Excerpt: Just a Lazy, Skull-Boiling Afternoon
"A pig’s head, in case you are not aware, has eyes and eyelashes and teeth and a nose—all the makings of a face."
An excerpt from Jonah Campbell's Eaten Back to Life (Invisible Publishing, 2017).
Take Home an Original is a live auction of eighty original illustrations from Canadian picture books that will be held at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts on Tuesday, October 16th.
The event is preceded by a five-week exhibition of the illustrations September 14th to October 14th, and there are workshops and other family activities on weekends. This exhibit is the first by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to honour the art of children's picture books. Half of the donated art was created by Quebec illustrators, and proceeds from the auction go to the Canadian Children's Book Centre.
For more detailed information and images you can check out the CCBC website here and contact: Holly Kent 416 975-0010 ext. 221, holly@bookcentre.ca;
In Quebec: Chantal Vaillancourt 514-272-9608, cjmvaillancourt@yahoo.com
"A pig’s head, in case you are not aware, has eyes and eyelashes and teeth and a nose—all the makings of a face."
An excerpt from Jonah Campbell's Eaten Back to Life (Invisible Publishing, 2017).
The meal consists of Le Grand Aïoli, breads and cheeses from Kamouraska, and a perfect strawberry tart. The wine is pale, nuanced, and perfect. The company is lively. Fun!
-- with July postscript from the New York Times.
Our recent title, Where They Stood: The Evolution of the Black Anglo Community in Montreal, came about thanks to a phone call from the Black Community Resource Centre.
The best stories I have ever read about Montreal are the Linnet Muir stories that appeared in The New Yorker in 1978 and 1979. Set mostly in wartime Montreal, the stories dip back into the more distant past of Linnet Muir’s—and Mavis Gallant’s own—childhood memories of Montreal in the 1920s.