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A book of Canlit essays that takes you through the "romantic crime-scene after-gashes" of Catullus, to drinking white wine with Steven King in Leaside, to R.M. Vaughn's gentle giant "wounds of love". Throw in Lynne Crosbie for Governor General, the spirituality of hair with Vivek Shraya and how to write a question with Sheila Heti and you have a glimpse of the gems each of these essays unfolds before you. This book is a mausoleum with cultish graffiti and one to be read luscious from cover to cover or dipped into by the coffee table for a knock on the head.