. In 2007 he was invited to Berlin by Sophiensaele to adapt and direct Wolfgang Koeppen's 1954 novel Der Tod in Rom and in 2008 he was commissioned by Campo in Ghent to co-create (with Pieter De Buysser) An Anthology of Optimism. He is regularly invited in Europe and Asia.
Cathon quitte la ville de Québec en 2010 pour s’installer à Montréal.
Depuis lors, elle se consacre à la bande dessinée et à l’illustration
tout en étant soulagée d’avoir terminé son baccalauréat en arts visuels
et médiatiques à l’UQAM. Cathon est la co-auteure de La liste des choses qui existent (La Pastèque, 2013), d’Encore plus de choses qui existent (La Pastèque, 2015), des Cousines vampires (Pow Pow, 2014) et l’auteure des Ennuis de Lapinette (Comme des géants, 2015) et de Mimose et Sam (Comme des géants, 2016). Elle a également illustré Le plus beau sapin du monde (Bayard, 2016) et Le champ maudit (La courte échelle, 2016), en plus de dessiner pour les revues Liberté, Planches et La Gazette des Femmes.
Sandra Huber wrote Assembling the Morrow: A Poetics of Sleep
(Talonbooks, 2014), which resulted from a residency at a sleep laboratory in Lausanne. She is currently doing a PhD in Humanities at Concordia University, where
she focuses on the practice and media of divination. Sandra holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of
Toronto, and has worked as an editor for contemporary art at Hatje Cantz Verlag in
Berlin. She is a practicing witch and initiated medium.
Samuel Cantin est un bédéiste et auteur Québécois né en 1986 à
Sherbrooke. Il a publié trois romans graphiques aux Éditions Pow Pow,
dont le dernier, Whitehorse-Première partie, a remporté le prix Bédélys 2016 de la meilleure BD de l’année.
Wednesday, 26 April 2017
Tonight, Wednesday, April 26th, the Reading Across Borders book club will meet at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (211 Bernard ouest) at 7 pm to discuss Leila S. Chudori's Home (Pulang), translated from the Indonesian by John H. McGlynn. Join us for ruminations and refreshments!
The Reading Across Borders book club focuses on literature in English translation, with a particular interest in writers who are not (yet) well-known in the English-speaking world. Hosted by store staffer Helen Chau Bradley, the book club meetings will happen every two months, and are open to all.
We regret that the bookstore is not wheelchair accessible. There are two steps at the entrance, followed by two doors that open inward. Once inside, there are no additional steps to access the bathroom, although the bathroom space is narrow.
Home is an ambitious saga that spans years and continents, beginning with the establishment of the Suharto dictatorship in 1960s Jakarta and threading its way through the lives of leftist Indonesian political exiles in Paris in the following decades. It complicates the meaning of "home" through its characters' varying senses of displacement and belonging. The novel is filled with heady love affairs and mouthwatering culinary passages, even as it establishes itself within the context of horrifying violence and loss. Leila S. Chudori is known as Indonesia's most prominent and outspoken female author and journalist.
Tuesday, 25 April 2017
The new and highly anticipated Guy Delisle book, Hostage, is out today on Drawn & Quarterly! For Delisle, well known for his masterful travelogues like Shenzhen and Pyongyang, Hostage is a departure from his regular style towards a different sort of memoir. It tells the story of Christophe André, a young NGO administrator working for Doctors Without Borders, and his kidnapping by a group of Chechen rebels in 1997. At more than 400 pages - the bulk of which depict a man confined to one room and handcuffed to a radiator - Delisle proves his cartooning prowess, keeping readers on the edge of their seats!
There's rarely a dull moment in André's ordeal. Delisle skillfully conveys the psychological effects of solitary confinement as he transports you into André's physical and mental space more completely with each panel. Held by his captors for a period lasting over three months, the pacing of the storytelling is perfect and I was rapt right up until the exhilarating finale.
On Saturday, May 6th Guy Delisle will be in Montreal to launch Hostage at the Rialto Hall! Join us there for a discussion of the book and signing. Tickets are $5 or free with purchase of the book at Librairie D+Q. Tickets are also for sale online!
