On the bedside table of… Marie-Louise Arsenault

Twice a month, a public figure tells us what he is reading at the moment. This week, the host of the show The more the merrier, the more we read, Marie-Louise Arsenault, who will pilot the new radio talk show in the fall Everything can happen.

Laila Maalouf
The Press

The Sudbury Arsonist

The Sudbury Arsonist

Chloe LaDuchesse

Heliotrope

“It’s a first novel, a thriller; I like detective novels, that mechanic. [L’auteure] is a Montrealer who has lived in Sudbury for seven or eight years, like her character, who left Montreal to escape a toxic relationship. She’s a woman in her thirties who has messed up her life a bit, whose romantic relationships don’t work out…then her lover disappears. And there, we follow her in her quest to try to find out what happened to her. It’s an urban novel, we discover Sudbury, which is a very intriguing city. […] There is a whole plot on corruption because it frequents more or less shady people. It’s very mysterious, and the work on the language is magnificent. »

The dark angle of joy

The dark angle of joy

Denise Desaultels

Gallimard

“Denise Desaultels is a great poet and she has just entered the Poetry collection at Gallimard. This is the first time for a Quebec woman. The last Quebecer was Gaston Miron, 20 years ago, so it’s event-driven. Gallimard has said that she is “one of the great voices of North American poetry”; I love how he inscribes it in a territory that is very vast because it fundamentally deserves to be grasped in this perspective. She participated in the emergence of women’s poetry in Quebec. […] She’s a pioneer. Mourning, death, women’s bodies… there is something dark and very luminous in what she does. »

The Master

The Master

Christopher Clarey

Twelve

The author is a journalist from New York Times who covers tennis and he wrote this biography of Roger Federer which is excellent. I read it in English, but it should appear soon in French [Federer, le maître du jeu, chez Flammation Québec]. He does real journalistic work, he meets a lot of people who have known him, who have worked with him. It also registers Federer in this formidable era of the Big Three, with [Rafael] Nadal and [Novak] Djokovic. He has a real anthropological view of what a great athlete is, of the era to which he belongs. So for all the people who love sports in a very broad sense, this book is really, really good. It devours. »