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{"id":6814254235707,"title":"Passing Ceremony","handle":"passing-ceremony","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe brilliant debut novel by Helen Weinzweig, one of the first feminist writers in Canada and the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBasic Black With Pearls\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Helen Weinzweig’s brilliant debut novel, a wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. The bride is not all she seems and there is something ambiguous about the groom — and just about everyone else at the surreal and strangely moving wedding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike a piece of music, \u003ci\u003ePassing Ceremony\u003c\/i\u003e is composed of brief, suggestive fragments that grow into a tightly integrated whole. There are bits of real and imagined conversation; polite dialogues that slide into mad comic banality; and scenes that could be quiet nightmares out of Borges. 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Her novels have been taught and discussed in women’s studies courses across campuses. She was a highly regarded literary figure in the 1960s and 1970s; her works speak to the experiences of women who lived during that time, and her style and voice was groundbreaking.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eBasic Black with Pearls\u003c\/em\u003e by Helen Weinzweig will be published by the New York Review of Books in Fall 2017.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThe A List edition will feature an introduction by Jim Polk.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThis A List edition coincides with both the 150th anniversary of Canada’s confederation and the 50th anniversary of House of Anansi Press.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eYou sit there, father of the bride, you sit there straight and proud. In the middle of a middle row to the right of the aisle. How is it you are not in your rightful place, in the second pew to the left, beside the mother of the bride? It is your son Thomas who sits there in your stead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou are being examined: more eyes are on you than on your daughter repeating her vows.\nSpeculations. You are taking an awful risk being here. And if you had to bring your little dark wife, poor child, so young, why did you not dress her properly?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd as sensitive observers we should be registering your deeply moving feelings, or, at the very least, some sentimental reflections. You are being stubborn. We cannot read you. Give us something to go on: some memories, a few regrets. Alternatively, cogent theories on marriage gleaned from your vast studies: references to tribal customs would be acceptable. Yet nothing of literary interest comes through. No philosophies? We remember you as quite a philosopher, with a tendency to place mundane events in historical, usually ancient Greek, perspective. Surely, this is the very moment … ah … a passing thought: the groom appears to you as a man without bones, the kind whose flesh is as yielding as a woman’s; and the idea of those two softnesses copulating is disgusting to you. Too strong? Offensive, merely, then. That will have to do for now. Perhaps, later, at the reception, after a few drinks, we’ll get back to you.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eWeinzweig is considered one of the first feminist writers in Canada, \u003cem\u003ePassing Ceremony\u003c\/em\u003e was her debut novel. Her novels have been taught and discussed in women’s studies courses across campuses. 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Its form seems built from mysterious, unconscious forces . . . As a whole, the powerful novel resembles a shattered reflection in a mirror, each page a different-sized shard of a splintered psyche . . . There’s a reason people are returning to [Helen Weinzweig’s] work now. Her art was committed to unshackling us from the illusion of any form of certainty — to keeping the unknown, unknown.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. The bride is not all she seems and there is something ambiguous about the groom.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2017-08-26","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. The bride is not all she seems and there is something ambiguous about the groom.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Passing Ceremony
A wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. The bride is not all she seems and there is something ambiguous about the groom.
