How Technology is Reshaping the Book Industry: A Closer Look at Reading Apps
Technology has breathed new life into publishing.
Mondo Mado: Luc Provost on becoming a Montreal drag mother and writing a book about it
“The story about my life is not complicated, it’s not sad, it’s not tormented. And I wanted to share that with the public because there are so many stories about drag queens and gay boys that have had a hard time in their youth. I’ve been blessed.”
4 books to read this month: Are You Willing to Die for the Cause?, The Book of Ayn, People Collide, Death Valley
A graphic novel about the FLQ, a genre-bending book about gender, getting funny about grief and more.
3 books to read this month: Girlfriend on Mars, Daddy Boy, Terrace Story
A fun space-tourism story, a meditation on gender, fatherhood and masculinity and an inter-generational epic spanning space and time.
3 books to read this month: Big Shadow, Lapvona & The Marigold
A coming-of-age story evoking #MeToo concerns, an unhinged tale of a fictional medieval fiefdom and a novel about killer sludge hitting Toronto’s luxury condo scene.
Beloved Montreal bookstore S.W. Welch has officially closed
“Thank you all for your support and sympathy, the years of buying and selling that most precious of objects, the stories, the human connections made and lost. There was never a day I did not want to be there.”
3 books to read this month: Biography of X, Users & I Fear My Pain Interests You
A fun fake biography, the story of a VR game recreating the experience of being haunted by your ex and the misadventures of the daughter of famous punks.
Best Comic Book Stores in Montreal: Best of MTL
Montreal has spoken.
Arizona O’Neill interviews 12 Quebec artists about happiness in her new illustrated book
We spoke with the author and illustrator behind Est-ce qu’un artiste peut être heureux?, a project she began by interviewing her mother, Heather O’Neill.
We spoke to Toula Drimonis about why her book “We, the Others” is striking a chord in Quebec
“With this current provincial government, it feels like if you don’t check enough boxes — if you’re not this, if you’re not that, if you don’t support Bill 21, if you’re not francophone, if you don’t speak French at home — then you’re not the ‘right’ type of Quebecer.”