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posted Saturday, March 30, 2024
Boys Alive, first published in 1955, was author and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini‘s first work of fiction, and it remains his best known to date. Written in the aftermath of Pasolini’s move from the provinces to Rome, the novel captures the. hunger and anger, waywardness and squalor of the big city. The life of […]
posted Friday, March 29, 2024
The Lookback Window tells the story of Dylan, who grew up in suburban New York, ad lived through the unfathomable: three years as a victim of sex trafficking at the hands of Vincent, a troubled young man who promised to marry Dylan when he turned eighteen. Years later—long after a police investigation that went nowhere, and […]
posted Sunday, March 10, 2024
A beautifully produced celebration of the iconic and beloved rock star, Elton John, that features live onstage and candid offstage photography, an entertaining history, and gatefold timeline. Few rock artists continue to gather more and more adulation with age than Sir Elton Hercules John. In this re-release of Elton John at 75 (2022), veteran rock journalist Gillian Gaar provides […]
posted Tuesday, March 5, 2024
I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together tells the story of Maurice Vellekoop, the youngest of four children raised by Dutch immigrants in the 1970s in a blue-collar suburb of Toronto. Despite their working-class milieu, the Vellekoops are devoted to art, music, and film, and they instill a deep reverence for the arts in […]
posted Sunday, March 3, 2024
Brad Sela is living an apathetic suburban life in his affluent neighborhood until two new friends drag him down a destructive path toward self-discovery. Freshly seventeen and entering his Y2K senior year, Brad is feeling fatigued by the cookie-cutter image his new-agey Oprah-loving mom and corporate-Boomer dad expect him to maintain. So, when the new […]
posted Saturday, March 2, 2024
The Serial Killer’s Son Takes a Wife tells the story of a mild-mannered ice cream entrepreneur named Bobby Blessing- who just happens to be the son of the infamous serial killer, The Brittle Butcher, marking time on Florida’s Death Row. His life pretty much sucks until he meets the girl of his dreams, Cori, and […]
posted Friday, February 9, 2024
Sly Stone‘s memoir, Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), moves from his early career as a radio DJ and record producer through the dizzying heights of the San Francisco music scene in the late 1960s and into the darker, denser life (and music) of 1970s and 1980s Los Angeles. Set on stages and in […]
posted Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Skater Boy is a pop punk debut about queer romance and destroying labels, as a teen risks everything to write his own story. Stonebridge High’s resident bad boy, Wesley “Big Mac” Mackenzie, is failing senior year—thanks to his unchecked anger, rowdy friends, and a tendency to ditch his homework for skateboarding and a secret photography […]
posted Tuesday, January 30, 2024
The Cure for Drowning is not only a brilliant, boundary-pushing love story, but a Canadian historical novel that boldly centres queer and non-binary characters in unprecedented ways.It’s evocative, magical and luminously written. Born Kathleen to an immigrant Irish farming family in southern Ontario, Kit McNair has been a troublesome changeling since, at ten, they fell […]
posted Saturday, January 20, 2024
In 101 Fascinating Canadian Music Facts, author and historian David McPherson shares 100 tales gathered from his more than 25 years working in the music industry. Did you know that Serena Ryder played the quietest concert ever from the ocean floor during low tide at Fundy National Park? Or that “I’ll Never Smile Again,” the hit […]