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But Max’s singular desire — to make his wife happy — leads to an unexpected event that changes the course of his family’s life and touches the people who make up their western prairie city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet over the course of a single year, \u003ci\u003eOnce More With Feeling\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of this city through intersecting moments and interconnected lives. The colourful citizens who make up the community are marked by transformation, upheaval, and loss: the worker at a downtown soup kitchen who recognizes a kindred spirit amongst the homeless; the aging sisters who everywhere see the fleeting ghosts of two missing neighbourhood children; a communal voice of mothers anxious for the future of their children in the discomfiting world they inhabit. Award-winning author Méira Cook has crafted a novel that is at once funny, poignant, and yes, full of feeling.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Miss Leonard volunteered all her free time to the Mission and consequently had a proprietary attitude. She called everyone folks: the old timers sipping coffee and playing checkers in the dining room, the born-agains who came for breakfast and stayed for Christ, the teenage boys with their wire hanger shoulder blades angling through their “Born to Rock” T-shirts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometimes a woman would sidle or shuffle or strut into the Mission, her gait keeping pace with her disposition; the coin tosses of bravado or despondency that saw her through her days. Singly, or in spindly little groups, the women would wait in line at the lunch counter, their hunger for food or companionship rendering them bold. And they were folks, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive or six men were idling outside the Mission when Annunciata arrived, a thin brown girl clutching at the balloon-string of her occasional buoyancy. 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He never smiled and seldom spoke, but when he was hungry he rapped out a shave and a shoeshine on the metal shutters of the kitchen window, and when he was feeling perky he did a soft shoe shuffle in the dust.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnnunciata stopped to watch and applaud. “Bravo!” she clapped. Mr. Um made jazz hands and blew her a purposeful kiss. He had a heavy, stumbling gait but a perfect pitch for imaginary music. “Nice weather we’re having,” Annunciata replied.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Pizza, chicken,” he confided. Something like that. But Annunciata thought he said “pizza,” and then some other kind of food. Possibly chicken. It was going on nine and she had to hustle to report for kitchen duty. So did.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Heavens, child, I’m glad we’re not waiting for you to make any big announcements,” said Miss Leonard when Annunciata came into the kitchen shrugging off her jacket and tying an apron around her waist. She meant the miracle of the Lord’s birth which, if she was an angel, Annunciata would have been in charge of. Sometimes Miss Leonard said, “Hallelujah, young lady!” and sometimes just, “Hurry, you!” but it was always to do with Annunciata being half a minute behindhand and two thousand years too late.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe novel is a departure from her previous works, both of which were set in South Africa, her home country. 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Once More with Feeling
A look at the interconnected lives in one small prairie city, and how their relationships evolve over the course of a year.
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Is This the End of the Liberal International Order?
The twentieth semi-annual Munk Debate discusses the end of the liberal international order.
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There must be some solace in thinking your house will go on living apart from you, like an extension, a promise renewed no matter the hardships or failures, bestowing sudden meaning on sorrow. Personally, it's all a mystery to me since I have no desire to see others blossom where I once withered away — but then I'm not a very nice person.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eÉvelyne shows me the rest of her house: two children's bedrooms. In the first room, a cream-coloured quilt in a delicate pattern of pink and pale-green buttercups and peonies. A number of lively drawings on the walls, all signed SOLENE. In the second bedroom, blue and green stripes, dinosaur figurines, wood letters painted red hanging on the door: MATTEO. Évelyne was astute enough to keep the walls white. It won't be as difficult for potential buyers to project their own lives onto them — nothing is less helpful than a pink bedroom covered in princess decals for the morale of a mother with two sons who longs for the daughter she never had and hopes to find in her new abode the secret formula that will at last guarantee her the perfect family she's dreamt of since childhood. I respond to the client with all the solicitude I can muster, \u003cem\u003eWho knows, this house could be a lucky charm\u003c\/em\u003e, but when, guilt-ridden at having downplayed the worth of the children she does have, she grabs hold of my arm, \u003cem\u003eMy boys are wonderful, I love them so much, after all, what counts is that they're healthy, no? Do you have children?\u003c\/em\u003e and I answer, \u003cem\u003eYes, three boys,\u003c\/em\u003e for the space of a second, she's caught between wanting to be me and relief that she isn't. 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Hunting Houses
Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies meets Rachel Cusk’s The Lucky Ones in this astounding debut novel about a woman on the verge of infidelity.
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Set in the rugged South African wasteland, Fever is an epic story of survival and betrayal for fans of Station Eleven and The Road.
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In the fourth novel of the series, MacNeice and his team on the hunt for a sophisticated killer who draws his inspiration from classic works of art.
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Turtle Pond
A delightful tribute to turtles and turtle-watching, from a young child’s perspective.
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The Zombie Prince
An empowering story about how friendship and imagination can help overcome bullying, illustrated by Governor’s General Award–winner Luc Melanson.
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The Triumphant Tale of the House Sparrow
The extraordinary story of one of the most adaptable creatures on Earth.
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The Sisters Brothers (Movie Tie-In Edition)
A new edition to coincide with the release of the major motion picture adaptation starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix, and John C. Reilly.
