{"id":2459,"date":"2014-10-20T13:09:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T20:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2014-10-20T13:09:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T20:09:26","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s4e61-publishing-crushing-with-alana-wilcox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2459","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S4E61: Publishing Crushing with Alana Wilcox"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"coachhousebooks\"Near the University of Toronto, Colin Marshall talks to Alana Wilcox, Editorial Director of Coach House Books<\/a> and author of the novel A Grammar of Endings<\/em>. They discuss the past twenty years’ boom in Toronto writing; what factors, including an embarrassing mayor in the nineties, made “mythologizing our own city” possible; why Coach House prints right there on premises, “giving cultural producers access to the means of production”; the technological palimpsest of Coach House’s offices; the origin of their\u00a0uTOpia<\/a> series, which envision the Toronto of the future and which began when “you simply didn’t publish about Toronto”; the broadness of the ideas about the city that surprised her, as well as the number of its “civic nerds”; how Coach House pushes for “adventurous” writing, such a recent book on surveillance, a novel about\u00a0Andy Warhol’s\u00a0Sleep<\/em>, and Christian B\u00f6k’s <\/a>Eunoia<\/a><\/em>; their shifting relationship over the years with the printed book; how she got interested in Toronto herself; what she shows\u00a0students who turn up on field trips; her lack of worries about the future of the printed book, and how she finds readers process information differently depending on the physical medium of the text; their paper equivalent of 180-gram vinyl; how dominant bookselling chains have persisted in Canada, and the effects of that; Coach House’s own books involving the city, like Maggie Helwig’s blind-photographer novel\u00a0Girls Fall Down<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>and an upcoming study of the Ward, Toronto’s first slum; her first novel, the second novel she put away, and what writing taught her about publishing; Coach House’s “Exploded Views<\/a>” series, which includes Shawn Micallef<\/a>‘s book on all-consuming precarity\u00a0The Trouble with Brunch<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and David Balzer’s\u00a0Curationism<\/a><\/em>; shopping by publisher, and how she started doing it herself almost right away, acting as a consumer on her “publishing crushes”; how much of an enemy to consider Amazon; the literary figure from whom Coach House’s bpNichol Lane takes its name; her lack of fascination with “CanLit”; the multiculturalism she doesn’t see in Toronto; and how the city has lately tired her out.<\/p>\n

Download the interview\u00a0<\/span>here as an MP3<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0<\/span>iTunes<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Near the University of Toronto, Colin Marshall talks to Alana Wilcox, Editorial Director of Coach House Books and author of the novel A Grammar of Endings. They discuss the past twenty years’ boom in Toronto writing; what factors, including an embarrassing mayor in the nineties, made “mythologizing our own city” possible; why Coach House prints […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook-on-cities-and-culture","category-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2462,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions\/2462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}