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Under the covers of Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets, David Eso and Jeanette Lynes collect letters and epistolary poems from more than 120 Canadian poets, including Pauline Johnson, Malcolm Lowry, Louis Riel, Alden Nowlan, Anne Szumigalski , Leonard Cohen, John Barton, and Di Brandt, and many others, encompassing the breadth of this country's English literary history. Presented in order not of the chronology of composition,...
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Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and creative works on a representative array of avant-garde literary movements in Canada from the past fifty years. From the work of Leonard Cohen and B.P. Nichol to that of Jordan Abel and Liz Howard, Avant Canada features twenty-eight of the best writers and critics in the field. The book proposes four dominant modes of avant-garde production: "Concrete Poetics," which accentuates the visual...
83) Sobre el fuego
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El 6 de enero de 1990, tras dieciséis años de servicio, Larry Brown dejó el Cuerpo de Bomberos de Oxford, Mississippi, para intentar vivir de la literatura. Sobre el fuego es la crónica de aquellos años. El testimonio de un hombre enfrentado día a día a la muerte que empieza a sentir el deseo abrasador de escribir sobre la vida. En sus páginas se suceden los incendios desconcertantes y los accidentes de tráfico. Hay sangre y llamas. Valor...
84) 20 canciones
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La denuncia de Bob Dylan. La nostalgia de Rocío Jurado. La soledad según los Beatles. Los hechos reales que inspiraron a Nirvana y The Cranberries y las leyendas inventadas sobre Silvio Rodríguez y Luis Eduardo Aute. Las disputas de Oasis. Leonard Cohen y Enrique Morente unidos por García Lorca.
Una historia de amor de Joan Baez, otra de Joaquín Sabina. La malinterpretación de Bruce Springsteen. Las coplas de Carlos Cano, Concha Piquer y Joan...
85) Eat My Words
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Best-selling author Mungo MaCallum's witty and incisive take on the world of celebrity chefs and crazy food fads is underpinned by a deep affection for really good food. Mungo MacCallum started eating at an early age and just got back from lunch. In the meantime he has become one of Australia's wittiest and most incisive political journalists, written for everyone from the AUStRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW and SBS television to 2JJJ (now tRIPLE J) and PENtHOUSE....
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A history of the Mariposa Folk Festival, from its humble roots in Orillia in 1961 to international acclaim and legendary status as a premier folk music gathering. Mariposa began in the heyday of the early 60s 'folk boom.' In its more than fifty-five years, it has seen many of the world's greatest performers grace its stages: Pete Seeger, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Jann Arden, and Serena Ryder. The festival...
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A novel of criminal intrigue, eccentric love and the power of women.
After a twenty-year absence, Guy Vidoq is returning home to meet his daughter for the first time. He discovers his mercurial daughter, Isabelle, has been raised in a bizarre, cloistered environment by her libertine mother, Martine, who is now living with a young man, Harry, roughly the age of their daughter. If the intense, closed and sensual relationship of these three housemates...
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- Durante casi treinta años, Caetano Veloso y Carlos Galilea se han ido encontrando en Río de Janeiro, Salvador de Bahía, París, Londres, Madrid o Barcelona para conversar sin tapujos y con una gran complicidad sobre la canción, el cine, la política, el periodismo, el sexo, la vejez...
- Las 19 conversaciones se recogen en este libro en el que, además, hay textos sobre aspectos destacados de su biografía, una selección de letras de canciones,...
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From Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson, an insider's account of the deals and the dodges inside the music and entertainment business over the last 30 years. As the son of the legendary showbiz lawyer Marty Machat, Steven Machat grew up among such names as Frank Sinatra, James Brown, Frankie Valli, and Sam Cooke. Following in his father's footsteps, by the time he was in his late 20s he was proud to see his name alongside his father's on the brass plaque...
