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Gay for Pay
$18.95In Gay for Pay with Blake & Clay, two out-of-work gay actors teach straight men how to play the gay roles that lead to awards season glory. Blake and Clay may not be leading men, but they are leading these men to greatness by teaching them to go from straight to straight-up booked. Because representation matters, but Blake and Clay’s representation hasn’t called them in ages. Blake & Clay’s Gay Agenda invites you to the fabulous book launch for the world’s first how-to manual about the eternal conundrum that is gay living. Watch as Blake and Clay take the guesswork out of the queer experience and unite the community once and for all. Because if the gays can agree on one thing, it’s that they can’t agree on anything.
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Gay Monologues and Scenes
$25.00For those passionate about exercising their ability to experience (as actors) all aspects of the human condition.
With works by Salvatore Antonio, David Bateman, T. Berto, Ken Brand, Gavin Crawford, Julian Doucet, Paul Dunn, Blair Francey, Sky Gilbert, Jefferson Guzman, Peter Lynch, Michael Lewis MacLennan, Jordan Patterson, Sean Reycraft, David Roche, Edward Roy, Colin Thomas, and R.M. Vaughan. -
Gaza Before the Seventh
$24.95On the morning of October 7, 2023, Gaza erupted.
After sixteen years of Israeli blockade, Hamas breached the wall that had cut it off from the world to attack Israel. In the hours that followed, the Israeli army launched an assault on Gaza to “annihilate” Hamas. Since then, the death toll has reached tens of thousands. And tomorrow, nothing will remain of Gaza as we knew it.
Can one be nostalgic for what was unbearable? Guillaume Lavallée takes us with him to the heart of Gaza, a place where life was lived on borrowed time, a precarious existence, prodigiously human but forever bound to a conflict that had become the lifeblood of its children. It is to his own mother, whose memory is fading irrevocably, that he recounts, as well as to us, what Gaza was like, a place where the earth, the sky, and the sea had closed in, evoking the fire that engulfed it, but also the stubborn fire of hope that, just yesterday, refused to die.
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Gendered Islamophobia
$24.95Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, Non-fiction, 2023
This passionate book describes the author’s struggles as a hijab-wearing Muslim woman, who was born and raised in Tunisia, where she attended university before coming to Quebec, Canada as an immigrant. Mazigh describes her struggles against Islamophobia as it applies to women, especially those wearing hijab, who consistently get stereotyped as silent and compliant women dominated by their men. In great detail she describes this phenomenon, encountered in the streets and public spaces, in universities, and in the media, and she describes similar experiences of other women of different ethnic backgrounds across Canada, and its effects on the victims.
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Generation NeXXt
$16.95Finally, an anthology of scenes designed specifically for the young female actor. Sixteen female playwrights, some emerging (Jessy Arden, Alison McLean, Tricia Cooper), some established (Maureen Hunter, Margaret Sweatman, Yvette Nolan), join forces to ensure young female actors will no longer have to settle for drab scenes based in female stereotypes. Actors can practice their craft playing roles ranging from environmental terrorist to female chauvinist pig; from welfare recipient to single mother of a young Leonardo Da Vinci. Generation NeXXt not only delivers exciting roles that are gender- and age-appropriate, it offers a collection of scenes young women can really sink their teeth into.
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Generations
$55.00Over three generations, the Sobey family of Nova Scotia has demonstrated their discerning and enthusiastic commitment to Canadian art. Accompanying a major exhibition at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection and timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the prestigious Sobey Art Award, Generations tells the story of a visionary family and their engagement with Canadian and Indigenous art.
This sweeping survey encompasses works by the beloved leaders of Canadian 20th-century art — the Group of Seven, Tom Thomson, David Milne, and Emily Carr — as well as offering a rich display of works by Cornelius Krieghoff, the Quebec Impressionists, Automatiste painters Jean Paul Riopelle and Paul-Émile Borduas, and Ukrainian Canadian artist William Kurelek, before moving onward to showcase leading contemporary artists. Among them are international artist Peter Doig, whose works draw on the legacies of Canadian art, and Indigenous artists Brenda Draney, Ursula Johnson, Kent Monkman, and Brian Jungen.
Featuring more than 200 full-colour images, Generations includes an introduction by McMichael Chief Curator Sarah Milroy, essays by McMichael Executive Director Ian A.C. Dejardin, art historians Jocelyn Anderson, John Geoghegan, and Michèle Grandbois, and an interview with contemporary artist Kent Monkman.
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Générations
$55.00Générations raconte l’histoire des Sobey, famille visionnaire de la Nouvelle-Écosse qui, depuis trois générations, veille à la valorisation de l’art canadien et autochtone. L’ouvrage accompagne à merveille l’exposition majeure présentée au Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.
Générations met à l’honneur des monstres sacrés de l’art canadien du XXe siècle : le Groupe des Sept, Tom Thomson, David Milne, Emily Carr. L’ouvrage propose aussi un tour d’horizon de l’œuvre des impressionnistes du Québec, de Cornelius Krieghoff, des automatistes Riopelle et Borduas, et de William Kurelek, peintre canadien d’origine ukrainienne. Et c’est sans compter des artistes contemporains, dont Peter Doig, à l’expérience internationale souvent inspirée du patrimoine artistique canadien, et des artistes autochtones, tels Brenda Draney, Ursula Johnson, Kent Monkman et Brian Jungen.
Riche de plus de 200 illustrations couleur, Générations s’ouvre sur une introduction de Sarah Milroy, conservatrice principale de la collection McMichael, et à laquelle s’ajoutent des textes de Ian A.C. Dejardin, directeur général de la McMichael, ainsi que des historiens de l’art Michèle Grandbois, Jocelyn Anderson et John Geoghegan, en plus d’une entrevue avec Kent Monkman, artiste contemporain.
