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  • Estates Large and Small

    de Ray Robertson ...
    Winner of Georgian Bay Reads 2025Profound, perceptive, and wryly observed, Estates Large and Small is the story of one man’s reckoning and an ardent defense of the shape books make in a life.What decades of rent increases and declining readership couldn’t do, a pandemic finally did: Phil Cooper has reluctantly closed his secondhand bookstore and moved his business online. Smoking too much pot and ... Leer más

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  • Moody Food

    A Novel

    de Ray Robertson ...
    Inspired by the exploits of ill-fated country-rock visionary Gram Parsons, this mid-60s tale of idealism and escape traces the trials of a fictionalized draft-dodging flower child from the United States to Canada and back. It is the late 1960s in Yorkville, Toronto's hippie ghetto of artists, intellectuals, drunken poets, and would-be rock stars. In this idyllic haven, narrator Bill Hansen, a ... Leer más

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  • How to Die

    A Book About Being Alive

    de Ray Robertson ...
    A radical revaluation of how contemporary society perceives death—and an argument for how it can make us happy.“He who would teach men to die would teach them to live,” writes Montaigne in Essais, and in How to Die: A Book about Being Alive, Ray Robertson takes up the challenge. Though contemporary society avoids the subject and often values the mere continuation of existence over its quality, ... Leer más

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  • The Right to Be Wrong

    de Ray Robertson ...
    Series series To the Point
    Religious or secular, fundamentalism is not unique to any particular political persuasion. To those in narrow-minded pursuit of ideological purity, disagreement is tantamount to treason and punishable by censure, ostracism, or cancellation. But how does this attitude shape how we engage with contemporary politics, public opinion, or art? Passionately argued, coolly critical, irreverently humorous, ... Leer más

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  • Dust

    More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars)

    de Ray Robertson ...
    “Robertson offers the whole picture, warts and all. In doing so, he honors the music of artists who have enriched his life—and opens the door for his readers to experience the same magic.”—Blues Blast MagazineIn Dust: More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars), Ray Robertson digs deep, offering up an eclectic gathering of a dozen biographical and critical portraits of some of the twentieth century’s ... Leer más

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  • 1979

    A Novel

    de Ray Robertson ...
    It’s 1979 and Tom Buzby is thirteen years old and living in the small working- class city of Chatham, Ontario. So far, so normal. Except that Tom’s dad is the local tattoo artist, his mother is a born-again former stripper who’s run off with the minister from the church where the pet store used to be, and his sister can’t wait to leave town for good. And everyone along his daily newspaper route ... Leer más

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  • All the Years Combine

    The Grateful Dead in Fifty Shows

    de Ray Robertson ...
    A Grateful Dead concert, Ray Robertson argues, is life.Like life, it can be alternately compelling and lackluster; familiar and foreign; occasionally sublime and sometimes insipid. Although the Grateful Dead stopped the day Jerry Garcia’s heart did, what the band left behind is the next best thing to being there in the third row, courtesy of the group’s unorthodox decision to record all of their ... Leer más

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  • I Was There the Night He Died

    de Ray Robertson ...
    A mid-life crisis novel that reads like a Beat romp: think Kerouac, in his 50s, cooped up & caring for his dadBlend of fiction and philosophy with plain-spoken voice makes accessible, interesting, entertaining general readingHas demonstrated consistent sales growth in CDN & US salesDavid, though past its reviewing season, generated considerable interest from librarians, booksellers, professors, ... Leer más

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  • Lives of the Poets (with Guitars)

    Thirteen Outsiders Who Changed Modern Music

    de Ray Robertson ...
    “The days of poets moping around castle steps wearing black capes is over. The poets of today are amplified.”— LEONARD COHENPicking up where Samuel Johnson left off more than two centuries ago, Ray Robertson’s Lives of the Poets (with Guitars) offers up an amplified gathering of thirteen portraits of rock & roll, blues, folk, and alt-country’s most inimitable artists. Irreverent and riotous, ... Leer más

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  • David

    de Ray Robertson ...
    The setting (in Chatham, Ontario) is underdiscussed, but hugely important to the history of the US slave tradeConnects to history of the Underground RailwayRay Robertson received excellent Canadian coverage for his latest book with Biblioasis, is an extremely personable reader, and has connections with several cities in the states (especially Austin, TX, where he went to school). ... Leer más

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  • Why Not?

    Fifteen Reasons to Live

    de Ray Robertson ...
    crosses genres, and will appeal to a wide audience: self-help, literary, essays, philosophy, psychologyauthor suffers from serious depression related to OCD. This book came out of a suicidal period, when he came up with a list of fifteen reasons why he should not kill himself. Or, more optimistically, fifteen reasons to live. They range from Love and Work to Intoxication, and, paradoxically, death ... Leer más

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  • Heroes

    de Ray Robertson ...
    "Ray Robertson is an irrepressible voice, with brass balls and a heart of gold."—Jonathan EvisonPeter Bayle—heavy drinker, philosopher, scholar, anemic lover—is in Kansas, writing a feature on middle America's newfound love for hockey. There he meets a morphine-injecting reverend, a reviled reporter, and a drug salesman; obsessed by his self-destructive new friends, Bayle abandons the project and ... Leer más

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