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one summer day in quebec, georges et moi a la compagne. 

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toptumbles:

Lion Love

i could watch this forever

L'Impact obtient Gienir Garcia des Whitecaps | Montreal Impact

The top 31 at McNally Jackson

Finally a list with books I’ve read. Wonder if that’s because I get most of my reading suggestions from MnJ? Keep up the good work! 

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Toronto’s Glad Day Bookshop Put Up For Sale

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francorvl:

Chateau d’Chambord, France

Thanks for all the good b-day wishes. Lots of love from the Chateau (I wish). 

francorvl: Chateau d’Chambord, France Thanks for all the good b-day wishes. Lots of love from the Chateau (I wish). 

too serious. where’d we be without our hot mess hets for amusement? 

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Naheed Nenshi’s ill-timed book bonanza - The Globe and Mail

philiprappaport:

The mayor of Calgary just gets better and better. 

wwnorton:

The UPS man brought me my copy of Contents May Have Shifted tonight. I always forget what a heart-stopping moment that is, opening the package. Here is this gorgeous little rectangle (thank you for making such pretty pretty books W.W. Norton) and packed inside it is six years of work, countless hours, and countless hours put in by readers I trusted, and my wonderful editor Alane, and the copy editor and designers and proof readers. Thank you. Also packed in there are all my fears about getting it wrong, and a different set of fears about getting it right, and all the hope I sent it off to Alane with in that first version. How perfect that it arrived on the longest night of the year.

via Pam Houston

wwnorton: The UPS man brought me my copy of Contents May Have Shifted tonight. I always forget what a heart-stopping moment that is, opening the package. Here is this gorgeous little rectangle (thank you for making such pretty pretty books W.W. Norton) and packed inside it is six years of work, countless hours, and countless hours put in by readers I trusted, and my wonderful editor Alane, and the copy editor and designers and proof readers. Thank you. Also packed in there are all my fears about getting it wrong, and a different set of fears about getting it right, and all the hope I sent it off to Alane with in that first version. How perfect that it arrived on the longest night of the year. via Pam Houston

When you’re tempted…cuddle instead.

ryangoslingpublishing:

Submitted by Michelle

When you’re tempted…cuddle instead. ryangoslingpublishing: Submitted by Michelle

fuckyeahshadowcat:

madnessandsmiles:

It needs to be known that there is a Jewish superhero celebration each year on Christmas where they all eat Chinese food together.

This is beautiful and I adore this. Can we get Kate Kane from DC aka Batwoman to make a guest appearance? Also, I love that Moon Knight is trying to make this a JDate event. You go, Moon Knight.

fuckyeahshadowcat: madnessandsmiles: It needs to be known that there is a Jewish superhero celebration each year on Christmas where they all eat Chinese food together. This is beautiful and I adore this. Can we get Kate Kane from DC aka Batwoman to make a guest appearance? Also, I love that Moon Knight is trying to make this a JDate event. You go, Moon Knight.

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Half Termite, Half Elephant

lareviewofbooks:

MARK HASKELL SMITH

on Jonathan Lethem’s The Ecstasy of Influence.
Persistance of Memory © Lou Beach

Jonathan Lethem
The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc.
Doubleday, November 2011. 480 pp.

Jonathan Lethem’s The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. is a one-man omnibus, and you’re either on it or you’re not.

A shotgun blast of multitentacled musings, it splatters the author’s obsessions across the cultural landscape in a kind of frenzied bookworm exuberance. There are dozens of essays. Essays on science fiction conventions and John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (as it relates to postmodernism). On actor Donald Sutherland’s buttocks (as they relate to the author’s sexuality), teenage boys, nude models, and Lethem’s mixed feelings about his success. On the urgent need to take a shit while on book tour and the “eternal intertextuality of cultural participation.” There are previously published reviews and rambles on 9/11, James Brown, Bob Dylan, death scenes in Altman’s McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Norman Mailer, Spider-Man, and Roberto Bolaño, among others. Lethem even dusts off some of his early short stories, experimental fiction, and poetry.

Unlike a greatest hits collection — such as the Buzzcocks’ Singles Going Steady or The Greatest Hits … So Far!!! by Pink, or even Geoff Dyer’s (albeit excellent) collection of essays Otherwise Known as the Human Condition — Lethem isn’t just dumping a bunch of prepublished material between the covers and calling it a day. He may dabble in “nonfictions,” but at heart he’s a novelist and can’t resist the novelist’s impulse to craft a narrative.

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It’ Time—enjoy the video 

letmypeopleshow:

Everything is Illuminated:

A dog chases a hare amidst a profusion of fantastical creatures and Gothic forms in the grammatical treatise that accompanies the Cervera Bible, a masterpiece of illumination made in Spain from 1299-1300.

The Bible is on loan from Lisbon’s National Library to the Metropolitan of Art, joining two other medieval Hebrew Bibles also on loan—one from Germany in the medieval department, and another from Spain in the newly inaugurated space for Art of the Arab Lands. This apparently unprecedented circumstance reflects, in part, the museum’s increasing effort to include Jewish objects in the narrative of art history its permanent-collection galleries tell.

Scholars are divided over whether animals in hunt scenes like this one had a symbolic meaning for Jews in Spain—of persecution or escape, for example—or whether they were purely decorative. “Sometimes a crossbow is just a crossbow,” one curator told me. So what about the dragons? 

Read more in my new article in Tablet.

letmypeopleshow: Everything is Illuminated: A dog chases a hare amidst a profusion of fantastical creatures and Gothic forms in the grammatical treatise that accompanies the Cervera Bible, a masterpiece of illumination made in Spain from 1299-1300. The Bible is on loan from Lisbon’s National Library to the Metropolitan of Art, joining two other medieval Hebrew Bibles also on loan—one from Germany in the medieval department, and another from Spain in the newly inaugurated space for Art of the Arab Lands. This apparently unprecedented circumstance reflects, in part, the museum’s increasing effort to include Jewish objects in the narrative of art history its permanent-collection galleries tell. Scholars are divided over whether animals in hunt scenes like this one had a symbolic meaning for Jews in Spain—of persecution or escape, for example—or whether they were purely decorative. “Sometimes a crossbow is just a crossbow,” one curator told me. So what about the dragons?  Read more in my new article in Tablet.