Category Archives: Booklore

Entries and posts that relate to the creation or consumption of books

Three Business Cards

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Francois Lachance

ecosystem diversity second-hand book trade http://www.shesaidboom.ca/ https://twitter.com/shesaidboom http://www.sellersandnewel.com/ http://www.monkeyspaw.com/ different naming strategies: one after a short-story, one after song lyrics*, one after Peter Sellers and David Newel who run the shop** *It came from the first song from the second … Continue reading →

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In The Flesh

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Francois Lachance

I dreamt that Toronto hosted a Lesbian and Gay Book Fair. There was the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives and Art Metropole (a non-profit artist-run centre incorporated in 1974) and big publishing houses. There were of course readings and sessions … Continue reading →

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Book Mark Gateway

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Francois Lachance

A while back Doug Miller Books in Toronto put out some lovely book markers that depict characters from among the bookseller’s favourite works. From left to right Cat in the Hat Where the Wild Things Are The Beastly Baby Lyle, … Continue reading →

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Houses and Wares

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Some are registered through the Little Free Library Org. Some are autonomous. They are agents of circulation. Experiments in collective currating. This one located on Clinton Street in Toronto has a lively polka-dotted roof. Its side view offers an image … Continue reading →

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Ungodly Zero Devilish One

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Lionel Kearns. 1969. The Daylight Press. Vancouver, B.C. By the Light of the Silvery McLune: Media Parables, Poems, Signs, Gestures and Other Assaults on the Interface. which is rendered on the half-title page along the vertical by the light of … Continue reading →

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Ascribing We Will Go

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Either incipit and colophon, it came to me from my friend the translator and editor Diana Kuprel. A piece of ephemera in a package produced by the St. Michael’s College Press. Without attribution. Nicely set. A border of two destinies … Continue reading →

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Carrion Call

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Almost as if taken from a Parsi description of exposure in the Tower of Silence, Robert Bringhurst brings us to a new appreciation of feasting when he mediates upon the carcass of a dead fawn. In terms of meat, there … Continue reading →

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Varieties of Orgasmic Experience

Posted on May 8, 2010 by Francois Lachance

The book first appeared as Elements of a Coffee Service in 1982 and then when it was published by Ithuriel’s Spear, Robert Glück, the author, noted “We dropped of a Coffee Service from the original title of Elements: I got … Continue reading →

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Myth At Hand

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Ron Paulson “Crow Creek” in First Person Plural edited by Judith Fitzgerald. It is sharp. And wise. Recall doesn’t lead to nostalgia. It looks forward to the telling of the story. Here are the last three stanzas: There probably isn’t … Continue reading →

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Index Card Passport

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Francois Lachance

In green ink on an index card From The New Yorker Oct 6, 2003 p. 31 in the Auctions and Antiques section Art Deco posters of Paul Colin, whose works appear as part of a show of French Art Deco … Continue reading →

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