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What you may have missed this week at the MQUP…
John Glassco on social media and James Frey
Seven timeless lessons from Peter Cundill’s biography
Have you visited MQUP's new Tumblr?
Anthony J. Hall pays tribute to Marshall McLuhan
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Margaret Atwood fights for Toronto … Read More >
Canadian Bookshelf recently sat down with Brian Busby, author of A Gentlemen of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Memoirist, Translator, and Pornographer. John Glassco (1909-1981) is best known for his Memoirs of Montparnasse, the controversial chronicle of his youthful adventures and encounters with celebrities in the Paris of … Read More >
Peter Cundill, a philanthropist and investor whose work has been praised by the likes of Warren Buffett, found his life changed forever when he discovered the value investment principles of Benjamin Graham and began to put them into action. There's Always Something to Do by Christopher Risso-Gill tells the story … Read More >
Author Anothony J. Hall, author of The Bowl With One Spoon series and a former Marshall McLuhan student offers tribute to McLuhan on CBC's Ideas.
What you may have missed this week at the MQUP…
Vintage computing
The MQUP Tumblr is born
Marshall McLuhan's would-be 100th birthday
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E-Book revolution upends a publishing course
Ten unconventional bookstores for your browsing pleasure
Have you heard … Read More >
Today would have been Marhsall McLuhan's 100th birthday.
Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian scholar, philosopher and one of the world's most famous media theorist. Pre-internet, he predicted in 1962, "a computer as a research and communication instrument could enhance retrieval, obsolesce mass library organization, retrieve the individual's encyclopedic function … Read More >
Visit the new MQUP Tumblr where we'll be unearthing McGill-Queen's literary odds and ends for your enjoyment.
The MQUP recently sat down with Zbigniew Stachniak author of Inventing the PC, an insider's view of events on the front lines of pioneering work on personal computers.
Click below to discover how the personal computer came to be, the author's favourite vintage PC along with the story of the … Read More >
Excerpted from The Whig-Standard article “E-waste not, want not” by Paul Schliesmann.
Scott Environmental is the largest e-waste collector in Kingston with a massive facility on Fortune Crescent. It is filled with discarded electronics that will make their way to one of a dozen processors around … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at the MQUP…
Creditors pull plug on Inuit film company behind Fast Runner
Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune reviewed
North American society, the "Have's and the Want-More's" ?
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Authors and their inspiration
Weird writing habits of Read More >