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The Toronto Book Awards were established by City Council in 1974, and have honoured Torontoish books of literary or artistic merit ever since. The Awards Committee, Camilla Holland, Brian Jantzi, Winona McMorrow, Sarah Rotering and Herman Silochan, recently announced this year’s nominations. Your 2007 shortlist is:

If, as Geoffrey James claimed, Toronto is a "jolie laide" (a pretty, ugly woman), then we've got a photo exhibit that might just epitomize our city.

Between July 2003 and January 2006, photographer Geoffrey James took his panoramic camera across our city, taking shots of areas as diverse as High Park, Dundas Square, Kensington Market, Regent Park, and Liberty Village. Those photographs are collected in his newly-released book, Toronto, and the shots tell a story of a city in flux, both confident in its history and insecure about where it's headed. Besides photographs, Toronto also features an expansive introduction by Mark Kingwell and a surprisingly entertaining Notes section (no, really).

We've got an invite to pass along for a launch party, exhibit, and book signing for photographer Geoffrey James' newest effort, Toronto, on Thursday night. James has travelled around the city taking shots of some of the underappreciated places in the city with his wide-angle panoramic camera. Torontoist's favourite local philosopher, Mark Kingwell, provides the introduction.

Torontoist, as previously mentioned, was not at all plussed by OCAD's adventures in art selling. In fact, we'd even venture to say we were nonplussed. But this other school is pulling a similar trick, and well, fool us once, fool us twice, we think it looks good. The Ryerson Gallery's Holday Show and Sale ends December 8th, but until then you can view and bid on works by Geoffrey James, Ruth Kaplan and others. You can also bid on disposable cams with images shot by folks like CBC's amusingly-voiced Jane Farrow. Why you would do this, we don't know. Oh yes, to support Ryerson. Torontoist has long been trying to move from the "I'm a Ginus" phase of our life to the "Hotel Art" phase of our life, so this would be an ambitious step in the general direction. Ryerson Gallery is at 80 Spadina.