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All My Friends Are Superheroes
Coach House Books 2013; US$ 6.47A tenth anniversary edition of the worldwide cult favorite, now with new material and illustrations. more...
The State of the Arts
Coach House Books 2002; US$ 18.95City Hall proclaimed 2006 the Year of Creativity. ?Live With Culture? banners flap over the city. And across the city, donors are ponying up millions for the ROM and the AGO. Culture?s never had it so good. Right? The State of the Arts explores the Toronto arts scene from every angle, applauding, assailing and arguing about art in our fair burg.... more...
Notebook of Roses and Civilization
Coach House Books 2011; US$ 12.95The heat of summer on an earlobe, a parking meter, the shadow of crabs and pigeons under a cherry tree, an olive, a shoulder blade ? in the poems of Nicole Brossard these concrete, quotidian things move languorously through the senses to find a place beyond language. Taken together, they create an audacious new architecture of meaning. Nicole Brossard,... more...
GreenTOpia
Coach House Books 2004; US$ 18.95More trees. Hydrogen-fuelled cabs. Urbiology. A new model of taxation. Solar panels on big-box stores. The art of salvage. Composters for dog poo in city parks. Retrofitting our urban slabs. Gardening the Gardiner. Ravine City. What would make Toronto a greener place? In the third volume of the uTOpia series, dozens of imaginative Torontonians... more...
Biting the Error
Coach House Books 2000; US$ 16.95What is the best way to tell a story? In this anthology, the first-ever collection of essays by innovative, cutting-edge writers on the theme of narration, forty of the continent's top experimental writers describe their engagement with language, storytelling and the world. The anthology includes renowned writers like Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper,... more...
Fences in Breathing
Coach House Books 2005; US$ 14.95Invited to a quiet Swiss château by the enigmatic Tatiana Beaujeu Lehmann, Anne begins to slowly write a novel in a language that is not hers, a language that makes meaning foreign and keeps her alert to the world and its fiery horizon. Will the strange intoxication that takes hold of her and her characters ? sculptor Charles; his sister Kim, about... more...
Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon
Coach House Books 2001; US$ 14.95Carla Carlson is at the Hotel Clarendon in Quebec City trying to finish a novel. Nearby, a woman, preoccupied with sadness and infatuated with her boss, catalogues antiquities at the Museum of Civilization. Every night, the two women meet at the hotel bar and talk ? about childhood and parents and landscapes, about time and art, about Descartes... more...
uTOpia
Coach House Books 2001; US$ 18.95Since the election of Mayor David Miller in November 2003, Toronto has experienced a wave of civic pride and enthusiasm not felt in decades. At long last, Torontonians see their city as a place of possibility and potential. Visions of a truly workable, liveable and world-class city are once again dancing in citizens? heads. In the past two years,... more...
HTO
Coach House Books 2004; US$ 18.95Drained by a half-dozen major watersheds, cut by a network of deep ravines and fronting on a Great Lake, Toronto is dominated by water. Like most cities, though, Toronto has mismanaged its water, from the decades-long transformation of the city?s creeks into sewersheds to the alteration of Toronto?s waterfront. Recently, the trend of fettering Toronto?s... more...
Concrete Toronto
Coach House Books 2004; US$ 20.95Toronto is a concrete city. From international landmarks to civic buildings to cultural institutions to metropolitan infrastructure and the single-family home, reminders of the era of 'brutalist' architecture surround Torontonians. But for how long? As architectural fashion has shifted to the glass-and-steel neomodernism of today, these concrete... more...









