BOOKS
The Canadian Fuhrer: The Life of Adrien Arcand, by Jean-François Nadeau, Lorimer
by Bryan Demchinsky
13.11.2011
On a recent chilly November evening, en route to pick up some friends at a St. Antoine St. hotel, my spouse and I strolled over to the Occupy Montreal site, a few metres away on Victoria Square.
Queen Vicky must be doing 500 rpm about now, I thought as I looked at the landscape of tents and tarps, which in the street lamps’ half light had the aspect of a refugee camp in a more blighted part of the world.
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BOOKS
The Big Dream, by Rebecca Rosenblum, Biblioasis
by Mark Paterson
06.11.2011
Of the many charms that made Once, Rebecca Rosenblum’s 2008 debut, such an outstanding book, one of the best was the way the author wrote about jobs. From a fruit factory to a hotel laundry, from an IT department to a bookstore, Once was filled with genuine, vivid observations of the world of work, capturing both the loathing and the grudging affection for the things we do to pay the rent.
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