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Toronto in Book Form

By Ron Nurwisah, Boy Reporter

2006_3_13longfor.gifYork U prof Amy Harris is the guest editor over at Reading Toronto this week and appropriately enough she’s been posting on novels set in Toronto. There are a few stalwarts on the list like Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion, Atwood’s Cat’s Eye and Michael’s Fugitive Pieces.
She also gives a plug to Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For, which TOist reviewed here and is now in paperback. One of the books she leaves out of the essential list but plugs in an earlier post is Darren O’Donnell’s Your Secrets Sleep with Me, also reviewed by TOist.
We also think that Harris should look into graphic novels/comics set in this city. M@B comes to mind but there must be a few dozen more out there on the web and in print form.

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  • http://www.newmindspace.com kevin bracken

    i was only on page 30 of your secrets sleep with me when i lost it on the spadina streetcar, never to be found again.
    the next week i lost my wallet on the same route, but it was found 10 minutes later. then i had to go over to connaught carhouse where they chewed my ear off for literally hours about streetcars. it was pretty neat at first, i guess, and i did get my wallet back.

  • http://ttcrider.ca sean lerner

    Check out Jim Munroe’s Flyboy Action Hero Comes with Gaskmask. Spawned from the ’90s zine scene.
    http://nomediakings.org/flyboy.htm

  • http://www.imaginingtoronto.com Amy Lavender Harris

    Coincidentally enough, I was thinking while writing up the Reading Toronto post that there were probably tons of graphic novels I had never seen, and would likely never come across unless other people suggested them. I (along with many others) would be very happy to hear any of your suggestions. I’ll check out M@B right away. Any others? Huh? Huh?
    By the way, I do mention Your Secrets Sleep With Me in an earlier post — the one about the CN Tower as Toronto’s tower of Babel. O’Donnell’s definitely a good read. So is Jim Murphy’s Flyboy — gritty and surreal at the same time. I like novels that bite right into the city.