Friday, 21 April 2017
Join us on Thursday, May 18th at 7:00 pm for a poetry reading with the wonderful Alex Dimitrov coming from New York, and Robin Richardson, coming from Toronto, to perform at D+Q alongside Montrealers Alex Manley and Lauren Turner.
Alex Dimitrov’s new collection, Together and by Ourselves, has been described as “truth-telling, raw, fierce with feeling,” which also kind of seems like a good description of all four poets we’ll have on stage.
LINEUP:
~ALEX DIMITROV~ is the author of Together and by Ourselves (Copper Canyon Press, 2017) and Begging for It (Four Way Books, 2013). He is the recipient of the Stanley Kunitz Prize from the American Poetry Review and a Pushcart Prize. Shout-out to his beautiful Twitter project with Dorothea Lasky, @poetastrologers.
~ROBIN RICHARDSON~ is the author of two full-length collections of poetry and the Editor-in-Chief of the Minola Review, a journal of women’s arts & letters. Her forthcoming poetry collection, Sit How You Want, will be published next year by Véhicule Press.
~ALEX MANLEY~ is the author of We Are All Just Plants and Animals (Metatron, 2016). He is left-handed and has lived in Montreal his entire life.
~LAUREN TURNER~ is a Montreal-based poet and a recent graduate of Concordia's MA program in Creative Writing. Her work has previously appeared in Geist, Arc Magazine and many other publications.
Hosted by GUILLAUME MORISSETTE & JESSICA BEBENEK.
Thursday, 20 April 2017
Each month we host a Graphic Novel Book Club meeting, open to all, during which we hang out and informally discuss a featured graphic novel. Our pick for this April is The Interview by Manuele Fior. We will meet at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (211 Bernard Avenue West) on Wednesday, May 17th at 7 p.m. The discussion will be hosted by Librairie Drawn & Quarterly staff member Saelan Twerdy. Join us for refreshments and collective insights!
***We are offering a 20% discount on The Interview from now until the meeting date!***
Following his critically acclaimed and internationally award-winning debut, 5,000 KM per Second, Manuele Fior returns with The Interview, a near-future sci-fi story that eschews the stars in favor of the interior world of human emotion. Set in Italy in 2048, it follows Raniero, a 50-something psychologist, as his marital problems are compounded by the arrival of mysterious messages from an extraterrestrial civilization. Equal parts cosmic speculation and poignantly observed domestic realism, The Interview heralds Fior's emergence as a major talent in contemporary comics.
Join us for the launch of Mary Soderstrom's latest book: Road through Time: The Story of Humanity on the Move (University of Regina Press, Spring 2017) on Thursday, April 20th at 7:00 pm.
Accessible and entertaining, Road Through Time begins with the story of how anatomically modern humans left Africa to populate the world. She then carries us along the Silk Road in Central Asia, and tells of roads built for war in Persia, the Andes, and the Roman Empire. She sails across the seas, and introduces the first railways, all before plunking us down in the middle of a massive, modern freeway.
The book closes with a view from the end of the road, literally and figuratively, asking, can we meet the challenges presented by a mode of travel dependent on hydrocarbons, or will we decline, like so many civilizations that have come before us?
Tuesday, 18 April 2017
With
its twentieth issue, one of the biggest graphic novel events of the
early 21st century is fast-approaching—the completion of Jason Lutes’
epic Berlin series.
Here, the inevitable antagonist of the tale of pre-WWII Germany begins
to take center stage. Marthe and Kurt find their way back to each
other—he, from the bottom of the bottle and she, from a one-sided
relationship.
Fascism creeps into every corner of society, but some can
see it better than others.
Down Below - Leonora Carrington (NYRB Classics)
Published in commemoration of the centennial of Carrington's birth, Down Below is the surrealist painter's account of her war-related psychotic break and subsequent institutionalization.
Of Cats and Men - Sam Kalda (Ten Speed Press)
For centuries, felines and femininity have been practically synonymous—hence the reproachable "crazy cat lady" stereotype. Of Cats and Men takes the initiative in celebrating some of history's famous, cat-loving men!
