11's

Most of the books I read have not come out the year I read them. And most are not Canadian.


Here are two that are or were or did.

Matt Rader's A Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle Over the River Arno. It's so good.

Stuart Ross' Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew. Also so good.

Excited to read David McGimpsey's L'il Bastard. Like so excited.


And in my first installment of 'books that give you a boner when you see them in the shop': Martin Amis' Larkin Selected (Philip Larkin Poems, Faber). Sure, we all have these poems in some form. And Sean O'Brien wants to remind us to feel like dorks for buying this product of Christmas marketing but... it's so good looking.

NOBODY'S GONNA GO TO THE PICTURE

I genuinely love people who say, "it's a free country".

ANDROMACHE

Is coming. So soon.

MATT BERRY (IS SO DISGUSTING BUT I STILL WANT TO HAVE HIS BABIES)

COME

Modern Takes on Old Stories
Luminato 2011 examines modern takes on old stories, from its commission of One Thousand and One Nights, to Evie Christie’s adaptation of Racine’s Andromache, to Theatre Smith-Gilmour’s production of LU XUN blossoms. Join One Thousand and One Nights’ director Tim Supple, author Evie Christie, artistic director Dean Gilmour and renowned Columbia professor Muhsin al-Musawi, an expert on One Thousand and One Nights, for a rich discussion on the craft of adaptation and interpretation.

Modern Takes on Old Stories takes place on Saturday, June 18 at 4:30 PM at Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas Street West. Free.