In 2020, I participated in the Brooklyn Art Library Sketchbook Project. My book is now archived online as well as in physical form at the Library. Check it out. You can click through photos of the entire sketchbook. I hope you enjoy it. Sheila did… Read More
Free books are available at the 27th Street Book Box, located in front of our place Twenty Seventh, about half a block north of Lake Prom, here in Toronto’s Long Branch neighbourhood. There has been more than the usual amount of activity and turnover at… Read More
What are you reading these days? I’m just starting The Pigeon Tunnel, John Le Carre’s memoir. My co-host on The Agency Podcast, Candy Minx, is reading it as well and we’ll be discussing it on the podcast once we’re both finished. Perhaps you’d like to… Read More
*FREE BOOKS* There has been a great deal of activity in the 27th Street Book Box lately. When we started this a few years ago we had no idea if it would be popular or not. There are some book boxes or “little free libraries”… Read More
I’ve been working on a little book of collages, and previously I’ve posted some of the images. Of course I continued to work on the book, even changing pages I thought were complete. I decided this afternoon it was done and glued 173 Big Ideas… Read More
Charles Portis died while I was off enjoying a trip to Hanoi, Vietnam. A few years ago, I stumbled upon a book called Dog of the South by Mr.Portis. It’s about a guy named Ray, a guy on a mission. His wife Norma ran off… Read More
The Agency Reading List is slowly growing. As books come up during The Agency Podcast, I’ve been adding them. Looking for an engaging read? Check out the list. Or, if you’re in Long Branch, in the SW corner of Toronto, stop by the 27th Street… Read More
Girl to City is a recently published memoir of singer-songwriter Amy Rigby. I discovered the existence of this book more or less by accident. One day when I was surfing the YouTube, I got stuck on watching performances by Amy Rigby, including several with Wreckless… Read More
I just finished reading Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 masterpiece, The Price of Salt. How is it I failed to read this before now? Highsmith initially published this same-sex love story as Claire Morgan, then republished it many years later under her own name, but with the… Read More
Luke Nguyen is an Australian restaurateur and celebrity chef, whose family left Vietnam in the late 70s as so-called boat people. The Food of Vietnam is a big, splashy, beautiful book which combines a personal travelog with many appetizing recipes. We had this book at… Read More
