Letter from San Francisco: The Espresso Book Machine, by Guy Tiphane
Today it is possible to walk in the bookstore and ask for a book to be printed and bound as you wait. The machine is also a powerful tool for authors to create and sell books.

Check out Toula's conversation on Radio Noon Quebec with Shawn Apel about why it is so hard to have a conversation about asylum seekers. Listen here
Seeking Asylum: Building a Shareable World
Toula Drimonis
March 2024
$21.95 | ISBN: 9781773901527
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The author of the 2022 bestseller We, the Others, Toula Drimonis is a Montreal-based opinion columnist, writer and news producer. A former news director for TC Media, she has reported and written on politics, social justice, and women's issues for national and international publications. She has worked in television, radio, and print in all three of her languages, and has appeared on TV as both panelist and contributor to English and French-language current-affairs and cultural news shows. [Photo: John Kenney]
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Today it is possible to walk in the bookstore and ask for a book to be printed and bound as you wait. The machine is also a powerful tool for authors to create and sell books.

Why are so many people looking kawaii up in the dictionary? And are they the same people who are looking up get?

When Raboy passed
the torch to the audience, a young woman went up to the microphone to ask
Vidal, “What is the most important thing in life for you?”
Vidal thought for a moment before saying a single word, “Anaesthetic.”
Anaesthetic there had been and anaesthetic there would be.

Is there a way of bottling the good reviews? Steeping them in brine? Or, given the wintry day, flash-freezing them so that there they'll be ready to cheer me up all over again another day?
Photo: Linda Leith