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06 September 2018
Book*hug and Type Books are pleased to host this launch for the new poetry collection Branches from Mark Truscott.
About Branches
Careful attention reveals that, even in moments that seem insignificant, our minds are constantly navigating disjunctions among registers of experience. Our intellect silently reminds our eyes that the car that appears to be moving between leaves is actually behind them and much larger. The sound of the vacuum cleaner in the next room is noise to be ignored. The phrase that arises in mind belongs to a conversation earlier in the day. Clear thinking demands that these navigations remain unconscious. But what if they’re meaningful, or productive, in themselves? What if they’re necessary to help us find a more meaningful place in the world? Branches explores these questions.
About Mark Truscott
Mark Truscott is the author of two previous books of poetry: Said Like Reeds or Things (2004) and Nature (2010), which was shortlisted for the ReLit Award for Poetry. Poems from Branches have appeared in Event, The Walrus and on the Cultural Society website (culturalsociety.org). Truscott was born in Bloomington, Indiana, and grew up in Burlington, ON. He lives in Toronto.
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05 September 2018
Viking Canada, Type Books and the Centre for Indigenous Studies are thrilled to host this unique opportuntiy to celebrate the launch of Split Tooth the first novel by the internationally acclaimed Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq.
Tanya will be in conversation with artist Kent Monkman.
Doors open at 6:00pm and the event starts at 6:30pm.
Tickets for the event are on sale at Eventbrite.ca
Copies of Split Tooth will be availble for purchase. The event will be followed by a book signing.
About Tanya Tagaq
Tanya Tagaq is a internationally renowed, Juno-nominated and Polaris-prize winning Inuk throat singer from Nunuvat. tanyatagaq.com About Split Tooth Veering back and forth between the grittiest features of a small arctic town, the electrifying proximity of the world of animals, and ravishing world of myth, Tanya Tagaq explores a world where the distinctions between good and evil, animal and human, victim and transgressor, real and imagined lose their meaning, but the guiding power of love remains. Haunting, brooding, exhilarating, and tender all at once, Tagaq moves effortlessly between fiction and memoir, myth and reality, poetry and prose, and conjures a world and a heroine readers will never forget.
About Kent Monkman
Kent Monkman is a Canadian artist of Cree ancestry who is well known for his provocative reinterpretations of romantic North American landscapes. Themes of colonization, sexuality, loss, and resilience - the complexities of historic and contemporary Indigenous experience - are explored in a variety of mediums, including painting, film/video, performance, and installation. kentmonkman.com
About the Centre for Indigenous Studies
The Centre for Indigenous Studies is mandated to foster innovative, participatory research with urban Indigenous peoples and develop collaborations with Indigenous communities and community organizations. CIS cultivates research related to Indigenous pedagogy, methodologies and epistemology that focus on Indigenous peoples as cultural workers, social change agents, leaders and thinkers. CIS also supports the recruitment and retention of Indigenous graduate and undergraduate students, and is working to enhance the visibility of Indigenous peoples at the University of Toronto.
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20 August 2018
See you all at Type Books Queen West tomorrow night!
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18 July 2018
This is going to be great! It's all FREE but seating will be very limited!
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18 July 2018
Last chance this year to catch this singular event, under the beautiful tree canopy of Dufferin Grove Park. Please join us! We'll be there selling books.
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18 July 2018
Book*hug and Type Books are please to co-host the book launch of Catherine Fatima's Sludge Utopia.
Special guest reader will be poet Fan Wu and Vida Beyer
This event is FREE and seating is limited.
In a kind of Catherine Millet meets Roland Barthes baring of life with hints of the work of Chris Kraus, Sludge Utopia by Catherine Fatima is an auto-fictional novel about sex, depression, family, shaky ethics, ideal forms of life, girlhood, and coaching oneself into adulthood under capitalism. Using her compulsive reading as a lens through which to bring coherence to her life, twenty-five-year-old Catherine engages in a series of sexual relationships, thinking that desire is the key to a meaningful life. Yet, with each encounter, it becomes more and more clear: desire has no explanation; desire bears no significance. From an intellectual relationship with a professor, a casual sexual relationship, to a serious love affair, to a string of relationships that takes Catherine from Toronto to France and Portugal and back again, Sludge Utopia presents, in highly examined, raw detail, the perspective of a young woman's punishing though intermittently gratifying sexuality and profound internalized misogyny, which causes her to bring all of life's events under sexuality's prism.
Catherine Fatima is a writer who was born, raised and currently lives in Toronto. Sludge Utopia is her first book.
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27 June 2018
This Saturday! A reward for those staying in TO this long weekend! It's free and space is very limited.
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11 June 2018
A unique opportunity to hear and meet Eduardo Corral. Guest readers will include Michelle Brown and Natalie Wee.
Eduardo C. Corral's first book, Slow Lightning, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2011. He's the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the National Holmes Poetry Prize, and the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. He teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing at North Carolina State University.
Originally from Victoria, BC, Michelle Brown now lives in Toronto. Her work has previously appeared in Arc, CV2, Prism, The Malahat Review and The Walrus, amongst others. A finalist for the CBC poetry prize and Young Buck poetry prize, Safe Words (Palimpsest Press, 2018) is her first full-length collection.
Natalie Wee is a writer, editor, and community-builder of Peranakan descent. She is the author of Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines (Words Dance Publishing, 2016), which has been featured in Room Magazine's "30 Books by 30 Queer Canadian Writers."
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11 June 2018
Part family memoir, part social history—the Cowkeeper's Wish includes tales about music halls and workhouses, philanthropists and silent film stars, bootmakers and grave robbers, royalty and suffragettes, war ships and luxury ships, mental asylums and candy factories.
This event is free and will take place at our Queen Street West location.
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07 June 2018
Thanks Metro Morning for supporting indie bookstores and having our own Rebecca on the show today to share some Summer Read suggestions.
Here's the list: There There - Tommy Orange Tangerine - Christine Mangan Sick: A Memoir - Porochista Khakpour The Lifters - Dave Eggers The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore - Kim Fu
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04 June 2018
Tickets still available for Ben Lerner talk with Canadian Art tomorrow night!
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28 May 2018
WEDNESDAY night at 6:30pm please join us for the launch of this beautiful book by Sarindar Dhaliwal from Rodman Hall Art Centre/Brock University http://www.typebooks.ca/posts/348
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23 May 2018
THIS SATURDAY! Join us in welcoming NOON to Canada!! 7:30-9pm. IT'S FREE and seating is limited.
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18 May 2018
And after, drop by the fun at the Gladstone! Two great literary events tomorrow night!!! https://www.westendphoenix.com/…/tadzio-koelb-and-lucas-sil…
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18 May 2018
Stay in town this Friday night and come join us at the Reference Library!
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14 May 2018
TONIGHT please join us at the launch of Radiant Shimmering Light with Sarah Selecky!
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09 May 2018
We're thrilled to be hosting the first Canadian launch of NOON. It's a great line-up. Don't miss it!
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