George Toles: 'Status Update'

Bookworm

KCRW

Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

“Status Update,” the mini-narratives of George Toles, accompanied by magnificent art responses from Cliff Eyland.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:04.0	Boots!
0:06.0	Where would we be without boos?
0:11.0	Where would we be without good?
0:15.0	No, Timberg.
0:16.0	It's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we need without books?
0:24.0	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Book Forum.
0:32.7	Today, I'm thrilled to have a very special show.
0:39.3	Our guest is George Tolls.
0:43.6	He is a teacher and writer about film.
0:49.3	He teaches at the University of Manitoba.
0:52.7	I have been close friends with George Touls for around 55 years.
1:00.0	I've watched him blossom and grow.
1:06.1	We've been side by side through many things.
1:10.2	I've watched him become a screenwriter for many of Guy Madden's
1:15.6	movies or a collaborator on them, and now he has written a really magnificent book involving
1:24.2	collaboration. The book is called Status Update, and it's in collaboration with the
1:32.7	recently past Canadian artist Cliff Island. George Tolls is the author of the prose.
1:41.2	It's from At Bay Press, and it's a beautiful book, multi-colored. Each page has a
1:52.0	paragraph, which is referred to as a status update, and an illustration by the wonderful artist Cliff Island who designed many murals for libraries
2:07.7	in Canada. He made art on six-by-five cards, and he'd hide them in library books.
2:18.1	You'd find a work by Cliff Island, if you were lucky, when you borrowed a book.
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