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We bet few of you have been to the Toronto Archives. We didn’t even know where it was until last night, when we attended theToronto Book Awards. But stepping into the foyer to be greeted by a room covered in photos and maps of our city’s history, it struck us at just how fitting it is to hold the ceremony here -- books honoured for their fluent portraits of Toronto stories in a building that houses the same.

Murmur, the green-eared audio art project that allows Torontonians to listen to neighbourhood stories through cellphones, goes literary and teams up with the City of Toronto Book Awards.

The finalists for the City of Toronto Book Awards have been announced. The biggest name of the bunch is Giller winner M.G. Vassanji for his short story collection When She Was Queen. We're also happy that former Tall Poppy subject Howard Akler has been nominated for his hard-boiled reporter meet sexy pickpocket love story set in 1930s Toronto and pleased that the brains behind uTOpia weren't forgotten.

, is the kinda book you can breeze through in a few hours. It's structured in modest little passages, which are footnoted/sidenoted with descriptive headings. The avant-garde structure was deemed frustrating by one reviewer, but TOist loved it.