This May, Coach House Books is proud to publish Shawn Micallef's first book STROLL: PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIC WALKING TOURS OF TORONTO, featuring illustrations and maps by Marlena Zuber. We're holding a rollicking launch party on Tuesday, May 18, and you're all invited.

Shawn Micallef has been involved with such city-based projects and publications as [murmur], Spacing, Eye Weekly and the new Yonge Street online magazine. His book (a co-publication with Eye Weekly) features a collection of Micallef's psychogeographic reportages -- some of which have been featured in Eye Weekly and Spacing magazine -- that situate Toronto’s buildings and streets in living, breathing detail, and tell us about the people who use them, the ways they are being used and how they are evolving.

Stroll celebrates Toronto’s details -- some subtle, others grand -- at the speed of walking and helps us better know its many neighbourhoods, taking us from well-known spots like the CN Tower and Pearson Airport to the overlooked corners of Scarborough and all the way to the end of the Leslie Street Spit in Lake Ontario. The book features thirty-two walks, a flâneur manifesto, a foreword by architecture critic John Bentley Mays, dozens of hand-drawn maps and illustrations by Marlena Zuber and a full-colour fold-out orientation map of Toronto.

The launch for Stroll will be held on Tuesday, May 18, at the Lula Lounge. Be there as Eye Weekly's Edward Keenan chats with Shawn Micallef live on-stage! We'll also have a number of fun activities and cap it all off with a dance party, DJ'ed by the Track Meet trio.

'Shawn Micallef looks at the city in a way we all should more often -- he sees it as a living book that is alive with stories just waiting to be told to the attentive observer.'
– David Crombie, former mayor of Toronto

'A smart and intimate guide to the city that makes you feel like an insider from start to finish.' – Douglas Coupland

For media requests, please contact Evan Munday at evan@chbooks.com or 416.979.2217.