I Know You Are But What Am I

Author : Heather Birrell
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770561090

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I Know You Are But What Am I? by Heather Birrell Pdf

'Birrell has a grand eye for the small detail that is the hallmark of a well-made story.' -- The Toronto Star Kleptomaniacs, convicts, roof-walkers and homicidal hippies: populated as they are with lives both ordinary and extraordinary, Heather Birrell's stories pull at the sinews of the strange until the strangeness shapes itself into something familiar. At the same time, they mould the day-to-day into something new and wholly unexpected. Oldrick must come to terms with his ex-girlfriend's new lover and a belligerent barista in the midst of a smelly garbage strike. Young Misha learns about the complexities of grownup love when his mother is bitten by a stingray. Home-schooled Rational gets a tutor and learns that his 'hunker in the bunker' family isn't quite what he thought it was, and bus-bound Marion, in love with a married man, finds solace in conversation with a convict. The stories in I know you are but what am I? are like snow domes – perfect little self-contained worlds that you can hold in your hand, turn upside down, shake until the meaning settles in a hundred different ways. Here are children and adults, men and women, all struggling to define themselves, all searching for ways to belong. This is a lucid, dextrous collection that marks the ascension of a writer to watch. Heather Birrell's stories have been shortlisted for both the Western and National Magazine Awards and have appeared in numerous Canadian literary journals. A frequent book reviewer and winner of the Journey Prize, she also works as a high school teacher and a creative writing instructor.

Author : Samantha Bee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439142745

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I Know I Am, But What Are You? by Samantha Bee Pdf

A Daily Show correspondent turns her unique wit on herself, discussing what it was like to be raised by a Wiccan mother, her parents' uncomfortable sex talks, all the strange jobs she had on the road to The Daily Show and much more.

Author : Ali Sands
Publisher : Thomas Noble Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1945586206

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I Know Who You Are But What Am I? by Ali Sands Pdf

What does it mean for a partner if the person they love changes their sex?With a refreshing voice of raw honesty and vulnerability, Ali Sands journaled her search for identity as her partner physically transitioned from female to male. Beginning with the awareness that her partner is transgender, through hormone therapy and multiple surgeries, Ali and her partner experienced many physical and emotional changes.In this courageous and gripping memoir, Ali shares her experiences as she navigates her partner's transition. Holding strong to her love for her partner and her belief in her own truths, Ali persevered through family rejection and found that chosen family supported her journey. She also grew an enduring love and power found in committing to an ever- changing relationship.A poignant and searching account of a brave woman who almost lost her own identity even as she helped the love of her life establish his. -Ira Wood, The Lowdown, WOMR-FMSands' story is...[an] unflinching view into the rollercoaster of a rapidly changing relationship. Sands spares no detail, from weekly testosterone injections to reconstructive surgeries to her own emotional challenges as [her partner] begins to navigate the world as a man. -Sofia Starmack, Journalist, Provincetown BannerHers is a lesson for all of us who are lucky enough to look back at love and its evolution with our partners. A skilled storyteller, Ali has the ability to tell an intimate personal tale in a way that has global relevance. -Ian Edwards, Producer, TEDx Provincetown

Author : Laura Broadbent
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781770564862

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In on the Great Joke by Laura Broadbent Pdf

What do you get when you cross Lao Tzu and an application for a university teaching application? What do you get when you give W. G. Sebald and Clarice Lispector the ability to speak from the afterlife? What happens if a girl is stopped at a red light for an entire year? In on the Great Joke is a palace of hybridity, where film structure informs poetry, poetry alters the essay, the essay recalibrates the joke. Broadbent has lent her ear to the dead, the living, the voiceless, to give us the punchline of what it means to be intellectually alive. Laura Broadbent is the author of Oh There You Are I Can't See You Is It Raining?, which won the 2012 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. She lives in Montreal, Queceb, where she is working on her PhD in Literature.

Author : Joshua Gunn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Communication
ISBN : 9780226713441

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Political Perversion by Joshua Gunn Pdf

"When Trump became president, much of the country was repelled by what they saw as the vulgar spectacle of his ascent, the perversion of the highest office in the land. In his bold, groundbreaking book Political Perversion, rhetorician Joshua Gunn argues that this "mean-spirited turn" in American politics (of which Trump is the paragon) is best understood as a structural perversion enhanced primarily by the speed of communication technologies. Drawing on insights from critical theory, media ecology, and psychoanalysis, Gunn argues that perverse rhetorics dominate not only the political sphere but also our daily interactions with others, in person and online. From sexting to campaign rhetoric, Gunn shows how technology has changed our ways of relating (and not relating) to others and has engendered infantile and sadistic forms of provocation and enjoyment. In this book, Trump is only the tip of a sinister, rapidly growing iceberg, one to which we ourselves unwittingly contribute on a daily basis"--

Author : Margaret Christakos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131620598

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What Stirs by Margaret Christakos Pdf

"What is it to feel attached and what is it to be free? Is contemporary love a reasonable desire or a whacked-out addiction? How many sippy-cup lattes have you had today, anyway?" "Both playful and probing, What Stirs looks at our primal appetite for human attachment in a postmodern digital era where the tenderness of the individual is both exposed and easily masqueraded by the brazen and wary stirrings of virtual identity. In this new collection, Margaret Christakos accretes the ecstatic reach of lyric poetry, and her abiding curiosities about subjective excess and procedural poetic composition into a uniquely wakeful field of linguistic, acoustic and narrative pleasure."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : David Balzer
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781770563872

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Curationism by David Balzer Pdf

