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As many of us in publishing race across international borders for trade shows and conferences, our books can lag months behind us in “staggered” releases — a pattern rightly called into question.

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As Vancouver-based publishing start-up BitLit amasses tens of thousands of “shelfies” from readers, it’s starting to draw early profiles of what’s on those bookshelves — so publishers can offer ebooks to bundle with fans’ print copies.

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I am who I am.  I cannot change it, nor do I want to.  I’m comfortable in my skin, figuratively and literally.

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“It’s like a made-for-TV movie.”

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1. She throws a tantrum when she doesn’t get her own way. Her hockey team lost, which makes it time to smash in windows and steal nothing but Louis Vuitton bags and Pringles. Sounds a lot like retail therapy.

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The city erupted. People spilled into the streets. Like a pack of migrating wildebeests, the drunken hockey faithful formed a collective whole and pushed towards the TD Garden.

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Vancouver is ethnically diverse, but everyone shares the Canucks. Indeed, during Game 5, the arena seemed less of a sporting venue than a mega-church. And on the streets afterwards, you could hardly move – it was a roiling, animal energy.

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One explanation is that Good has been trying to run away from the mainstream, radio-ready music of his former band for years, and at the Ballroom, his behavior could be seen as apprehension; everyone was calling out for him to play “Apparitions,” unarguably the Matthew Good Band’s biggest hit. In the CBC interview he expressed his dread of fans “crowd-surfing to ‘Apparitions.’”