pickDoes making art necessitate a deal with the devil? A former musician tries to navigate a new future for himself, without really knowing what it is he wants. Funny, dark and socially-aware, this novel is about the funding of cultural arts in our society and also the issue of affordable housing in cities like Toronto. I really enjoyed it. #shadowGiller2022 #CanLit
“God is the throbbing hum of an inhumanly low frequency, a bass note that sustains the universe.â€
This part of the novel is about someone who appears to think along the lines of Joachim-Ernst Berendt, who wrote Nada Brahma, which I read a very long time ago but has stuck with me.
… the jagged shards of glass plunging through the gothic facades of museums …
(Internet image of the Royal Ontario Museum)
In theory, I was fully in favour of “burning it all down,†as people liked to say. But I couldn‘t quite bridge the distance between the metaphor and reality. Arsonists don‘t tend to leave things better than they found them.
Nice weather for late September, so I did my Friday Reads outdoors:
Friday Reads September 23: #GillerPrize #Trans+ #LGBTQIA+ #audiobooks #CanLit #ArtWorld #booktube
https://youtu.be/Fv9BjJLLIGw
He spoke with a bleating home counties accent, and had the kind of round English face that looks like a bowl of porridge an unwell person has spat into.
(Internet image)
In the City of Pigs | 