The Humane Gardener - Nancy Lawson (Princeton Architectural Press)
Columnist and gardener Nancy Lawson makes an earnest and eloquent plea for compassion and respect towards all species.
Book of Mutter - Kate Zambreno (Semiotext(e))
Written in a thirteen-year period after her mother's death, Book of Mutter is Kate Zambreno's intimate and disquieting portrayal of grief in all of its manifestations.
Friday, 14 April 2017
Here are this week's picks:
This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories (Leanne Simpson)
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, acclaimed Nishnaabeg storyteller and poet, has returned with a collection of searing songs, poems, and stories. In This Accident of Being Lost, Simpson’s commitment to uncompromising truth-telling seeps from every fragment, every turn of phrase. Through a blend of traditional storytelling and wry domestic realism, Simpson protects Indigenous knowledge while simultaneously providing valuable context from non-Indigenous readers.
Animals of a Bygone Era (Maja Säfström)
A follow-up to the bestselling Illustrated Compendium of Amazing Animal Facts, Maja Säfström’s new book sets her distinct style on creatures from times past. Säfström illustrates fascinating ancient-animal facts with equal parts passion and whimsy, all the while deftly sidestepping cliché—”dinosaurs have intentionally been left out of this book to give some attention to other fascinating—but less famous—creatures that one lived on this planet”.
Too Much and Not the Mood (Durga Chew-Bose)
Montreal writer Durga Chew-Bose seems poised for literary stardom. Her writing has been published across a myriad of journals and reviews—including n+1 and Interview Magazine—and Maris Kreizman described it thus: "If you admire Maggie Nelson’s ability to combine the personal and the academic into a thrilling new art form, Durga Chew-Bose will be your next favorite writer." Too Much and Not the Mood, taking its name from a Virginia Woolf diary entry, is a philosophical, occasionally brooding, and often stirring collection of essays from a burgeoning talent.
Make Trouble (John Waters)
When John Waters, the Prince of Puke himself, was invited to address a graduating class at the Rhode Island School of Design, his impishly subversive advice (of course!) went viral. The immensely talented Waters asks “So what if you have talent? Then what?” Make Trouble is an exegesis of the creative process, and of creativity as a profession. John Waters decrees that no matter what field we choose, we must embrace chaos, we must make trouble!
Saga Volume 7 (Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples)
The 7th volume of the highly addictive space-opera Saga is here! Written by Brian Vaughan and illustrated by Fiona Staples, this sci-fi series was described by David Sims for The Atlantic as “like Star-Wars, but unfilmable and brilliantly bonkers.” Imaginative, sexy, and bristling with humour, Saga is ideal for comics nerds and newbies alike.
Wednesday, 12 April 2017
We’re very excited to be the official bookseller for the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival and we’re looking for extra hands between Wednesday April 26th - Monday May 1st.
Responsibilities would include:
Requirements
Valid Canadian Driver’s License
Has legal use of a registered vehicle between April 26th-May 1st
Confident and safe driver in Montreal
Ability to speak/read/write/understand French and English
Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities
Excellent time management skills - punctual
Must be able to lift 50 lbs
Available from Wednesday April 26th- Monday May 1st
Available to communicate via text message.
Adapts well to changing situations
Assets
Passionate about comics/book industry
Ability to work sales table at offsite events (customer service, working with a cash, working with sales systems)
Hourly wage is negotiable.
If you are interested in applying, please email rebecca@drawnandquarterly.com with your resume and cover letter on or before April 18th, 2017. Please write : “Blue Metropolis : Driver Application” in the subject line.
Tuesday, 11 April 2017
After a decade, Love and Rockets has returned to floppy format! The second issue is out now.
“Lorina Mapa offers up an intimate look at Philippine society and culture, but above all, a deeply endearing father-daughter love story.” - Michel Rabagliati
Following the success of 5,000 Kilometers a Second, the second graphic novel from Manuele Fior has arrived, and it's set in the future!
Hot off the press, this Ignatz award-winning series Ganges comes to a close with its sixth and final issue.
The latest installment in the the dangerously addictive space opera series, Saga is bound to be action-packed.
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