{"id":513,"date":"2011-01-09T11:02:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T16:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mile-end.qc.ca\/?p=513"},"modified":"2013-12-27T20:51:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T01:51:44","slug":"the-obituary-un-roman-sur-les-fantomes-du-mile-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/the-obituary-un-roman-sur-les-fantomes-du-mile-end\/","title":{"rendered":"The Obituary: A novel about Mile End\u2019s ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author\u00a0<strong><em>Gail Scott**<\/em><\/strong> will explain how her writing is written in Mile End, with its layers of stories and people. She will talk about ghosts and the plurality of voices from everywhere in Mile End. She will talk about a &#8220;half-breed&#8221; grandfather and his French \u201cgendarme\u201d admirer in Mile End. And she will read from her novel set in its imaginary triplex located in an alley between\u00a0Saint-Joseph Boulevard\u00a0and\u00a0Villeneuve Street, on the former\u00a0Crystal\u00a0Palace\u00a0grounds.<\/p>\n<p><em>Date and time: <\/em><strong>Sunday 16 January 2011<\/strong><strong>, 3:00 &#8211; 4:15 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Place: <\/em><strong>Mile End Library,\u00a05434 Park Avenue, just south of\u00a0Saint-Viateur Street\u00a0(80 bus)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Languages: <\/em><strong>The lecture will be in French and English, the readings will be in English, and the discussion will be in French and English<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Cost: <\/em><strong>Free<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Reservations: <\/em><strong>Not necessary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Information: <\/em><strong><a href=\"mailto:info@mile-end.qc.ca\">info@mile-end.qc.ca<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/MME-affiche.110116.Gail_Scott.pdf\">Download the poster<\/a><\/strong> (PDF format)<\/p>\n<p><em>*\u00a0<strong>Mile End Memories<\/strong><\/em> is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the heritage, history and culture of the Mile End neighbourhood. The preliminary program of activities for 2011 may be found <a href=\"\/calendar\/?lang=en\">here<\/a>. Reserve\u00a0<strong>Sunday 13 February 2011, 3-4:15 p.m.,<\/strong> for a presentation by\u00a0<strong>Karen Herland<\/strong> on\u00a0<strong>Prostitution in Mile End<\/strong>; details to follow!<\/p>\n<p>** Other novels by<em> <strong>Gail Scott<\/strong><\/em> include<em> Main Brides, My Paris <\/em>and\u00a0<em>Heroine.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author\u00a0Gail Scott** will explain how her writing is written in Mile End, with its layers of stories and people. She will talk about ghosts and the plurality of voices from everywhere in Mile End. She will talk about a &#8220;half-breed&#8221; grandfather and his French \u201cgendarme\u201d admirer in Mile End. And she will read from her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2278,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/2278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}