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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
Don't forget to stop by the store tomorrow for FREE COMIC BOOK DAY, where you can pick up D+Q's free comic, Gekiga! Also, be sure to read up about it and other FCBD specials at Salon, where they've been reviewed.
Posted by Jessica Campbell at 3:27 PM
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Application deadline is May 15th, so apply now! Details here.
(poster by Julia Rothman, design superstar and author of one of our favorite book blogs, Book By Its Cover.)
Posted by Jessica Campbell at 5:12 PM
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
 I had never heard of The Night Life of Trees before we opened the store with 40 copies of it and a bunch of other stuff from Tara Publishing. Since then, it's become a household name around the store (and, it seems, the neighborhood). It might even be our top-selling book, and we're a comic book store. 'I am just in love with this book-it could possibly have made it to the top of my all time favorites. The whole book is crafted by hand, each page is silkscreened on handmade paper in India by a commune of printers from local villages.'
 'The book features a tree on every page printed on black paper- the colors almost glow- they are so intense. The intricate pattern filled drawings are made by three artists of the Gond tribe of Central India- Bhajju Shyam, Durga Bai, and Ram Singh Urveti and each is accompanied by a short paragraph of folklore. This book is more beautiful than I can ever describe- so just get yourself one- it’s an edition of 1000.' That's right, a thousand copies. If we've gone through 70 on our own, these will be gone one day soon.  Whenever I hear a gasp from the far side of the store, I know either some expensive book has been dropped, or someone's just discovered the Night Life of Trees. It's sensory breadth includes a strange and intoxicating scent that probably comes from the inks used. When no one's around the store, I often trip out on this bold little treasure.
Posted by Matt Shane at 5:17 PM
Friday, April 25, 2008
Fans of Julie Morstad's Milk Teeth will be happy to know that we've just received her gorgeous collection of dolls, produced under the label Bee & Hornet. What's more, local silkscreen queen Layla Majeri has brought us the last few pieces from Hide, her collection of strange stuffed creatures that sold out in a flash at stores in New York and Japan!
 Julie Morstad's dolls. These remind me of classic Live Long Toys from the '20s.
 Pieces from Hide by Layla Majeri (click to enlarge). I like the hand-silkscreened labels as much as the toys themselves.
 This is the very last one of that design. Snap it up while you still can!
Posted by Claudia-Eve Beauchesne at 1:04 PM
First of all, let me just say that I can barely contain my excitement about Lynda Barry's new D+Q book, What It Is, which will come out in just a few weeks. The minute we have it in store, you'll know about it.
In the meantime, let me tell you about two of my new favourite authors, Etgar Keret and Tao Lin.
 You may remember that I raved about Keret's The Nimrod Flipout back in January. Well, we've received his new collection of funny/disturbing/poignant/surrealist short stories, The Girl on the Fridge, and it's just as amazingly weird, in a good way. I'm three-quarters through and I just found out that the chief (Mr. Oliveros) is also reading it. Read the opening micro-story about asthmatic declarations of love and the one about the woman who glues herself to her kitchen ceiling and you'll be hooked too!
I don't read much poetry, but I loved you are a little bit happier than i am by Tao Lin, a collection of free verse poems told in a really deadpan tone. At first, Lin's constant existential dread might seem like a downer, but he makes enough references to blanket forts, pouring orange juice on his own face, AOL Messenger and hamsters to offset the gloom and bring some comic relief. In fact, one of the book's most absurdly funny poems is called "you published a one-page comic where someone freaks out while eating breakfast". If you walk by the store and see me longingly staring out the window, you'll know that it's because I'm waiting for Lin's new book, cognitive-behavioral therapy, to arrive...
Posted by Claudia-Eve Beauchesne at 12:56 AM
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Hey everyone, come on out to 211 this Sunday for locals, Sontag Shogun. The weather is beautiful, and what could be better than music in a bookstore?
Sontag Shogun have been playing for a couple years now under a variety of titles.
They'd do a better job of describing their sound than I could:
"... an experimental noise band that falls somewhere between a lullaby and a nightmare. Guitars, keys, laptops, harmonicas, drones, loops, hiss...think Eno and Otomo Yoshihide being picked off by a legion of bloodthirsty pterodactyls. To top it all off, they will be joined by singer/guitarist Helen Bradley, who's sultry french lyrics will spill over the layered sound scape like blood on a sandcastle. So come to the D&Q store Sunday, 3pm on April 27th for an eclectic electronic/acoustic set that will remind you why you don't want to be deaf."
See you there!
Posted by Matt Shane at 5:18 PM
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