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The corruption of the late sixties in Glasgow is splendidly evoked.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Daily Mail","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Intricately plotted, resourceful in its characterization, and gorgeously written.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“[Liam McIlvanney] shows a deft touch for character and setting throughout this absorbing, atmospheric read . . . 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The Quaker
A thriller set in gritty 1960s Glasgow featuring Detective Inspector Duncan McCormack on the hunt for a violent serial killer known as The Quaker.
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A jittery Scott Thompson darted in and out of the room, seeming to have misplaced something important, while Dave Foley offered me a warm handshake with one hand while nursing a soft drink in the other, having recently gone on the wagon. By this point, I had known the troupe for over thirty years, but while these five middle-aged men had long since outgrown their childlike name, very little else seemed to have changed about them since the day we met. While a sense of imminent fun hung over the backstage area, this was not a party; these men were about to go to work at the job they had created for themselves back on the streets of Toronto in the early 80s. As curtain time approached, Millan politely asked all visitors to clear the room and take their seats, affording me my first opportunity to get an unscientific read on the age demographics of the 2300 fans in the sold-out house. Surprisingly, it wasn’t all silver foxes like myself and it seemed to me that roughly half the house was comprised of millennials or younger, a large cross-section of these people hadn’t even been born when \u003cem\u003eThe Kids In The Hall\u003c\/em\u003e TV series was still on network television in the early 1990s, and it was entirely possible that, for many, this was their first time at a Kids In The Hall live show. As the house lights dimmed, a recording of Shadowy Men on A Shadowy Planet’s “Having An Average Weekend,” the official theme for the Kids’ TV series, echoed through the auditorium to cheers of instant recognition. The air was as electric as I was nostalgic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eTaking in the moment I realized that the Kids and I had come a long way, some 30 years and 2,634 miles (4239 km) to be precise, to get here. My mind raced back to Toronto in the winter of 1985, at the very show where I had first realized that maybe, just maybe, these guys had something special. As in all the best stories, it opens on a dark and stormy night, when an especially nasty blizzard was heaping obscene amounts of snow upon the city. TTC streetcars were backed up all along Queen Street and most major surface routes, and you couldn’t get a cab to save your life. Frankly, if you had nothing better to do, you were best advised to stay home under a blanket, preferably near a space heater.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eYet some of us brave comedy aficionados \u003cem\u003edid\u003c\/em\u003e have something better to do, we who had bravely trudged through six-foot snowdrifts, past cars that wouldn’t be dug out until morning, just to get to a tiny cabaret bar called The Rivoli, where a photocopied poster on a telephone pole out front beckoned, “Man The Laff Boats, it’s The Kids In The Hall.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eOnce safely inside the warm confines of the Riv, we bought our drinks from the bartender and talent booker, Carson, and took our seats just as Dave, Kevin, Bruce, Mark, and Scott commandeered two cramped but functional stages and went about the hilarious business of fulfilling their weekly residency. Besides the dreadful weather, the news that day had been dominated by a horrific Air India plane crash, and a kind of black cloud seemed to hang in the air above the city. Earlier that afternoon, the five Kids had huddled backstage to mull over whether they should even play the show at all, operating on the assumption that nobody would make it through the storm, or feel much like laughing if they did. Instead, they opted do the show anyway, for themselves, audience or not.\u003c\/p\u003e \n \u003cp\u003e “The show went on,” says McDonald, “and for some reason, this became the first night that we had a lineup around the block and even had to turn people away. After that night, we always had a great audience at the Rivoli.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe troupe had been honing their act for months, and I had been laughing along with their uniquely suburban takes on social justice, big city life, and institutional hypocrisy. Week after week, I had witnessed them creating fresh new material out of the ether, creating new characters and forging a unique comedy aesthetic, right before our eyes. While clearly informed by \u003cem\u003eMonty Python’s Flying Circus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSCTV\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSaturday Night Live\u003c\/em\u003e, their highly disruptive comedy that was as anarchic as any punk rock show playing in the neighbouring bars of the Queen Street strip. Sure they were all white males, but in the early 80s just having one of those white males be openly gay, and not always playing it for laughs, seemed revolutionary. While they played all the female roles themselves, it never seemed like a campy drag act, and their “ladies” were frequently the heroes of their scenes. While the name was already age inappropriate – even then, they were