If you are a fan of books, plays or Chuck Klosterman, then you are in luck. Klosterman (author of Sex, Drugs and Cocopuffs: A Low Culture Manifesto), Mac Wellman, Tony Mochama, and Jon Paul Fiorentino read at Concordia, as a part of the Summer Literary Seminars, last night and they rocked the quiet, dimly lit, uncomfortable, house! Klosterman will be discussing his writing and creative nonfiction with fellow writer Craig Silverman, this afternoon. Essentially, they will be discussing how to write about your television watching habits without sounding boring and pretentious.

Saturday, June 19th, Palimpsest Magazine will be hosting 'Secular Miracle'; a fundraising event celebrating video, audio, printed matter, light projections, and miracles

Kurt Vonnegut once said that you can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you're depressed. But the writers of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry who came together to celebrate at Lion d'Or on Tuesday were anything but. Members of the Montreal literati packed into the 1930s-style club for the 2009 Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Awards Gala to honour the achievements of the Quebec writing community. Many thank you's to mothers were given, cheap beers provided by MacAuslan were had, and jokes about cheap beer (and mothers) were enjoyed by all.

Montreal-based cartoonist and musician Rick Trembles has been hailed as a hardworking twisted genius by "journalists", fellow-musicians and legendary figures such as Robert Crumb.

Motion Picture Purgatory Volume 2 is Rick's second collection of "comic-strip concoctions configured to critique film" and it recently came out on Fab Press.

Listen up, heathens. Author, radio producer, and bitingly funny oddball Jonathan Goldstein is holding a book launch event tonight for his latest book: Ladies and Gentleman, The Bible Goldstein is best known for his radio work on This American Life and CBC's smartest show Wiretap, but tonight he gets out of the studio in an attempt to revive that most sacred of texts, the Bible (so sacred it needs a capital B).

The event is taking place over at Drawn and Quarterly (in itself a reason to go), and it will feature a Q and A with Jonathan and a special guest appearance from Montreal Cartoonist and Wiretap star Howard Chackowicz. Apparently there's also a slide show story about dating Lois Lane after she breaks up with Superman.

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We Love Books! is an exhibition bringing together books from the four corners of the earth. Foreign designers, whether graphic artists or typographers, are throwing a new and fascinating light upon generally accessible publications.This festival took place last November in Échirolles (France). Mars et Avril is a modern photo-novel hybrid with a unbridled cohesion between text and images.Two books from Mars et Avril published by local ad agency Sid Lee and La Pastèque were selected among the best. See some pages of the book after the jump.