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It's Winnipeg vs. Transcona!
McNally Robinson Booksellers presents the launch of two highly anticipated new books from Manitoba authors with a special event at Winnipeg institution Salisbury House.
Guy Maddin will launch My Winnipeg, the ridiculously entertaining book companion to his latest film. When the iconoclastic auteur of The Saddest Music in the World and Brand Upon the Brain! decided to tackle the subject of his hometown, it could only have become a ‘docufantasia,’ a mélange of personal history, civic tragedy and mystical hypothesizing. The book ventures deeper into the mind of Maddin with the text of the film’s narration, wantonly annotated with an avalanche of marginal digressions, stills, outtakes, family photos, emails, animations, notebook pages and collages. There’s even an X-ray of Spanky the pug and an in-depth interview between Guy Maddin and Michael Ondaatje.
‘If you love movies in the very sines of your imagination, you should experience the work of Guy Maddin … he rewrites history; when that fails, he creates it.’ – Roger Ebert
Jon Paul Fiorentino will launch his debut novel, Stripmalling -- the story of one young man’s embarrassing and hilarious journey to literary awareness. Jonny lives and works in a strip mall in Transcona. For some people, this would be an exciting and fulfilling life. But Jonny has a dream: he wants to be a writer. He has almost everything he needs to make this dream come true: a supportive girlfriend, an active imagination, and an abundance of subject matter. There is only one obstacle: his own relentless stupidity. Part journal, part comedy routine, and part graphic novel, Stripmalling is a unique experiment in genre and voice that is ambitious, accessible and laugh-out-loud funny.
'Stripmalling is the first novel by poet Jon Paul Fiorentino, and a very funny one it is. . . . Amid the hilarious scenes that make up Stripmalling — gas-station hot-boxing, desperate ploys for sex, moderate success in the writing world — Fiorentino produces peaks of warmth and true sadness.' – Globe and Mail
