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2022., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: 814.54 A887b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes an brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions such as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? How can we live on our planet? Is it true? And is it fair? What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism? In over fifty pieces Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. This roller-coaster period brought the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump, and a pandemic. From debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom; from when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) to how to define granola, we have no better guide to the many and varied mysteries of our universe.
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2020., Guernica Editions Call No: QWF 780.9 W328d Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Essential essays series Volume: 73.Summary Note: "Dervish at the Crossroads isn't a music guide so much as an autobiographical exploration of the experience of music from 2000 to 2020, with commentary on what makes the experience of music during these two decades radically different from all that came before. As the title of the book implies, due to the unique conditions of our time we can no longer think of ourselves as points on a series of evolutions; we're now much more present to all of music, from the beginning of written and recorded music, all of which turns around us like spokes on a wheel. This grants us a unique vantage point from which to appreciate music in itself. The book alternates text with a comics and infographics detailing the history of the author's discoveries as a music journalist during this time, along with personal experiences and ruminations and interviews."--
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By Homel, David2023., Linda Leith Publishing Call No: NEW QWF Bio H Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Award-winning author David Homel mixes memoir and fiction, truth and make-believe in these meditations on his youth in Chicago, his education, and the influences that led to his career as a writer.
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2014., Adult, Goose Lane Editions Call No: 819.4608 C591m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: There isn't a mother who hasn't thought of herself as stationed far outside maternity's central zone--that imaginary place where all the babies are cooing, bananas are never bruised, and every woman is comfortable enough in her own skin to disregard a magazine's blaring provocation: Are You Mom Enough? In this original and sometimes provocative collection of essays, Saleema Nawaz, Alison Pick, Nancy Jo Cullen, Carrie Snyder, and many others explore the boundaries of contemporary motherhood. There are the women who have had too many children or not enough. There are women for whom motherhood is a fork in the road, encountered with contradictory emotions. And there are those who have made the conscious choice not to have children and then find themselves defined by that decision. Here some of Canada's best writers face down motherhood from the other side of the picket fence. The M Word. It means something to every woman. Exactly what it means is rarely simple. -- Provided by publisher.
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2015., Adult, NeWest Press Call No: IND 819.454 M298m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Writer as critic Volume: 13
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-- One day we will all be dead and none of this will matter2017., General, Doubleday Canada Call No: 971.004 K88o Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A debut collection of essays about growing up the daughter of Indian immigrants in Canada, "a land of ice and casual racism," addressing sexism, cultural stereotypes and the universal miseries of life by the irreverent, hilarious and incomparable rising star and cultural observer, Scaachi Koul. In suburban Calgary, at a young and impressionable age, Scaachi Koul learned what made her miserable. Not just uncomfortable, not just mild irritants, not just the long commute you have in the morning: things that make you doubt your humanity. And it turns out, everything did. Scaachi shares her observations, fears and experiences as a woman of colour growing up in Canada. Stories ranging from shaving her knuckles in grade school, to a shopping trip gone horribly awry, to internet garbage, to parsing the trajectory of fears and anxieties that pressed upon her immigrated parents and bled down a generation. Stories of returning to India where her parents grew up, and ultimately about trying to find her place in the world. Scaachi explores the absurdity of a life and culture steeped in misery through these intimate, wise and funny dispatches. Scaachi was born in Calgary and now lives in Toronto. She is a senior writer at BuzzFeed.com. Visit her website at scaachi.com"--Provided by publisher.
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2022., Biblioasis Click to access digital title. Sample Summary Note: A journalist and folklorist explores the truths that underlie the stories we imagine—and reveals the magic in the everyday. "I've always felt that the term fairy tale doesn't quite capture the essence of these stories," writes Emily Urquhart. "I prefer the term wonder tale, which is Irish in origin, for its suggestion of awe coupled with narrative. In a way, this is most of our stories." In this startlingly original essay collection, Urquhart reveals the truths that underlie our imaginings: what we see in our heads when we read, how the sight of a ghost can heal, how the entrance to the underworld can be glimpsed in an oil painting or a winter storm—or the onset of a loved one's dementia. In essays on death and dying, pregnancy and prenatal genetics, radioactivity, chimeras, cottagers, and plague, Ordinary Wonder Tales reveals the essential truth: if you let yourself look closely, there is magic in the everyday.
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2022., Adult, Biblioasis Call No: 814.6 U79o Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A journalist and folklorist explores the truths that underlie the stories we imagine and reveals the magic in the everyday. "I've always felt that the term fairy tale doesn't quite capture the essence of these stories," writes Emily Urquhart. "I prefer the term wonder tale, which is Irish in origin, for its suggestion of awe coupled with narrative. In a way, this is most of our stories." In this startlingly original essay collection, Urquhart reveals the truths that underlie our imaginings: what we see in our heads when we read, how the sight of a ghost can heal, how the entrance to the underworld can be glimpsed in an oil painting or a winter storm-nor the onset of a loved one's dementia. In essays on death and dying, pregnancy and prenatal genetics, psychics, chimeras, cottagers, and plague, Ordinary Wonder Tales reveals the essential truth: if you let yourself look closely, there is magic in the everyday.
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2022., Adult, ECW Press Call No: NEW QWF 818.54 S997q Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: ""One function of the poet at any time is to discover by his own thought and feeling what seems to him to be poetry at that time," writes Wallace Stevens. In Quiet Night Think, award-winning poet Gillian Sze expresses her own definition. During the remarkable period of early parenthood, Sze's new maternal role urges her to contemplate her own origins, both familial and artistic. Comprised of six personal essays, poems, and a concluding long poem, Quiet Night Think takes its title from a direct translation of an eighth-century Chinese poem by Li Bai, the subject of the opening essay. Sze's memory of reading Li Bai's poem as a child marks the beginning of an unshakable encounter with poetry. What follows is an intimate anatomization of her particular entanglement with languages and cultures. In her most generically diverse book yet, Sze moves between poetry and prose, mother and writer, the lyrical and the autobiographical, all the while inviting readers to meditate with her on questions of emergence and transformation: What are you trying to be? Where does a word break off? What calls to us throughout the night?"-- Provided by publisher.
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-- Raise you five :2005., General, McArthur Call No: 814.54 C156r Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Novelist and poet Barry Callaghan is one of Canada's great journalists. In this first of three volumes, Callaghan has collected essays about the most complex ideas, rendered in a prose of utter ease and clarity.
