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FALL 2020 IBLIOASIS —Ordering Information— For more information, or for further promotional materials, please contact: Meghan Desjardins Biblioasis Operations Manager 1686 Ottawa Street, Suite 100 Phone: 519-915-3930 Windsor, ON Email: [email protected] N8Y 1R1 Canada Chloe Moore Orders: Publicity www.biblioasis.com [email protected] Email: [email protected] on twitter: @biblioasis Phone: 519-915-3930 Distribution: University of Toronto Press 5201 Dufferin Street, Toronto, ON, M3H 5T8 Toll-free phone: 800-565-9533 / Fax: 800-221-9985 email: [email protected] Sales Representation: Ampersand Inc. 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Invoice copies or an invoice number must be included for all returns. Books shipped to us erroneously will be returned at the customer’s expense. BIBLIOASIS Fall 2020 PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED NEW FICTION, NONFICTION, AND HISTORY Alex Pugsley Steven Heighton Aubrey McKee / 5 Reaching Mithymna / 10 Jorge Carrión Jason Guriel Against Amazon / 5 Forgotten Work / 11 Kevin Lambert Kristyn Dunnion You Will Love What Stoop City / 12 You Have Killed / 6 Will Toffan Robyn Sarah Watching the Devil Dance / 13 Music, Late and Soon / 6 Jennifer Grainger Anita Lahey London Free Press: The Last Goldfish / 7 From the Vault, Vol. II / 13 Lennie Goodings A Bite of the Apple / 7 BEST CANADIAN 2020 / 14 Sarmishta Subramanian, Ed. Introducing FIELD NOTES / 8 Best Canadian Essays Mark Kingwell Marilyn Dumont, Ed. On Risk Best Canadian Poetry Andrew Potter Paige Cooper, Ed. On Decline Best Canadian Stories To be announced On Profiteering SETH’S CHRISTMAS GHOST STORIES / 15 Published with the generous assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country, and the financial support of the Government of Canada. Biblioasis also acknowledg- es the support of the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), an agency of the Government of Ontario, which last year funded 1,709 indi- vidual artists and 1,078 organizations in 204 communities across Ontario, for a total of $52.1 million, and the contribution of the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit and the Ontario Media Development Corporation. Printed in Canada Field Notes from a Vacant Bookshop On publishing and bookselling during the COVID-19 pandemic April 17, 2020 crisis in a responsible man- ner. The current catalogue Dear Booksellers, reflects this. It is not the cat- alogue we expected to present I write to you on a snowy a short month ago, nor even Friday afternoon from a lap- the catalogue we presented at top on my front bookstore sales conference at the end of counter. Please forgive the March: some delayed Spring sentimental hyperbole, but and Summer titles are back in this space increasingly feels its pages; others we intended like the loneliest place in the to present and publish during world. It’s been exactly a the Fall 2020 season have month since we first closed been delayed to later ones; our doors to the public: and there’s a new series of these old Walkerville distill- pamphlets, tentatively titled ery-district floorboards have Field Notes, we’re launching only felt the creak of my feet in the hope of making some since, and they want for more sense of the world we’re in varied company. The shop is now. We’re rethinking other still quite beautiful: even at aspects of our business, about the worst of times, books do the books we publish and how furnish a room. And though we promote and bring them we’ve been lucky enough to to market, and we’ll be in have tremendous community sup- spinning on the car stereo as my son touch with many of you, individu- port here in Windsor—at the time drives me from stop to stop to stop, ally and otherwise, over the coming of writing, sales since we closed our and I run out to climb up the steps, months to discuss this; and, likely, to doors are up 11% over the same kneel and deliver and knock and step ask for advice. Your support for us, period last year, and a whopping 26% away. Never before in our nearly 22 both as booksellers and publishers, since April 1st—and we’re busier years as booksellers have we felt so has helped a great deal as we’ve tried than ever, books alone do not make much a part of the Windsor commu- to make sense of how to move for- a bookshop: that requires the happy nity. Though there was a point late ward. Thank you for it, and please alchemy of people, conversation, and last year I thought about closing the know we’re here for all of you in turn. possibility. All three of these things store, tired of being torn between two Let us know if there’s anything we have been missing for a month, and businesses and fearing that I could no can do to help you at any time. You the email exchanges and Zoom con- longer do justice to both, I’m more can reach me directly at the email ference calls and Facebook updates committed to it than ever, and certain and phone numbers below. Though simply can’t make up for them. that it will not only survive this pan- I am certain of little these days, the demic but come out of it stronger. It one thing I do know is that we’re all The closest I get to that alchemical matters as much as anything we do as better working together. reaction is when I’m delivering books publishers, and if I lost sight of that to people at their homes, and see the for a while, it’s no longer the case. With affection and profound respect relief and pleasure and gratitude it and gratitude for you all. engenders. The days are long—four- If the past month at the bookshop teen, fifteen, seventeen hours—but has been a period of quick change Dan Wells they’re strangely full of hope. Every and manically purposeful activity, Bookseller/Publisher book sold seems a reason to celebrate, the press has operated in a different Biblioasis and my favourite moments over the but no-less-purposeful mode, moti- [email protected] past month have been in the eve- vated by the dual ethos of doing little 519-915-3930 nings, racing against the sun, Wilco harm and responding to the current 4 Previously Announced COVID19-Delayed Titles Aubrey McKee Alex Pugsley “A rollicking, strange and unforgettable coming of age novel unlike anything you’ve ever read.” —LYNN COADY, SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF HELLGOING From basement rec rooms to midnight railway tracks, Action Transfers to Smarties boxes crammed with joints, from Paul McCartney on the kitchen radio to their furious teenaged cover of The Ramones, Aubrey McKee and his familiars navigate late adolescence amidst the old-monied decadence of Halifax. An arcana of oddball angels, Alex Pugsley’s long-awaited debut novel follows rich-kid drug dealers and junior tennis brats, émigré heart surgeons and small-time thugs, renegade private school girls and runaway children as they try to make sense of the city into which they’ve been born. Part coming-of-age-story, part social chronicle, and part study of the myths that define our growing up, Aubrey McKee introduces a breathtakingly original new voice. Alex Pugsley is a writer and filmmaker originally from Nova Scotia. A winner of the Writers’ Trust Journey Prize, his fiction has appeared in Brick, The Dalhousie Review, Eighteen Bridges, The New Quarterly, subTerrain, Taddle Creek, This Magazine, The Walrus, and, for the last three years, Best Canadian Stories. His next book, Shimmer, is also forthcoming from Biblioasis. June 2020 | Novel Comparable Titles 5.5 x 8.5 | 400pp Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club Trade Paper: 978-1-77196-311-4 Catherine Hernandez, Scarborough eBook: 978-1-77196-312-1 Lynn Coady, Mean Boy $22.95 cad Against Amazon Jorge Carrión Translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush “To read is to travel in time and space, and to travel from bookshop to bookshop is an ecstatic experience for Carrión, a joy he conveys page after page.”—MACLEAN’S Picking up where the widely praised Bookshops: A Reader’s History left off, Against Amazon explores the increasing pressures of Amazon and other new technologies on bookshops and libraries.