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Soundtrack: A Lyric Memoir

Soundtrack: A Lyric Memoir


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Is a song enough to hold all the truths we cannot bear without it? From award-winning writer Michael V. Smith comes a poetic memoir about growing up gay in the shadow of AIDS. Embodying an elusive part of queer history, these song and album-inspired pieces capture the last three decades of the millennium and reveal how music has an uncanny ability to remind us not just where we were at a given moment in time but who we were. With his signature humour and tenderness, and guided by the music of the era, Smith catalogues social prejudices, court rulings, and medical breakthroughs, alongside personal devastations, triumphs, and the search for community. From a first crush toting a Michael Jackson Thriller cassette, to falling in love to the music of Jane Siberry, to dancing at a gay bar to "Groove Is in the Heart," Soundtrack is a moving personal record of a man who survived the lost generation and a vital document of queer joy.

About the Author :
MICHAEL V. SMITH is a writer, performer, and filmmaker. His poetry has been shortlisted for the ReLit Award, his fiction has been shortlisted for the Journey Prize and Amazon Canada First Novel Award, and his queer memoir My Body Is Yours was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award. Smith is the winner of a Western Magazine Award, numerous film awards, and the inaugural Dayne Ogilvie Prize from the Writers' Trust of Canada. He is currently a professor in Kelowna, BC, where he lives with his husband on the unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan people.

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"Michael V. Smith is at it again. Soundtrack gives us an arc we so rarely get, one in which all our preteen longings, our teenage mistakes, our frailties and traumas are just the first verse of a killer song, and it's building to a delirious, cocky, ecstatic final chorus." --Marcus McCann, author of Park Cruising "Looking back in time through the prism of music Michael V. Smith crystallizes moments from life, homing in on the safe space music makes for a queer kid, enhancing details or bearing witness to trauma or just letting us live forever even during a plague. This collection is like pulling a well-loved vinyl record from the sleeve and knowing even before you drop the needle you are going deep." --Brent Bambury, CBC Broadcaster "Soundtrack is a songbook that thrums with heart, hilarity, and moments of brilliance so sharp, wise, and tender I'll carry them with me forever. Soundtrack is a testament to the poetics of living and the power of music through Michael V. Smith's essential kaleidoscope of lenses: queer artist, activist, writer, radical, drag diva, humourist, poet, documentarian, and personal DJ." --Andrea Warner, author of We Oughta Know: How Céline, Shania, Alanis, and Sarah Ruled the '90s and Changed Music


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  • ISBN-13: 9781771669498
  • Publisher: Book*hug
  • Publisher Imprint: Book*hug
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 190
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  • Sub Title: A Lyric Memoir
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1771669497
  • Publisher Date: 30 Sep 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
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  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Weight: 344 gr


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