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May 26, 2020Read an Excerpt from Anita Lahey's Touching New Memoir 'The Last Goldfish'
When a teenage Anita Lahey met her best friend Louisa in high school, their connection was immediate and powerful. From that day on, the two girls would spend their formative days navigating the pains ...
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August 30, 2016The Lucky Seven Interview, with Mike Barnes
The Adjustment League (Biblioasis) is the first instalment in a new noir trilogy by Mike Barnes. This first book sees the patients of a psychiatric hospital coming together to form the titular league, ...
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February 28, 2022"She Saved Our Lives, But it Cost Her a Great Deal" March Writer-in-Residence Amanda West Lewis on the Story Behind Her New YA Novel
It's a daunting task to take on capturing New York City in the 60s, but Amanda West Lewis is more than up to the job in her tough, compelling, autobiographically inspired young adult novel These Are ...
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December 18, 2024Georges Erasmus's Fifty-Year Battle for Indigenous Rights is Chronicled in Hòt'a! Enough!
Over the past fifty years, there has perhaps been no more significant voice in the fight for Indigenous rights than that of Georges Erasmus, a Dene leader who has worked tirelessly to challenge governments ...
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July 25, 2025Read an Excerpt from Trachea and Other Stories, a New Work of Linked Fiction from Mayank Bhatt
A long-time fixture on the Toronto literary scene, Mayank Bhatt has built a reputation for his fiction for nearly three decades now, and his latest work of linked stories will only add to his readership.In ...
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October 27, 2025Read an Excerpt from THE SEASIDE CAFÉ METROPOLIS, the Highly Anticipated New Novel from Antanas Sileika
In his brilliantly comic and deeply human new novel The Seaside Café Metropolis (Cormorant Books), widely celebrated author Antanas Sileika invites readers into the absurd, tender, and truth-filled ...
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April 11, 2024Melanie Marttila Shows the Reader How She Moves Through the World in The Art of Floating
Inspired by the natural world and landscapes of northeastern and southwestern Ontario, and by personal, intimate moments in a person's life, Melanie Marttila has written a new collection of poems that ...
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May 16, 2014Words & Curds: Ed Piskor & Tom Scioli, Pittsburgh Cartoonists Extraordinaire
On May 6, Toronto's streets were already alive with cartoonists and comic book artists. The Toronto Comic Arts Festival was just days away and a number of acclaimed comic-makers were roaming the city's ...
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August 03, 2018"What's Your Story?" Read the Winning Texts of the 2018 OBPO Writing Contest Winners! Part Four: East Toronto
It feels too fast every year - the end of summer is once again in sight. Make the most of our remaining warm days by packing in great summer reading - and today you can discover brand new reads right ...
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February 02, 2016Poets in Profile: Majlinda Bashllari
Majlinda Bashllari published her first poetry collection in Albania in 2007. Less than ten years later the Toronto-based poet has released her first English language collection, Love is a very long word ...
