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Thursday, May 15, 2008
We've only been open for seven months but we made it to the top 5 in two categories of this year's edition of the Montreal Mirror's Best of Montreal readers poll!
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly took the #2 spot in the Best Comics Store category and the #5 position in the Best Bookstore (New) category because, as the Mirror says, "Yes, they sell more than just comics and graphic novels!"
Thanks for voting for us, folks!
Posted by Claudia-Eve Beauchesne at 6:47 PM
Needless to say, we dig music. With two rock stars in the house (check out Matt's band Think About Life and Rory's band Shapes & Sizes), a Pitchfork-addicted music fanatic at the office, in-store shows and regular customers from many local bands, we were bound to have a great selection of books about music and musicmakers.
Among the exciting new releases that would make great summer reads, there's Girls Like Us, a biography of singer-songwriters Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon...
Black Postcards: A Rock & Roll Romance by Dean Wareham of Galaxie 500 and Luna...
...and A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties by one-time Bob Dylan muse Suze Rotolo.
Then, there's the 33 1/3 series, little books about classic albums that make excellent gifts...
The Montreal issue of Fingered DVD zine (about the local noise scene), which was launched at the store last March...
Kim Gordon's Chronicles...
Actual Air, free-verse poetry by The Silver Jews' David Berman...
...and too many more to list them all. You'll have to come see for yourself!
Posted by Claudia-Eve Beauchesne at 4:00 PM
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
It's official! Lynda Barry's long-awaited What It Is is now available at the store!
What is it? It's a mixed-media art book, an activity book for aspiring writers and an autobiographical graphic novel rolled into one. It includes activities like fill-in the blanks, word associations, essay questions and Fluxus-like event scores such as "Write the names of two stories that you think cannot be true" and "Get a piece of thread about two feet long and tie a key or an eraser at one end. Hold the other end still."
You can see an excerpt of the book here, read a fascinating New York Times profile of Lynda Barry here (I had no idea that she lived on a farm!) and listen to Barry talk about her book here.
This is a truly seminal book. I'm sure that artists and writers will cite it as an influence for decades to come.
Posted by Claudia-Eve Beauchesne at 11:11 AM
Monday, May 12, 2008
It's our first year as a store so we're still gullible enough to think we can keep up with the client's unpredictable shopping patterns.
So: opening an hour earlier on Saturdays and Sundays. You might have wanted that. Anyway, you got it.
We'll also be closing an hour later on Sundays. So don't be confused-- let me map it out for you.
Sunday 11am - 7pm
Monday 12pm - 6pm
Tuesday 12pm - 6pm
Wednesday 12pm - 6pm
Thursday 12pm - 8pm
Friday 12pm - 8pm
Saturday 11pm - 8pm
Posted by Matt Shane at 5:22 PM
I have a predilection for anything that comes out of Scandinavia (music, art, design, Moomin!) so I'm obviously delighted to announce that we now carry Yokoland, an amazing art book featuring the work of a duo of young graphic designers based in Oslo, Norway.
The book came out a few years ago, but Yokoland's drawings, collages, photographs and installations are both undeniably now and completely timeless. Even international culture distiller Nick Curry (a.k.a. Momus) from the excellent blog Click Opera , finds their work "politically-texturally right on."
 This is a must-have for anyone interested in contemporary arts and graphic design, and it's sitting right next to books about legendary Disney Studios illustrator Mary Blair, wallpaper maven Florence Broadhurt and Fluxus figurehead Joseph Beuys in our newly expanded Arts section...
Posted by Claudia-Eve Beauchesne at 11:27 AM
Friday, May 9, 2008
In addition to his recent 700 page book with PictureBox, he recently had an exhibition at Clementine Gallery in New York (featured above), and has another major exhibition up at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Daydream Trap. Anyone in or near Ridgefield, CT should definitely check it out!
Gary will be doing a book signing tomorrow (Saturday, May 10th) evening (6-8) at the PictureBox storefront in New York, for those unable to make it out to Ridgefield.
Posted by Jessica Campbell at 5:37 PM
Friday, May 2, 2008
Andy from Conundrum Press stopped by yesterday to bring us Conundrum's latest release, Otherworld Uprising, a beautiful hardcover book featuring the work of Canadian artist Shary Boyle. It includes full-page colour images and essays by curators Ben Portis and Josee Drouin-Brisebois, and novelist Sheila Heti.
Boyle clearly has a fascination for exquisite freaks. I really like her sculptures that depict unusual sex practices with a freudian twist and her paintings that mix black and white with bursts of bright, almost fluorescent colours. But my favourites are her surreal porcelain figurines of deformed or amputated women dressed in lacy victorian clothes. They obviously carry a feminist message but they're also simply fascinating to look at. Stop by the store and see for yourself...
Posted by Claudia-Eve Beauchesne at 3:58 PM
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