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Bewitching Lhasa
Bewitching Lhasa
Fred Goodman
boreal
“As a music journalist, 75% of the books I read are biographies of musicians. Going behind the scenes of what these people went through, I love that; and besides, it feeds me for my radio show. I was glad to read a biography on Lhasa. Music journalists of the time were asked to testify. We go back to her origins, when she arrived in Quebec and tried to break into the music scene… It makes us relive the Montreal of the 1990s a lot. We go to places that are closed today; Patrick Watson takes us, among other places, to Café Sarajevo, which no longer exists today, but where Lhasa began. »
Look for Sam
Look for Sam
Sophie Welcome
august horse
“It’s one of my favorites. It is thanks to my girlfriend, Marie Hélène Poitras, that I read it; she is an author and she wrote the preface to the reissue of the book. I really loved this book. It happens in my neighborhood, Rosemont, along rue Masson. We follow a homeless man who has lost his dog. It’s so well written: the punchy sentences, the images, the breath of writing… It really upset me, I read it in two afternoons. It’s very touching. We understand through his search for the dog why he became homeless and why it becomes so important for him to find him. »
Basquiat
Basquiat
Paul Parisi
Laurence King Publishing
“The book begins with the death of Basquiat, at the age of 27, from an overdose. And there, we go back to the thread of the story: how he was hit by a car at the age of 7, how he began to draw and entered the world of New York art… there also meets Andy Warhol, and we understand a little his fall and what led him to go completely out of control. It is the life of Basquiat, superbly illustrated. And there’s a lot of music through that, because he was very involved in the New York counterculture. I really like Basquiat; there will be an exhibit on him and music at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts next fall, and I can’t wait to see it. »