Tucked away on Toronto’s historic bpNichol Lane, Coach House Books has been publishing and printing high-quality innovative fiction and poetry since 1965. Coach House is Canada’s most venerable literary press and has, during the past forty years, published books by Michael Ondaatje, George Bowering, bpNichol, Nicole Brossard, Christian Bök, Guy Maddin, Steve McCaffery, Gail Scott, Jonathan Goldstein, Anne Michaels, Michael Redhill and hundreds of others. A refuge for the refined, an asylum for the aesthete, a sanctuary for the scribe.
The marketing brain trust at Coach House have decided to feature one title per month in this space. In July, we spotlight Claudia Dey's debut novel, currently shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award: Stunt. The Toronto Star said 'this surrealist coming-of-age novel -- a shot of Catcher in the Rye with a One Hundred Years of Solitude chaser -- is the perfect vehicle for Dey's caustic wit and trenchant observations ... It's as if poet Anne Carson and satirist Mordecai Richler accidentally collided at a drunken PEN fundraiser to produce a mischievous, magical and observant girl-child.'
Read an excerpt from Stunt (below), read an interview with the author, watch Claudia Dey interview Rex Harrington at Open Book Toronto, or take a look at some of Dey's otherwork.
During the month of July, you can purchase Stunt from the Coach House website for 25% off the cover price! What are you waiting for?
Ideological hegemonies are met with imaginative verve ... unconventional in most every way, (beginning with the inclusion of the poet's name in the title, to the back cover title My Fidelity Is My Own Disaster), Magenta Soul Whip breaks linguistic bonds, resisting, improvising and reinventing a relationship with language and the world. (Jennifer Still, Winnipeg Free Press)
Coach House founder and 'head coach' Stan Bevington has been appointed to the Order of Canada!
On July 1 (Canada Day), Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, announced 60 new appointments to the Order of Canada. Stan Bevington, master printer and literary publishing champion, was among the appointees – a list which also includes hockey legend Wayne Gretzky, theatre artist Robert Lepage, broadcaster Jay Ingram and the man behind the Giller Prize, Jack Rabinovitch, among others.
Congratulations to Anton Piatigorsky and Crow's Theatre, recipients of four Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Eternal Hydra. The play's honours, which were presented at a June 29 gala, are for outstanding production, new play (Anton Piatigorsky), direction (Chris Abraham) and lighting design (John Thompson).
Claudia Dey (Stunt), RM Vaughan (Troubled) and Cordelia Strube (Lemon, forthcoming) are among 38 Canadians who share what their country means to them in a Canada Day special from CBC News.
RM Vaughan's contribution just might be the most immediately identifiable with Toronto residents:
Love lemurs? Ligers? Llamas? Lhasa Apsos? Fall to pieces for fuzzy creatures? Then this commitment is for you! Stop watching that puppy cam and listen up! For a measly $60, including all shipping and taxes, get four of our favourite animal titles. Shake a claw with Crabwise to the Hounds. Peck away at the Milk Chicken Bomb. Howl with joy while reading Lemon Hound.
Toronto plays itself in these four great novels. From the ravines to the Island and Kensington Market, you'll be amazed at the places you'll go while reading The City Man, by Howard Akler, Stunt, by Claudia Dey, Girls Fall Down, by Maggie Helwig and Your Secrets Sleep With Me, by Darren O'Donnell.
July's featured title: Stunt
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