Acqua Sacra and Mont Babel in Translation

Press Release      For Immediate Release      September, 2021

DC Books is proud to announce the publication of a German translation of Keith Henderson’s novel, Acqua Sacra by Wolfbach Verlag, an imprint of Synergia (Frankfurt, Basel, Zurich: ISBN 9783906929514.) Their catalogue can be consulted at: https://www.wolfbach-verlag.ch/. Keith Henderson has been invited to Frankfurt during the Frankfurt Book fair as part of Synergia’s promotional activities.

October 2021 will also see the publication of an Italian translation of Henderson’s most recent novel, Mont Babel, by Ester di Bellavia (Turin), ISBN 9788899668563. Their catalogue can be consulted at http://www.edizioniester.com

“Explore the prickly edges of Science and Religion as Jim Benedict is unexpectedly invited by his estranged son Tom, to meet a beautiful geologist, famous in the UFO scene since her own childhood close encounter. Seeking reconciliation, Benedict reluctantly contemplates the possibility of alien visitations through conversations with Iris who shares her impressions of the extraterrestrial visitors as non-interfering, discreet/discrete masters of ‘existential decorum’. In their quest for knowledge, the young scientists scale philosophical as well as geological heights, the Stratosphere of Las Vegas, and plummet into sinkholes, both emotional and volcanic. An intellectual tour de force worthy of Umberto Eco, this novella will fascinate the reader with its dazzling bricolage of poetry, philosophy, ufology lore, and esoteric history of Quebec.”
–SUSAN J. PALMER, McGILL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES, AUTHOR OF ALIENS ADORED: RAEL’S UFO RELIGION (RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2004)

Giuliana Pendenza

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DC Books Virtual Spring Launch Apr. 18, 3 to 4:30 pm

Kindly save the date!

DC Books will be conducting a virtual book launch for its latest authors on Sunday, April 18th from 3 to 4:30 pm.

Featured will be Don Druick for Tulip and Other Plays, Keith Henderson for his novella Mont Babel, and poet Angela Szczepaniak for her new collection The Nerves Centre. The event will also feature cameo appearances by poet Greg Santos and novelist Mariianne Mays Wiebe.

The event will be held on Zoom and hosted by poet Jason Camlot. The Zoom link you will use to join the event will be emailed to you one day prior to the launch, and will be made public on the Livres DC Books Facebook Page on the day of the event. In the meanwhile, please save the date and time. Interested?  Email dcbookscanada@gmail.com to receive your zoom link!

While this will be a “virtual” book launch, we want to stress that you can still purchase real books by following the links to purchase your copies, below.

Giuliana Pendenza
DC Books Communications dcbookscanada@gmail.com  

Tulip cover

https://dcbooks.ca/tulip.html 

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The Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network presents:HeritageTalks Online 2021

“Not as crazy as you’d think: Canada’s Fenian scare and Thomas D’Arcy McGee,” with Keith Henderson

Tuesday, March 23, 2021
7:00-8:00 p.m.

This year (2021) marks the sesquicentennial of the last Fenian raid on Canada, which took place in Emerson, Manitoba in October of 1871. Fenian leader John O’Neill hoped for Métis support for his efforts to split British North America (and ultimately Ireland) from Imperial rule, but he failed, just as previous, more dangerous Fenian incursions in 1866 and 1870 failed. Why should we take these Irish American marauders seriously? Because Thomas D’Arcy McGee did. He sensed the power and the danger of ethnocentric movements, particularly those fueled by grievance, and did his utmost to counteract them. From the mid-nineteenth century on, McGee bridled at Irish separatism and championed Confederation. His pro-union views come into stark relief in these days of referendums and potential break-ups, in Spain, Great Britain, and here at home.

Keith Henderson is a novelist and publisher. He led Quebec’s Equality Party during the 1995 referendum and championed English language rights and the “poison pill” strategy of partitioning Quebec if ever Quebec partitioned Canada; positions covered in full length articles in the Los Angeles and New York Times as well as on CBS 60 Minutes. Henderson’s The Roof Walkers captures the flavour of the Fenian period.

This event will take place live on Zoom, as well as on Facebook Livestream.
To participate on Zoom click here

To view on Facebook Live, click here.

Mont Babel

New from DC Books

Press Release      For Immediate Release      November, 2020

DC Books is proud to announce the publication of Mont Babel, a novella by Keith Henderson.

“Where is everybody?” That’s the question physicist Enrico Fermi posed to his Manhattan Project colleagues now 70 years ago. They knew what he meant. Decades of reaching out to intelligent beings elsewhere in the universe, and no response. Zero. Nothing. A fact which remains true today.

Mont Babel sling-shots off the Fermi paradox using the opposing forces of father and son. Jim Benedict’s a humanist, a man of the word, his son an engineer who’s bored by Shakespeare and likes the NFL. “In the beginning was the word. In the beginning was the Big Bang: two party bumper stickers of our current malaise,” writes Jim Benedict. Father and son rarely communicate. If they do, it is by email.

What brings them together is the lovely Iris Doubt, Tom Benedict’s south African geologist girlfriend, one of the Ariel School children who claimed to have been visited by aliens. Now working in Canada, she spends her free time as invitee to UFO conferences and as investigator of impact craters, one of which is l’oeil du Québec, Mont Babel.

Macrocosm meets microcosm in Mont Babel, quantum mechanics and astrophysics, neutrinos and black holes, raising questions about perception and consciousness, heaven and family peace.