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Una conexión inspiradora entre personajes y eventos históricos con grandes artistas y canciones del rock
¿Qué sorprendente vínculo existe entre determinadas historias y algunas canciones y artistas muy populares como "Losing my Religion" de R.E.M. y el Nobel Gabriel García Márquez? ¿Y entre "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" de Bob Dylan y la crisis de los misiles de Cuba en 1962 o entre el tema "Lover, Lover, Lover" de Leonard Cohen y la guerra...
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From the inimitable Nick Cave comes a mesmerizing exploration of love, inspiration, and memory that chronicles his 2014 twenty-two-city American tour with the Bad Seeds. The Sick Bag Song began life scribbled on paper airline sick bags during Cave's 2014 tour. It soon grew into a restless full-length contemporary odyssey. Spurred by encounters with modern-day North America, beset by longing and exhaustion, Cave teases out the significant moments,...
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The career of Eli Mandel (1922–1992) was one of the most prolific and distinguished in all of Canadian literature, yet in recent years his work has gone unsung compared with that of such peers as Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Robert Kroetsch, Irving Layton, and P.K. Page. Though he was a critic, anthologist, and editor of national prominence, Mandel's legacy resides most securely in his poetry, which earned many accolades. From Room to Room: The...
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After falling in love with and marrying a man two lifetimes older than her, Irving Layton's last wife shares the story of her life with the acclaimed poet. While a student at Dalhousie University, Anna Pottier attended a poetry reading featuring Irving Layton. Walking out of the auditorium that night, she knew two things: she wanted more than ever to be a writer, and she wanted to be with Layton. At the age of twenty-three she became Layton's fifth...
94) The Thing is…
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Described as the Irish John Peel, Dave Fanning has been a major player in the Irish and global music scene for over 30 years. In this compelling memoir, RTE Radio 2 DJ Dave Fanning will give the behind-the-scenes story of all the international musicians he has met, including The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, David Bowie, The Who and many, many more. Dave's story starts in the 60s, when he discovered his love for Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen...
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Canadian actor, comedian and social activist Mary Walsh explodes onto the literary scene with this unforgettable story of a young woman coming of age in late 1960s NewfoundlandRaised on tough love in St. John's, Maureen is the second-youngest daughter of a bitter and angry mother and a beaten-down father who tells the best stories (but only when he's drunk). If life at home is difficult, then school is torture, with the nuns watching every move she...
96) Playlist
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Quand il commence à écrire pour le journal Le Soir, Thierry Coljon tape ses textes sur une machine à écrire, n'a pas de GSM et écoute ses disques vinyles sur une chaîne Hifi. Trente ans plus tard, le PC, le CD, l'iPod, le smartphone et les fichiers MP3 sont passés par là, transformant considérablement notre vie et notre façon de consommer la musique. De 1982 à aujourd'hui, ce sont trente ans o tout a changé. Le CD, qui a régné en maître,...
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In the words of Margaret Thatcher, "A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure." Everyone Rides the Bus in a City of Losers is about wandering Montreal's streets, with an eye on the storefronts and alley cats, and one foot already in the nearest dive bar. From a series of poems about every station on the Metro to music venues long shut down, it's sometimes fantastical, nostalgic, funny, and even joyful -...
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights. We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and...
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By June, Philip's view of English Bay, what's left of it, will be utterly gone. It was always going to happen. For years now, it's been getting harder and harder to see what's out there. For years now, it's been getting harder and harder to know what to do.
From one of Canada's most beloved personalities comes this delightful collection set around Christmastime in Vancouver's West End neighborhood. The eight linked stories in Bill Richardson's I...
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"Some people seek. Jews question. And to answer their questions comes The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia, a bible of Judaism that, in its deeply knowing and highly entertaining way, reflects the diverse and at times irascible tribe who identify as Jewish, or Jewish, or, in the case of future converts and/or spouses, Jewcurious. Here is a popcultural guide to all the many, many aspects and delights of "being Jewish," created by the hosts of the most popular...
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