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Sea urchins, Wim Wenders and Rapunzel: Bookishness for July 29, 2013

By Ange Friesen
July 29, 2013

Wim Wenders’s number one rule of filmmaking
“You have a choice of being “in the business” or of making movies. If you’d rather do business, don’t hesitate. You’ll get richer, but you won’t have as much fun!” + 49 more.

Woody Allen movies as infographics

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Rapunzel Syndrome
“How disgusting could a condition be if it’s named after a beautiful maiden with golden tresses tantalizing enough to get her royal booty calls on the reg? Pretty damned disgusting.” This and six other “horrifying ailments named after literary characters.”

Sea Urchin pencil sculptures

PencilUrchinBy Jennifer Maestre.

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Ange Friesen

Ange Friesen is among other things a librarian. She blogs about film and fashion at Cahiers du cinemode and about everything else at the new is the true.

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Reading Life: Three Toronto Authors on Their Favourite Habits

By Kelli Deeth
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Rebecca Rosenblum What do you most enjoy reading, and how often do you indulge in the habit? I read something almost every day—it would have to be a bizarre state of emergency that I didn’t absorb at least some text. Short stories and novels are my staples, mixed in with poetry, plays, and graphic novels. I also adore magazines but try to keep them to a minimum because they will overrun me...

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Finding the Enemy: Plaza Requiem, by Martha Batíz

By Lucy Policelli
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Few happy endings take place in Plaza Requiem, the aptly titled short story collection by Mexican-Canadian author Martha Bátiz, recently published by Exile Editions, but a lucidity exists in Bátiz’s writing that buoys the reader through her most gruesome tales. Bátiz, a Mexican writer now living in Canada, is the author of several books in Spanish, both fiction and non-fiction. She now teaches at...

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Portrait of an Invisible Artist: Transit by Rachel Cusk

By Daniel Aureliano Newman
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Only one book I read last year rivalled Rachel Cusk’s Transit, the sequel to her 2014 novel Outline. That other book was Outline. Transit won’t thrill everyone: it will enrage those expecting plot, and it may unsettle those expecting a straightforward depiction of family drama and self-discovery. But many will read it with the breathless exhilaration it deserves. Like Outline, Transit is a series...

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The Geography of Desire – A review of Siren by Kateri Lanthier

By Hannah Brown
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If you wanted to find a daughter abducted by a powerful man, you might need to cover a lot of territory. The earth mother Demeter gave wings to young women singers willing to search, but when they failed to find the man, she left them stuck on the rocks, singing to men who would be seduced. Kateri Lanthier’s second collection of poems, Siren, also covers a lot of territory, and although, like...

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By Ange Friesen July 29, 2013
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