Librairie
Drawn & Quarterly

Montréal, QC

Librairie
Drawn & Quarterly

Montréal, QC

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D+Q's holiday party was pretty all right, you guys

December 4, 2018

D+Q's holiday party was pretty all right, you guys

It's been a few years since D+Q had a holiday party. We've had a wonderful year on the publishing side including a historic Man Booker Prize nomination and on our brick and mortar retail side, La Petite Librairie D+Q is celebrating its one year anniversary, and our retail director Rebecca Lloyd is back from mat leave, so we had plenty to celebrate!

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Marketing Assistant Rachel Davies and publishing fellow Nathalie Marsh have very exacting party standards. Will their standards be met?
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D+Q's fine arts staffer Saelan Twerdy chatting with author Jacob Wren (Authenticity is a Feeling)
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The inimitable Elise Gravel (The Mushroom Fan Club) gets tough but fair advice from cartoonist Mirion Malle (Commando Culotte)
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Chris "The Chief" Oliveros catches up with Montreal Gazette books columnist Ian McGillis
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D+Q cartoonist Julie Delporte (Everywhere Antennas) signs our guestbook while writer, poet, translator and Librairie D+Q alum Daphne B prefers to express herself in real time
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Chris and Production Manager Alison Naturale swear they didn't coordinate outfits
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Store staffers Chantal Houtteman, Rachel Wallace, and manager Luke Langille!
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Marina Lesenko, Ariella Freedman (Arabic for Beginners), and translator Helge Dascher talk about how small the office used to be...
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176 children's coordinator/buyer Arizona O'Neill knows that bookstagrams wait for no woman.
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Julie Delporte holding her February 2019 release This Woman's Work, flanked by both translators extraordinaire Helge Dascher and Aleshia Jensen
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Aura and her new BFF didn't need anyone else at their party
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Executive Editor and junior mixologist Tom taking a break from creating signature cocktails with librarian Julia Stark and famous knitter Kate Gilbert.
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Well this photo is just cute. Michelle Bensimon of Caveboy and Tracy Hurren
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Don't those plates ooze glamourous nondenominational holiday vibes?
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Teen corner! YA Book Club Host Gigi Devlin and her bestie Amita
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We <3 small biz! Penny from Depanneur le Pickup definitely isn't trying to get Ed back at the grill. Pick up Ed's new book MadeMythos in store and have it giftwrapped with the paper he designed for us!
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An incredibly talented group of current and former staff - Retail Director Rebecca Lloyd, Aleshia Jensen, Daphne B, Kira Poirer, and fiction staffer Chantale Potie.
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We don't know what Matt Forsythe (The Brilliant Deep, The Gold Leaf) has planned but we don't trust it! With D+Q copyeditor (and McGill-Queens managing editor) Kathleen Fraser and Alison Naturale.
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Woody's keeping his eye on on you Meyer Billurcu (Blue Skies Turn Black)!
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Connor Willumsen (Anti-Gone), Ed, Hartley Lin (Young Frances), and Matt handle the paparazzi with aplomb.
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Look, sometimes as the evening goes on, the photos get blurrier. But good cheer persists with 176 kids store staffer Chantal Houtteman, former D+Qer Sophie Croteau and our magazines and lifestyle staffer Alyssa Favreau.
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It's almost as if Rachel Wallace and Catherine Debard are wary of the photographer's skills.
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Store staffers Kennedy Rooke and Lauriane Angers-Gauthier and Marketing Director Julia smile as if they've done this before.
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You had to be there, but Nathalie's attempt at physical comedy was very admirable. With her is Luke, former D+Qer Courtney Baird-Lew, Store Poetry Staffer Benjamin Bush-Anderson, and former D+Qer Kira Poirier.
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Montreal comedians and bon vivants Marilis Cardinal, Nancy Webb, and Tatyana Olal with Senior Editor Tracy.
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Cool kids hang in the dark hall, doncha know.
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The smize triumphs! Penny, Jacob, Sean Michaels (Us Conductors), and infamous bagel expert Joseph Rosen.
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The Lesenko-Oliveroses and Devlin-Burnses stake their hereditary claims. JK... or are they!
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Thank you to everyone who came, and happy holidays to all of you! Special thanks to D+Q Publisher Peggy Burns who took all of the photos. Once a publicist, always a publicist!

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