Join us at Toronto’s inimitable “The Only Café” for the Toronto portion of Richard Rathwell’s “Jump the Devil” Book Launch Tour. Richard Rathwell will be reading. More dates will be announced soon!
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The Only Café, MAY 27, 2012, 5:00 P.M.972 Danforth Ave. TORONTO |
Join us at Paragraphe Bookstore in Downtown Montreal on June 6th. Meet and join Charles Talkoff, Richard Rathwell, James Cummins and Cameron W. Reed in a discussion of their latest works:
Wednesday, June 6, 6:00 pm, 2012.
Paragraphe Bookstore
2220 McGill College Avenue (corner of Sherbrooke Street).
Montreal, Canada
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In the finest tradition of William S. Burroughs and Thomas Pynchon, comes a strong American author writing in the great American paranoiac’s voice as every page busts forth with a wild and elusive prose that takes the reader on a wild ride where anything becomes a possibility. With The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover, Charles Talkoff combs the deepest fathoms of a paranoiac’s nightmares and brings back with him his vision and homage to the deeper, darker secrets of the human psyche in the post-9/11 world.
With Jump the Devil, Richard Rathwell has masterfully interwoven the plots of five seemingly unrelated storylines to create one coherent narrative that spans the globe and works to blend the seemingly mundane with the profound, deftly providing readers the necessary clues to unlocking the story. Transcending borders, cultures, generations, and social mores, Jump the Devil brings to life the notion of the global village as it exists in the 21st Century.
Authors James Cummins and Cameron W. Reed examine the predatory nature of short selling that is still prevalent within the financial industry today. What was originally intended to serve as a natural check on abuses within the stock market has itself become another method of manipulation for those with the necessary know-how. What seems innocently enough as capitalism and greed gone naturally wild in an environment of deregulation, soon appears as deliberate political maneuvering and close control on an international scale by agents and institutions operating above the law. The authors of The Midas Touch point out that this highly profitable, preferred method of professional swindlers world-wide has much more sinister repercussions than just clearing out 401(k)s – short selling was a contributing factor to the collapse of the US housing sector in 2007 that led to the global financial crisis begun in 2008 and has been the preferred fundraising methods of terrorist outfits worldwide. The Midas Touch speaks to the nature of this ongoing financial crisis we seem to be unable to extricate ourselves from and describes the ongoing problems that surround a financial sector that seems unwilling to change its business practices.
Jason Price Everett kicks off his Hypodrome tour with a "sneak preview" at the Argo Bookshop on May 10th in downtown Montreal.
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Darren C. Demaree's "Sparrow Bone" appears in the Pirene's Fountain - A Journal of Poetry.
Get the full poem at Pirene's Fountain.
Stay tuned for Darren's upcoming book from 8th House Publishing!
"Begin anywhere. Stop anywhere. Everything that can possibly be written now is a drop of rain upon its vast syncretic ocean... This future of our shared media Byzantium is obscenely bright."
148 pages. ISBN 978-1-926716-12-1 $18.88
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"In taking up the problematic elements of Heidegger’s reading, Catanu forwards a novel thesis: Heidegger’s attempt to systematize Nietzsche’s thought via a single idea (will to power) was well motivated but didn’t go far enough, as it lacked sufficient strength to render the entire Nietzschean corpus coherent. It is thus Catanu’s thesis that “Nietzsche’s philosophy can be explained entirely in terms of this concept [Becoming].
Presented firmly as a piece of Nietzsche scholarship, Catanu’s text addresses a large number of Nietzsche’s texts and varying Nietzsche interpreters from both the analytic and the continental traditions, as well as tackles Nietzsche’s relation to Aristotle, Plato, Heraclitus, Hegel, and Gadamer in some depth. The result is a remarkably rigorous and thorough text that pursues its goal with a singular focus."
- Justin Laleh © 2012, courtesy of The Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Vol 43, Spring 2012
Available until May 13. While quantities last.
Read the full article here.
Keep an eye out for an announcement on the launch of his novel, 'The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover" - coming very soon.
What happens when the gods of India voyage to the northwestern lands of the globe? In MAPLE VEDAS, K. Gandhar Chakravarty stages an impossible and irresistible migration: Vishnu, Shiva, Ganesha, and Kali stepping onto Canadian soil, encountering the flora and fauna of a world utterly alien to the subcontinent. A prophetic moose delivers oracles. A secretive walrus guards ancient knowledge. A charming groundhog mediates between worlds.
MAPLE VEDAS continues Chakravarty's project of fusing his twin inheritances — the mythic and spiritual depths of India with the fractured modernity of the Canadian landscape. These poems move between the cosmic and the comic, the sacred and the absurd, finding in the encounter between Eastern deities and Western wilderness a mirror for the immigrant experience itself. What does it mean to carry your gods with you across an ocean, and what happens when they meet the new world on its own terms?
For readers of KOLKATA DREAMS, MAPLE VEDAS represents the next chapter in Chakravarty's ongoing exploration of diaspora, spirituality, and the places where heaven and earth — East and West — meet and mix.
K. GANDHAR CHAKRAVARTY (Komal Gandhar), named after a beautiful Indian Raga, is a Canadian-born Bengali poet, musician, and theologian. Raised in a Bengali cultural atmosphere in Canada, he imbibed his heritage while also learning the culture of his adopted country. His work fuses his twin inheritances — the mythic and spiritual depths of India with the fractured modernity of the West — into poetry of rare musicality and spiritual urgency. His collections with 8th House include KOLKATA DREAMS and MAPLE VEDAS.
| ISBN: | 978-1-926716-05-3 pages | MAPLE VEDASBook DescriptionWhat happens when the gods of India voyage to the northwestern lands of the globe? In MAPLE VEDAS, K. Gandhar Chakravarty stages an impossible and irresistible migration: Vishnu, Shiva, Ganesha, and Kali stepping onto Canadian soil, encountering the flora and fauna of a world utterly alien to the subcontinent. A prophetic moose delivers oracles. A secretive walrus guards ancient knowledge. A charming groundhog mediates between worlds. MAPLE VEDAS continues Chakravarty's project of fusing his twin inheritances — the mythic and spiritual depths of India with the fractured modernity of the Canadian landscape. These poems move between the cosmic and the comic, the sacred and the absurd, finding in the encounter between Eastern deities and Western wilderness a mirror for the immigrant experience itself. What does it mean to carry your gods with you across an ocean, and what happens when they meet the new world on its own terms? For readers of KOLKATA DREAMS, MAPLE VEDAS represents the next chapter in Chakravarty's ongoing exploration of diaspora, spirituality, and the places where heaven and earth — East and West — meet and mix. Author BioK. GANDHAR CHAKRAVARTY (Komal Gandhar), named after a beautiful Indian Raga, is a Canadian-born Bengali poet, musician, and theologian. Raised in a Bengali cultural atmosphere in Canada, he imbibed his heritage while also learning the culture of his adopted country. His work fuses his twin inheritances — the mythic and spiritual depths of India with the fractured modernity of the West — into poetry of rare musicality and spiritual urgency. His collections with 8th House include KOLKATA DREAMS and MAPLE VEDAS. Book Details
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