Aaron peters drunk on air video10/23/2022 (Vincent Morreale, House of Anansi Press)Īccompanied by Jacob Pyne's full-colour illustrations, Gabriel Cholette's lyricism leads us through the bathrooms and back rooms of clubs and raves across Montreal, New York and Paris in Scenes from the Underground. Cholette's words read like field notes of the sex, drugs and music that make up queer nightlife.Ĭholette frequents the New York, Berlin, and Montreal underground scenes for literary material. Scenes From the Underground is a book by Gabriel Cholette and Illustrated by Jacob Pyne. He continues to raise awareness about Syria's ongoing civil war and humanitarian crisis through his work as an activist, editor, visual artist and author. Saeed spent 12 years as a prisoner of conscience in Syria before being invited to Canada in 2016. He chronicles the sociopolitical landscape in Syria from the 1950s up until his escape to Canada, documenting the harrowing experience but also the beauty of village life, the love of his family and his hope for the future. My Road from Damascus tells the story of his life: as a young person finding love, developing critical thought, living in hiding from the police for 30 months, his eventual imprisonment and his family's escape to Canada. Imprisoned for his political writing and his opposition to the regimes of the al-Assads, Saeed spent years in Syria's most notorious military prisons. Jamal Saeed sought refuge in Canada in 2016 after being imprisoned three times for a total of 12 years in his native Syria. My Road From Damascus is a memoir by Jamal Saeed. In 2014, Fagan received the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People for his body of work. He is also the author of the novels A Bird's Eye and The Studentand the short story collection My Life Among the Apes. His children's books include the popular Kaspar Snit novels, the two-volume Master Melville's Medicine Show and the picture book Mr. Why Cary Fagan has a love-hate relationship with wordsĬary Fagan is an Ontario author of several books for adults and children.The Animals explores the nature of relationships, faunal and human, and reminds us of the challenges of finding one's place in society. Life takes a strange turn when the government-sponsored "Wild Home Project" is introduced and wild animals cohabit with the town residents. The Animals is a fable-like narrative featuring the protagonist Dorn, who creates miniature scale models displayed in the local shops. The mild-mannered Dorn deals with an untrustworthy younger sibling and a distant father - all while trying to show his deeper feelings of love to Ravenna, the ungainly schoolteacher.
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