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Simon Houpt Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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(Mainly Sports) Media and the business of sports for The Globe and Mail. The lovely art theft book "Museum of the Missing." I block mis/disinformers and trolls.

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Book Cover for: What Strange Paradise, Omar El Akkad

What Strange Paradise

Omar El Akkad
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Really good interview of @omarelakkad, about his (newest) acclaimed novel, What Strange Paradise, by the hardest working woman in Canadian arts journalism, @marshalederman: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-what-strange-paradise-will-find-its-way-under-your-skin-and-into-your/

Paperback, 2022

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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A Fine Balance

Rohinton Mistry
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Well this is cool: Almost three decades after its debut, Rohinton Mistry's Giller Prize-winning bestseller "A Fine Balance" is getting a TV adaptation from HBO. Producers include Northwood Entertainment (Anne With An E, The Grizzlies). https://t.co/jddROhz0Xj

Paperback, 2001

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Leopoldstadt

Tom Stoppard
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Sigh: @Mirvish Productions announces Omicron has scuttled the Toronto tour stop of Tom Stoppard's "Leopoldstadt," which was set to begin a 7-week run on Jan. 22, 2022. The company cites "looming border closings and quarantines expected (that) have complicated logistics." https://t.co/qTkiw2tHD3

Paperback, 2020

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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In the Skin of a Lion

Michael Ondaatje
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Cool news this morning for Michael Ondaatje fans (and fans of fiction about Toronto): Producer Robert Lantos says he's (finally!) set to move forward with his (very!) long-awaited film adaptation of Ondaatje's In The Skin of a Lion: https://t.co/7LHVi0X1tX

Paperback, 1997

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