"Now that we ‘curate’ even lunch, what happens to the role of the connoisseur in contemporary culture? ‘Curate’ is now a buzzword applied to everything from music festivals to artisanal cheese. Inside the art world, the curator reigns supreme, acting as the face of high-profile group shows and biennials in a way that can eclipse and assimilate the contributions of individual artists. At the same time, curatorial studies programs continue to grow in popularity, and businesses are increasingly adopting curation as a means of adding value to content and courting demographics. Everyone, it seems, is a now a curator. But what is a curator, exactly? And what does the explosive popularity of curating say about our culture’s relationship with taste, labour and the avant-garde? In this incisive and original study, critic David Balzer travels through art history and around the globe to explore the cult of curation – where it began, how it came to dominate museums and galleries, and how it was co-opted at the turn of the millennium as the dominant mode of organizing and giving value to content. At the centre of the book is a paradox: curation is institutionalized and expertise-driven like never before, yet the first independent curators were not formally trained, and any act of choosing has become ‘curating.’ Is the professional curator an oxymoron? Has curation reached a sort of endgame, where its widespread fetishization has led to its own demise? David Balzer has contributed to publications including the Believer, Modern Painters, Artforum.com, and The Globe and Mail, and is the author of Contrivances, a short-fiction collection. He is currently Associate Editor at Canadian Art magazine. Balzer was born in Winnipeg and currently resides in Toronto, where he makes a living as a critic, editor and teacher.

Author : Heather Birrell
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770563155

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Mad Hope by Heather Birrell Pdf

In the stories of Mad Hope, Heather Birrell finds the heart of her characters and lets them lead us into worlds both unrecognizable and alarming. We think we know these people but discover we don't—they are more alive, more real, and more complex than we first imagined. A high school science teacher is forced to re-examine the role he played in Nicolae Ceausescu's Romania after a student makes a shocking request. The uncertainty, anxiety, and anticipation of pregnancy are examined through an online chat group. Parenting is viewed from the perspective of a gay man caring for his friend and her adopted son. A tragic plane crash becomes the basis for a meditation on motherhood and its discontents. Birrell uses precise, inventive language to capture the beautiful mess of being human—and more than lives up to her Journey Prize accolades. Her characters come to greet us, undo us, make us yearn, and make us smile. Heather Birrell is the author of the story collection I know you are but what am I? Her work has been honored with the prestigious Journey Prize for short fiction and the Edna Staebler Award for creative nonfiction.

Author : Charles Reade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : English fiction
ISBN : BSB:BSB10748499

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Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade Pdf

Author : Matthew Tierney
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781770560918

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The Hayflick Limit by Matthew Tierney Pdf

To be human is to cope with knowing. In the early 1960s, Leonard Hayflick determined that healthy cells can divide only a finite number of times. Known as the Hayflick Limit, it sets an unsurpassable lifespan for our species at just over 120 years. Shifting focus between the limits of the microscope and the limits of the telescope, Matthew Tierney gives voice to a range of characters who scrape out meaning in a carnivalesque universe, one that has birthed black holes and Warner Bros. cartoons, murky market economies, murkier quantum laws, Vincent Price, Molotov cocktails, seedless grapes, Area 51 and competing Theories of Everything.

Author : David Turgeon
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770565715

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The Supreme Orchestra by David Turgeon Pdf

We know how Simone met the man who will become, for a time, her fourth husband. We know what she does (artist), her age (older than she looks), her friends (a veritable menagerie), her habits (frustrated homebody). What remains to learn are the things she still doesn't fully understand herself, like her role in the affair of the Port Merveille diamond, also known as the Supreme Orchestra. The Supreme Orchestra is many things at once: a geopolitical thriller, an art-world exposé, a digressive social study, a mischievous parody. In the line of master ironists like Walser and Nabokov, with a comic timing reminiscent of Hergé and a Flaubertian infatuation with le mot juste, David Turgeon has created an oeuvre like no other in Quebec’s fertile literary scene.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Railroads
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026241997

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Railway Signal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tessa Kale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2424 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015067701568

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The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Anthologies by Tessa Kale Pdf

Features 85,000 classic and contemporary poems by 12,000 poets. This work covers such anthologies as "The Oxford Anthology of African American Poetry"; "The Oxford Book of American Poetry"; "The New Anthology of American Poetry", "The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry"; and "The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature."

Author : Norman Macleod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555031122

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Good words, ed. by N. Macleod by Norman Macleod Pdf

Author : Cyrille Martinez
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770566224

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The Dark Library by Cyrille Martinez Pdf

Libraries are magical places. But what if they’re even more magical than we know? In Cyrille Martinez’s library, the books are alive: not just their ideas or their stories, but the books themselves. Meet the Angry Young Book, who has strong opinions about who reads what and why. He’s tired of people reading bestsellers, so he places himself on the desks of those who might appreciate him. Meet the Old Historian who mysteriously vanished from the stacks. Meet the Blue Librarian, the Mauve Librarian, the Yellow Librarian, and spend a day with the Red Librarian trying to banish coffee cups and laptops. Then one day there are no empty desks anywhere in the Great Library. A great horde of student workers has descended, and they will scan every single book in the library: the much-borrowed, the neglected, the popular, the obscure. What will happen to the library then? Will it still be necessary? The Dark Library is a theoretical fiction, a meditation on what libraries mean in our digital world. Has the act of reading changed? What is a reader? A book? Martinez, a librarian himself, has written a love letter to the urban forest of the dark, wild library, where ideas and stories roam free.