Lance Blomgren

"[A] compilation of new and classic writing and visual art on spatial culture in modernity post-9/11.The work gathered here creates an alternative perspective on the built environment through contemporary culture. Particular attention is paid to spaces that are in some way temporary, contingent, marginal, or fictional in order to critically analyse the meaning of art, and to provide a tenable counter-narrative to architecture's dominant ideologies concerning technological imperatives and the monumental"--P. of cover.

Combined, the editors of this anthology of new Montreal writing have been issuing small press books, chapbooks, comics and broadsheets for over a decade. One is Ottawa-based, providing an outsider's perspective, and the other works in the heart of the Montreal's anglophone under-ground. Collected here are many of the Montreal writers they have published over the past few years and who they believe are producing not only the best writing in Montreal, but some of the best writing, period.

“Full of Montreal spleen…a fictive site where the mundane particularities of apartment living—stale bagels, unwashed sheets and cat-fur dust-bunnies—collide with the architecture of human psychogeography, conspiracy theories and long, long winters.” — Charlie Gardner, Fool Inc.