This is the sixth instalment of a monthly series examining the ecology of books, the complex interrelationships that together comprise Canada's publishing industry �ro" from small-press proprietors to the country's biggest houses, from booksellers to book bloggers to book reviewers. Today, we explore book publicists through the eyes of Coach House Books' Evan Munday
Guy Maddin, the Canadian filmmaker, and Evan Munday, the publicist for Coach House Books, are discussing Maddin's book, My Winnipeg, a companion to his 2007 film of the same name. It is early March, and they are sitting at a long wooden table on the cozy second floor of the namesake coach house. A box of Timbits rests between them, as do mugs of coffee. The first item of business is Maddin's forthcoming trip to New York for an event at the IFC Center, the art-house movie theatre in Greenwich Village.Projecting confidence: Evan Munday of Coach House Books waits for Guy Maddin's book launch to...

