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  • Special Feature: Book*hug Press
    Special Feature: Book*hug Press
    November 25, 2019

    Special Feature: Book*hug Press

    On November 2, 2019, a throng of enthusiastic word nerds gathered at Harbourfront Centre to toast Book*hug Press on its fifteenth anniversary. It was an appropriate venue in which to celebrate, given ...

  • Pivot Readings
    Pivot Readings
    June 18, 2019

    All Booked Up - Pivot Reading Series

    The roots of Pivot Readings stretch back to 1998, when poet Paul Vermeersch started a fiction and poetry reading series in Toronto’s adorably dilapidated I.V. Lounge. When that venue closed in 2008, ...

  • Special Feature: Dundurn Press
    Special Feature: Dundurn Press
    October 06, 2017

    Special Feature: Dundurn Press

    Words and Photos by Elyse Friedman. In 1972, Kirk Howard was a young man living in Sarnia and teaching Canadian studies. He noticed a dearth of homegrown books to use in his history and literature classes, ...

  • Special Feature: Coach House Books
    Special Feature: Coach House Books
    June 02, 2017

    Special Feature: Coach House Books

    One evening every September, a back laneway in Toronto fills with writers, artists, publishers and other bookish types. They gather at the annual Coach House Books Wayzgoose to raise a glass to one of ...

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