Mont Babel, 119 pp., November 2020, ISBN: 978-1-927599-52-5 (paper) $19.95

Praise for Mont Babel

“Explore the prickly edges of Science and Religion as Jim Benedict is unexpectedly invited by his estranged son Tom, to meet a beautiful geologist, famous in the UFO scene since her own childhood close encounter. Seeking reconciliation, Benedict reluctantly contemplates the possibility of alien visitations through conversations with Iris who shares her impressions of the extraterrestrial visitors as non-interfering, discreet/discrete masters of ‘existential decorum’. In their quest for knowledge, the young scientists scale philosophical as well as geological heights, the Stratosphere of Las Vegas, and plummet into sinkholes, both emotional and volcanic. An intellectual tour de force worthy of Umberto Eco, this novella will fascinate the reader with its dazzling bricolage of poetry, philosophy, ufology lore, and esoteric history of Quebec.”

–SUSAN J. PALMER, McGILL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES, AUTHOR OF ALIENS ADORED: RAEL’S UFO RELIGION (RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2004)

Giuliana Pendenza
T: 1-514-943-9310
E: dcbookscanada@gmail.com

www.dcbooks .ca

DC Books is distributed by Fitzhenry and Whiteside. www.fitzhenry.ca

DC Books Virtual Launch Oct. 25, 3 to 4:30 pm

Kindly save the date!

DC Books will be conducting a virtual book launch for its latest authors on Sunday, October 25th from 3 to 4:30 pm.

Featured will be Mariianne Mays Wiebe for the novel Kate Wake, Zsolt Alapi for his novel Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, and poet Greg Santos for his new collection Ghost Face.

The event will be held on Zoom and hosted by poet Jason Camlot. The Zoom link you will use to join the event will be emailed to you one day prior to the launch, and will be made public on the Livres DC Books Facebook Page on the day of the event. In the meanwhile, please save the date and time. Interested?  Email dcbookscanada@gmail.com to receive your zoom link!

While this will be a “virtual” book launch, we want to stress that you can still purchase real books by following the links to purchase your copies, below.

Giuliana Pendenza
DC Books Communications

dcbookscanada@gmail.com

Ghost Face

New from DC Books

Press Release      For Immediate Release      September, 2020

DC Books is proud to announce the publication of Ghost Face, poetry by Greg Santos.

In his third DC Books title, Greg Santos explores what it means to have been a Cambodian infant adopted by a Canadian family. Through a uniquely playful and self-reflective series of poems that pay moving homage to his adoptive parents, and explore the fantasies of a lost family and life in Cambodia, Santos leads the reader through his visceral process of unlearning and relearning who he is and who he might become.

Ghost Face, 83 pp., September 2020, ISBN: 978-1-927599-51-8 (paper) $19.95

Praise for Ghost Face

“Santos’ poems are inventive, smart, and skillfully written and his work does not disappoint. Ghost Face is a beautiful collection that thoughtfully examines family mythologies, identity, and a longstanding belief in ghosts. These are poems I kept returning to, a book I could not put down.”

–KELLI RUSSELL AGODON, AUTHOR OF HOURGLASS MUSEUM & THE DAILY POET: DAY-BY-DAY PROMPTS FOR YOUR WRITING PRACTICE

Giuliana Pendenza
T: 1-514-943-9310
E: dcbookscanada@gmail.com

www.dcbooks .ca

DC Books is distributed by Fitzhenry and Whiteside. www.fitzhenry.ca

Greg Santos virtual reading at Suwanee Georgia’s Read it Again Bookstore

Poetry Hour with Bunkong Tuon and Greg Santos August 7th
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Here is the YouTube link where the event can be viewed on August 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0fyfX1Q6TE

Read It Again Bookstore is excited to welcome Bunkong Tuon and Greg Santos to our weekly poetry series. This should be a fun and lively conversation about poetry, craft and common interests.

Greg Santos

Greg Santos is the author of Blackbirds (2018), Rabbit Punch! (2014), and The Emperor’s Sofa (2010). He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from New York City’s The New School. He regularly works with at-risk communities as a creative writing instructor and he teaches at the Thomas More Institute. He is the Editor in Chief of the Quebec Writers’ Federation’s online literary journal, carte blanche. He is an adoptee of Cambodian, Spanish, and Portuguese descent. He lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with his family. Photo credit: Mollye Miller

Bunkong Tuon

Bunkong Tuon is a Cambodian-American writer and critic. He is the author of Gruel, And So I Was Blessed (both published by NYQ Books), The Doctor Will Fix It (Shabda Press), and Dead Tongue (a chapbook with Joanna C. Valente, Yes Poetry). He has published in both print and online magazines and journals, including Numéro Cinq, Paterson Literary Review, Chiron Review, carte-blanche, Consequence Magazine, Diode Poetry Journal, Mekong Review, Nerve Cowboy, Cultural Weekly, Massachusetts Review, and Poetry Quarterly.Nominated for numerous Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes, his poetry won the 2019 Nasiona Nonfiction Poetry Prize. He teaches at Union College, in Schenectady, NY. He tweets @BunkongTuon

You can pre-order Greg’s new book Ghost Face today! Just email dcbookscanada@gmail.com

Event date:

Friday, August 7, 2020 – 8:00pm

Kate Wake “A dreamlike debut” – Winnipeg Free Press

Mariianne Mays Wiebe’s “dreamlike debut” Kate Wake is “engrossing” with “compelling characters.” Kate Wake explores “… the history of mental health facilities in the early 20th century and Kate Wake’s experience within one. These scenes serve as brutal and terrifying emotional touchstones for Katie’s experience through mental turmoil. Katie’s experience is not the same, but the return to Kate Wake’s past evokes a powerful sense of dread and fear, crystallizing an experience of something that is still somewhat taboo in our current moment: mental illness.”

— The Winnipeg Free Press, 2020

Read Full Review:

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/books/mental-illness-art-woven-through-dreamlike-debut-569562431.html