The Beguiling specialty bookstore is proud to present two great graphic novel events this June, appealing to the vast breadth of graphic novel aficionados in the city of Toronto! The first event features acclaimed Norwegian cartoonist JASON–currently serializing his newest work in The New York Times Magazine–as he comes to Toronto to launch his new [...]
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Jun
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8
Feb
We;re first-time visitors to the youngest country in the world, sitting in a cafe in the world;s southernmost capital city. A city that happens - in case you didn;t know - to be the most remote capital in the world. And which boasts more restaurants, cafes and bars per capita than New York.
Wellington, New Zealand, [...]
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Jan
MINNEAPOLIS - Former Gov. Jesse Ventura may prefer Mexico to Minnesota these days, but his ex-constituents will still recognize his style if they pick up his upcoming book, “Don’t Start the Revolution Without Me!”
Ventura uses the book , part personal memoir, part political rant , to rail against organized religion and the media, detail his [...]
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Jan
Three decades ago, Lynne Tillman lived in a one-room flat at the tip of Manhattan that cost less per month than a lunch at many restaurants. The city was bankrupt. The World Trade Center had recently arisen, and South Street Seaport still employed fishmongers.
“They’d be coming in at the start of their day as [...]
10
Jan
Editor’s Choice
Bleeding Kansas, by Sara Paretsky, $25.95. Best-seller Paretsky, who has tackled weighty issues in her V.I. Warshawski detective series (e.g., the Holocaust in “Total Recall”), weaves a gripping, contemporary novel around three farm families %26mdash; the Grelliers, Fremantles and Schapens %26mdash; that can trace their Kaw Valley, Kan., roots back to the [...]
10
Jan
In the first paragraph of Alice Sebold’s new novel, “The Almost Moon” ($24.95), Helen Knightly admits that she has killed her mother. “When all was said and done,” says Helen, “killing my mother came easily.” After two decades of caring for her cruel, mentally ill mother, Helen is free. As her life unravels in the [...]
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Dec
Great Escapes around the WorldEdited by Angelika TaschenPublished by Taschen, £29.99
Outside the rain lashes the street. The wind rattles the windows. The turkey has been amputated and all the TV shows are reruns. In the bleak days between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, I’d rather be somewhere else. Anywhere else where the rellies aren’t superglued [...]
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Dec
The B-52’s The B-52’s (1979) With big hair, big tunes and big voices, the B-52’s surreal new wave offered them as a freakbeat take on Devo, with the spiralling Planet Claire (featuring Fred Schneider’s unmistakable deadpan bark), the Martian disco of Rock Lobster, and Dance this Mess Around, a girl group parody in which the [...]
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Dec
Three decades ago, Lynne Tillman lived in a one-room flat at the tip of
Manhattan which cost less per month than a lunch for one today at the Odeon.
The city was bankrupt. The World Trade Center had recently arisen, and South
Street Seaport still employed fishmongers. %26quot;They’d be coming in at the
start of their [...]
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