Charles Coleman, film programmer at Facets Cinematheque, is reading:
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The result of this extraordinary journey regarding its impact is incalculable, as the generational legacy detailed in this extraordinary book crosses the entire spectrum of the American experience. The Warmth of Other Suns reads like a novel and Wilkerson’s writing style compels the audience to follow along with keen interest as we share the delight and plight of her subjects. My parents were part of this iconic movement. Ms. Wilkerson has powerfully reminded us that our country is about its people who will do their best to triumph over any adversity. As someone once said, “History never looks like history when you are living through it.”
The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists Here at the Numero Group we’re in the business of real songs and stories that are too great to be faked. Arrow Brown‘s bizarre pairing of a record label with a harem, the Final Solution‘s gig recording a blaxploitation soundtrack for filmmakers too incompetent to shoot a single frame, the downer masterpiece of a minor-league hockey star . . . these are lost national treasures that we barely believed when we discovered them, too irresistible to withhold from the world any longer. Canadian cartoonist Gregory Gallant, also known as Seth, is making these same sorts of discoveries in the world of cartoons and carefully weaving them into a warmhearted narrative about bygone ways of life. The only difference is that these are all Seth’s creations: Canada Jack, the Great Machine, sadly, even Kao-Kuk. Don’t mistake them for crass imitations. It’s a fine line between imagination that fakes reality and imagination that manifests reality. Seth succeeds at the latter.
