Category Archives: Booklore

Entries and posts that relate to the creation or consumption of books

Don McLeod Bookplate

Posted on August 2, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Highlighted in a story about acquisition of German magazine by University of Toronto: [10 May 1933] The date when much gay-themed literature was burned in bonfires in Berlin and elsewhere in Germany appears on a bookplate in a hardcover issue … Continue reading →

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Auspicious Beginning

Posted on June 29, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Robert W. PeltonVoodoo Charms and Talismans First sentence: The word “amulet” comes from the Arabian hamala which simply means to carry something on the person. The book itself presents as a talisman: 1973 Edition Along with its how-t0 advice, the … Continue reading →

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The Responsive Medium

Posted on May 21, 2015 by Francois Lachance

As reported to me by the poet Edward Mycue from his friend, Edith: Paper is very patient. You can write anything on it. It will not complain. And so for day 308321.05.2015

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On the Passagenwerk

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Transcribed from Susan Buck-Morss in One Way Street: Fragments for Walter Benjamin (1993) https://ubu.com/film/benjamin_fragments.html at 53:30 The border police in Spain would not let them pass. And it was that night that Benjamin took an overdose of morphine and committed … Continue reading →

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Anonymous But Unforgotten

Posted on March 12, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Christie McDonald The Proustian Fabric: Associations of Memory Each text constitutes an endpoint and a link with others. There is no credit for the book’s designer. Pity. It’s work that deserves a name to be named. Look at the title … Continue reading →

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A Book Speaks

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Francois Lachance

It begins: In silence between writer and reader A memory of words and hands takes form. The Booksellers, directed by D.W. Young, is a documentary about a group of established antiquarian book dealers in New York City. The documentary ends … Continue reading →

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What Books Leave

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Dionne Brand “Arriving at Desire” in Desire in Seven Voices ed. Lorna Crozier Books leave gestures in the body, a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving hesitations. Books leave certain … Continue reading →

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Hunting Down the Missing Epigraph

Posted on November 15, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Alana Wilcox, Editorial Director at Coach House Books, has been kind to me. I had borrowed from the Toronto Public Library Sylvia Legris’s Nerve Squall. The copy (first edition from 2005) has in the Sources section a note about the … Continue reading →

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Simple Words Touching

Posted on August 1, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Roopika Risam “Telling Untold Stories: Digital Textual Recovery Methods” in lewis levenberg, Tai Neilson, David Rheams (eds) Research Methods for the Digital Humanities. As the digital cultural record continues to be developed, it is critical to ensure that writers who … Continue reading →

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Humming and Sweeping

Posted on July 31, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Little City Book by Annie Ingle illustrated by Edward Miller c. 1994 ISBN 0-679-85290-5 The book that came my way is damaged and there is no copy in the Toronto Public Library not even in the Lillian H. Smith Collection … Continue reading →

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