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Generator
$12.00In Generator, poet, musician and performance artist Ian Goodman explores the parameters of bardic cybernetics and robot love. Morphing forms of digital interface with traditional poetic structures, Goodman creates new media out of archaic lyric artifacts. Generator invites us to see the world through the reality-twisted lens of Goodman’s eye-pod goggle. The result is a poetics of sensitive observation for the seriously insane. Pretend robots develop fatal crushes on novella-collaborators through lavalife.com, pretend poets seduce potential lovers by imagining poetry out of existence, seagulls suffer from jet-fuel envy, and a comet-girl’s sneeze sends “a tsunami/ of dust bunnies towards Mercury.” Whether generating interplanetary ballads, cyber chat-room conversation poems or spam-filtered versions of Pale Fire, Goodman’s fearless approach to formal experimentation makes the world strange for us again. Ian Goodman is the 21st century’s answer to the Martian school of poetry.
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Genghis Con
$19.99Genghis Con is the story of guilt-ridden grifter, Alexis, who seeks redemption for herself and justice for her sister, Abigail, by taking part in a win or die rally race from England into the mountains of Mongolia. Along the way, she must team up with her erstwhile lover and fend off attacks from parties unknown, including one particularly ruthless gangster. Meanwhile, the spirit of a mysterious Mongol warrior haunts Alexis on her journey.
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Gentlemen of the Shade
$12.95Gus Van Sant’s film and the ’90s cult of the alternativeGus Van Sant’s 1991 indie darling My Own Private Idaho perplexed and provoked, inspiring a new ethos for a new decade: being different was better than being good. Gentlemen of the Shade examines how the film was a coming-of-age for a generation of young people who would embrace the alternative and bring their outsider perspectives to sustainability, technology, gender constructs, and social responsibility.My Own Private Idaho — fragmented and saturated with colour and dirt and a painfully beautiful masculinity — also crept into popular media, and its influence can still be traced. R.E.M. Portlandia. Hipsterism. James Franco. Referencing the often-funny and sometimes-tragic cultural touchstones of the past 26 years, Gentlemen of the Shade sets the film as social bellwether for the many outsiders who were looking to join the right, or any, revolution.About the Pop Classics SeriesShort books that pack a big punch, Pop Classics offer intelligent, fun, and accessible arguments about why a particular pop phenomenon matters.
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Gently to Nagasaki
$24.95Gently to Nagasaki is a spiritual pilgrimage, an exploration both communal and intensely personal. Set in Vancouver and Toronto, the outposts of Slocan and Coaldale, the streets of Nagasaki and the high mountains of Shikoku, Japan, it is also an account of a remarkable life. As a child during WWII, Joy Kogawa was interned with her family and thousands of other Japanese Canadians by the Canadian government. Her acclaimed novel Obasan, based on that experience, brought her literary recognition and played a critical role in the movement for redress.
Kogawa knows what it means to be classified as the enemy, and she seeks urgently to get beyond false and dangerous distinctions of “us” and “them.” Interweaving the events of her own life with catastrophes like the bombing of Nagasaki and the massacre by the Japanese imperial army at Nanking, she wrestles with essential questions like good and evil, love and hate, rage and forgiveness, determined above all to arrive at her own truths. Poetic and unflinching, this is a long-awaited memoir from one of Canada’s most distinguished literary elders.
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geo•logics
$16.95Stephen Rowe’s geo•logics—his highly anticipated follow-up to Never More There—binds the impermanent to the permanent. With sustained inquiries into loss and reason, Rowe seeks a motivation capable of accepting pain, and reveals the outlines of our temporary lives backlit by a radiant sense of time’s passage. These poems quietly unearth the symbiotic relationship between landscape and self, capturing our comings and goings in formally graceful and chiselled verse tended by a patient and stoic intelligence. Here, the passing leaves its trace, and the imprint endures within the abiding strength of art.
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Geographies of a Lover
$14.95Sarah de Leeuw’s Geographies of a Lover is a sexually charged travelogue of love, lust, and loss.Drawing inspiration from such works as Pauline Réage’s The Story of O and Marian Engel’s Bear, de Leeuw’s poetry uses the varied landscape of Canada–from the forests of North Vancouver through the Rocky Mountains, the prairies, and all the way to the Maritimes–to map the highs and lows of an explicit and raw sexual journey, from earliest infatuation to insatiable obsession and beyond.
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Geography of Pluto, The
$22.95Twenty-eight-year-old Will, a teacher living in Montreal, has spent the last few months recovering from a breakup with his first serious boyfriend, Max. He has resumed his search for companionship, but has he truly moved on? Will’s mother Katherine – one of the few people, perhaps the only one, who loves him unconditionally – is also in recovery, from a bout with colon cancer that haunts her body and mind with the possibility of relapse. Having experienced heartbreak, and fearful of tragedy, Will must come to terms with the rule of impermanence: to see past lost treasures and unwanted returns, to find hope and solace in the absolute certainty of change. In The Geography of Pluto, Christopher DiRaddo perfectly captures the ebb and flow of life through the insightful, exciting, and often playful story of a young man’s day-to-day struggle with uncertainty.
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George Bowering
$17.95This first book-length study of Bowering explores the relationship between his work and the arts.
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George Bowering and His Works
$9.95This volume explores the life and works of George Bowering. These studies of Canadian authors fulfill a real need in the study of Canadian literature. Each monograph is a separately bound study that contains a biography of the author, a description of the tradition and milieu that influenced the author, a survey of the criticism on the author, a comprehensive essay on all the author’s key works, and a detailed bibliography of primary and secondary works.