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Another independent book store gone
I am sorry to hear that McNally Robinson in Toronto (Shops on Don Mills) has closed its doors. The store, along with the Winnipeg McNally, has closed as part of a larger bankruptcy restructuring. I understand that location would've been hard to get random wandering traffic, especially during the winter.
For those who hadn't visited the store it was an inviting layout with a friendly, knowledgeable staff.
I'm very sad to see the disappearance of another book store that celebrated books unlike warehouse stores that just line up only the most publicized ones alongside the discount socks and underwear.
My warmest regards to those who lost their jobs. I wish you all the best.
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Here is a look at the Intergalactic Gazette Fan Expo 2009 ad artwork.
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Intergalactic Gazette was listed among the Top Funny Books at the CBCRadio's Canada Reads: Book Club.
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Madeleine was recently interviewed by James Marshall. You can read the interview at Hardcorenerdity.com
Intergalactic Gazette
By Madeleine Hart
Will the Intergalactic Gazette have to stop its press forever?
In the cosmopolitan galaxy of Spurious most denizens have no idea what the Intergalactic Gazette is or what reading is, except the rumour that it's something done with eyes (if one happens to have that sort of accessory) causing distractions that make one collide into things - therefore that is another reason reading should remain obsolete: it's pointless AND hazardous.
In fact, if it wasn't already obsolete it should be banned.
Journalist Dube Merrick wasn't having a particularly great day anyway. However, he would have preferred to have a different kind of bad day than the day that this day turned out to be.
The Intergalactic Gazette's only subscribers have stopped paying leaving the galaxy's only print journalist out of work. The paperboy has been abducted. Dube's rare All-Zone Class space-Duster has crashed on one of the most hostile planets in the Spurious galaxy, and his narcissistic door won't let him back inside. To top it off, since Dube has travelled across the Zones, his bad day is equal to just over two weeks.
Meanwhile the very last edition of the Intergalactic Gazette has fallen into the hands of a very eager to evolve Pickle.
Will the Intergalactic Gazette go out of business? Will Dube's door let him back into his broken space-Duster? Is paperboy Leon going to escape his captors and save the day before he loses another sneaker? Is Pickle in line to be the next sapient species, and can she be a species if she is the last of her kind?
And just what does the Universe think about all this?