all in their early to mid-twenties -- it also announced them as perennial outsiders, the punks in the corridor, ready to break into the big room by any means necessary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eI had discovered them early on, and organically. After my younger brother, the sketch comedian and writer Mike Myers, had flourished at the Second City Theatre’s comedy workshops, I found myself following him to class and soon I too was learning the ways and history of improv comedy alongside my fellow students, Kevin and Dave. They said they had been doing shows and that I should come to see them. As fate would have it, my girlfriend at the time mentioned a comedy troupe she’d heard about that featured a fellow student from York University named Scott. Of course, all roads were leading us to The Rivoli, and as Toronto thawed out and warmed up, so too did the buzz around The Kids In The Hall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eEventually that buzz translated into a career in television and I became a regular member of the studio audience for their live tapings. Soon, our secret was out, and their name spread across the country and beyond. Just as \u003cem\u003eSCTV\u003c\/em\u003e had put Canadian comedy on the map, \u003cem\u003eThe Kids In The Hall\u003c\/em\u003e updated it and made it even cooler.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eAs they moved into film and theatre tours, various tensions within the troupe would at times threaten their fragile union, but like any thirty-year marriage, they have somehow made it work for three decades and as the curtain opened at Warfield in 2015, the marriage analogy is underlined by the sight of all five Kids in bridal gowns, symbolically re-affirming their vows via classic sketches, while offering new material, just as they had back in those chilly Rivoli days.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eAfter the show, Kevin made it clear to me that while these five strong willed individuals would probably always find something to fight over, but that this same tension was probably also the secret to their longevity. As with their fictional garage rock band in their beloved sketch, Rod Torfulson’s Armada featuring Herman Menderchuck, there were times in the Kids’ career when they questioned if they were going to make it, but judging by the heroes welcome they received in San Francisco, it was clear they had finally arrived (having eaten).\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eIt wasn’t easy, and it wasn’t always fun. As a troupe, they’ve often made risky artistic choices, and probably shot themselves in the foot more than once, all in the name of reaching a consensus, according to McDonald, the state of their union was as strong as ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e “I always say that, individually, we’re five smart guys, but together we add up to one dumb guy,” McDonald would later tell me during one of our many conversations for this book. “We create most of our own problems, then we're sad about it, but later on, we can see the humour in them. I think it helps us write better sketches.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThese pages constitute the inside story of how that One Dumb Guy would go on to write some of the funniest sketch comedy ever performed and inspire their peers and subsequent generations of sketch comedians to create programs such as\u003cem\u003e Mr. Show with Bob \u0026 David\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe State\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Ben Stiller Show\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePortlandia\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eKey \u0026 Peele\u003c\/em\u003e, and most recently, \u003cem\u003eThe Baroness Von Sketch Show\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eToday, the Kids In The Hall can still make me laugh whenever I see them or their work, and despite cheating death and worse, they’re still here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe story of just how they \u003cem\u003egot\u003c\/em\u003e here begins in earnest in the province of Alberta, when a young drunk punk named Bruce McCulloch met a well-traveled diplomat’s son named Mark McKinney. \u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH THE KIDS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eFeatures exclusive interviews with all five members of The Kids in the Hall: Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH COMEDY ROYALTY:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eFeatures exclusive interviews and tributes from comedy luminaries, including Lorne Michaels, Seth Meyers, Judd Apatow, Garry Shandling, Paul Feig, Mike Myers, David Cross, Michael Ian Black, Brent Butt, Jonah Ray, Dana Gould, Bob Odenkirk, Andy Richter, and Canada’s newest comedy sensation, Baroness Von Sketch.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMEDIA INVOLVEMENT:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eWe’re publishing simultaneously in North America, and we hope to be able to arrange for Paul and the Kids to do media, this will be confirmed closer to publication.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREUNION ON NETFLIX?:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eIn September 2017, news outlets reported that Lorne Michaels was in talks with Netflix to get the Kids back on TV in a Netflix original series (similar to what he’d done with Mr. Show). 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The Kids in the Hall
The definitive, authorized story of legendary sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.
