IMAGINING TORONTO
Intersections of Literature and Place in the Toronto Region

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Toronto Booksellers

Please patronize Toronto's local booksellers:

A Different Booklist
ABC Books (662 Yonge)
Abelard Books

Acadia Art and Rare Books
Alexandre Antique Maps, Prints & Books

Another Story Bookshop
Aleph Bet Judaica (3453 Bathurst)
Annex Books
Atticus Books
Babel Books
Balfour Books (601 College)
Bakka-Phoenix

The Beguiling
Ben McNally Books
BMV Books (471 Bloor Street West, 10 Edward, 2289 Yonge)
Book City

The Book Exchange
The Book Mark (2964 Bloor Street West, in the Kingsway)
Burke's Bookstore
Chapters/Indigo
Circus Books (253 Gerrard Street East)
Contact Editions
D & E Lake Books and Art
David Mason Books

David Mirvish Books
Dencan Books
Eliot's Books (584 Yonge)
Fertile Ground Environmental Bookstore

Flying Dragon Bookshop
G.B. Kirk, Bookseller
Glad Day Bookshop
Handy Book Exchange (1762 Avenue Road)
Hugh Anson-Cartright Fine Books, Maps & Prints
The Monkey's Paw
Nicholas Hoare Books
Open City Books
Orion Books
Pages Books
Pandemonium Books
The Recycled Bookshop
Seekers Books (509 Bloor Street West)
She Said Boom!
Sleuth of Baker Street
Steven Temple Books
Swipe Books
Ten Editions Bookstore (698 Spadina)
Theatre Books
This Ain't the Rosedale Library
Toronto Women's Bookstore

Type Books

University of Toronto Bookstore Webster's Fine Books & Maps
World's Biggest Bookstore (20 Edward Street)
York University Bookstore
Zoinks!

 
 


External Links

Updated 25 November 2007

Authors Aloud
The voices of Canadian Literature (a wonderful website featuring audio recordings of Canadian writers reading their works aloud. Toronto writers listed include Catherine Bush, Barbara Gowdy, Katrina Onstad, and Michael Redhill )

Bibliotravel's list of Books Set in Toronto

BookMooch
"Give books away. Get books you want."

BookNinja

Books in Canada

Bookstore Tourism and the Bookstore Tourism blog (American, but here is a 2005 entry on a visit to Toronto)

Broken Pencil
Toronto-based magazine dedicated to zines, underground culture, and independent arts

Canadian Architexts
Essays on Literature and Architecture in Canada, 1759-2005

Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review.
The website for this scholarly journal contains an endex of each issue and abstracts of many of its published articles. (see the Imagining Toronto Library for more relevant scholarly journals)

City of Toronto Book Awards
The Toronto Book Awards were established in 1974 to honour writing evocative of Toronto. A complete list of winners is available here.

(The) Danforth Review
Electronic literary magazine. Fiction, non-fiction, interviews, and literary reviews. Includes much Toronto content but also directs its gaze elsewhere.

Descant
A quarterly journal publishing contemporary writing and visual art.

Diaspora Dialogues
"Diaspora Dialogues commissions established writers, poets and playwrights to create new work sets in Toronto.
Diaspora Dialogues also encourages emerging voices through open calls for submissions and publishing and mentoring programs. A multidisciplinary performance series brings these writers and artists to audiences in their community and across the broad Toronto community."

54East
"The magazine that moves". Focused on Scarborough culture, architecture, history, and narratives. Back issues are available to download and read.

Geist
"Canadian ideas, Canadian culture". Literary magazine.

GraemeParry.com
Graeme Parry's maps and Toronto laneway tours.

HisTORicity: Toronto Then and Now (Toronto Public Library)

I Heard a Story About Yorkville
An electronic archive of 1960s-era Yorkville

Imagine A Toronto ... Strategies for a Creative City

Kiss Machine
"A conga line of arts & culture"

Liminal City
A journal of urban exploration, spatial excavation, and unceasing transformation.

Local Ruins
Jennifer Burns' photographic record of abandoned and reclaimed buildings in Toronto.

Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy at the Toronto Public Library

[murmur] Toronto
[murmur] is an ongoing "audio archive project" devoted to collecting stories told by Torontonians. [murmur] beachheads have been established throughout Toronto's Annex, Kensington Market, and along Spadina.

Palace of Purification (Marc Ngui's comic about the R.C. Harris water filtration plant in Toronto)

Place and Location: Studies in Environmental Aesthetics and Semiotics III
(proceedings of the 2003 conference, Estonian Academy of Arts; click here to read a .pdf version of Nancy Burke's paper, "Canadian Urban Space as Portrayed in Selected Fiction and Non-fiction")

Poetics.ca

PoetryReviews.ca
PoetryReviews.ca is dedicated to reviewing poetry books/chapbooks by Canadian authors. National in focus, but has Toronto-based contributors.

Reading Toronto
Reading Toronto, produced and edited by architect Robert Oulette and supported by a wide variety of contributors, is an online community "dedicated to the design, culture, and politics that shape our city." Part of the Reading Cities initiative.


Spacing Magazine

Toronto Poetry Slam

Toronto Psychogeography Society
The Toronto Psychogeography Society is a loose agglomeration of people who explore Toronto as "flaneurs, explorers, and walkers."  The Society's blog is a highly worthwhile read.

 

Toronto Writers
 
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Toronto Area Presses
 
Knopf (now Random House)
Pedlar Press
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