MQUP Weekly Round-up

Oct 24, 2014

Happy Friday! Here’s your weekly summary of MQUP’s latest news & upcoming events.

Brian Young’s Interview on CTV Montreal (+ Book Launch)

Brian Young was on CTV Montreal earlier this week discussing his new book, Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec, on the Taschereaus and McCords with Mutsumi Takahashi.

And thanks to everyone who came out to the Montreal book launch this week! More >

Saturday, Nov 1st: Reimagining Cinema Launch & Symposium at La Cinémathèque Québécoise

We have an exciting book launch-screening-symposium event coming up next weekend for Reimagining Cinema!

This event is organized by CINEMAexpo67. See you next Saturday! More >

Quiet heroes of the Second World War: Magda and André Trocmé in the Montreal Gazette

Magda and André Trocmé were featured in the Montreal Gazette to promote Nelly Trocmé Hewett’s Montreal speaking events this month.

We posted a brief excerpt on the blog. More >

What else?

Pearl Eliadis, author of Speaking Out on Human Rights, discussing the civil rights implications of this week’s events in Ottawa and St-Jean-sur-Richelieu in this Montreal Gazette article.

“All the hallmarks of Sternberg’s best verse are here: the playful tenor, the electric prosody, the self-assurance.” From Ricardo Sternberg’s Some Dance Arc Poetry review

Bruce Whiteman, author of forthcoming spring ’15 release, Tablature, has a Q&A up on rob mclennan’s blog.

Sherry Simon’s In Translation was reviewed in the latest Translation issue of The Malahat Review.

Other Bookish News