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August 16, 2016The Lucky Seven Interview, with Malcolm Sutton
Malcolm Sutton wears many hats in the literary world — fiction editor, art writer, founder of a boundary-pushing literary magazine, and more. After publishing short fiction in outlets like Maisonneuve ...
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August 15, 2016The Final Days of Summer Reading
As we find ourselves in last gasps of summer (how is it already August?) it’s time to park it on the back porch and really focus on that list of carefully chosen seasonal reads.The summer book really ...
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August 15, 2016You Pays Your Money & You Takes Your Chances
A ticker-tape parade broke out in my home the other day, when my basement excavations revealed a box of old paperbacks that contained my treasured copy of Robert Sheckley’s 1975 science-fiction novel ...
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August 12, 2016Pleasant Days … with Stu and Crad
My basement excavations — the chaotic and ecstatic unpacking of dozens of boxes of cryogenically preserved books — recently produced a copy of a chapbook I haven’t thought about in decades. Pleasant ...
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August 12, 2016Tokenism vs. Inclusion
Last month, I wrote a piece about my frustrations with the lack of diversity in Canada’s publishing industry. In the comments, it was mentioned that while some folks are trying to make improvements, ...
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August 11, 2016The Entitled Interview with D. D. Miller
Roller derby is one of the fastest growing and most unique sports in the world right now. The game has spawned an active, vocal, international community, and D. D. Miller, in his role as "the Derby Nerd" ...
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August 09, 2016The In Character Interview with Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler
A bizarre illness, mysterious fossils, and professional rivalries combine in 1872 North Ontario in Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler's Wrist (Kegedonce Press), an Indigenous monster story. A hundred years later, ...
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August 05, 2016The Lucky Seven Interview, with Eve Zaremba
The Toronto Women’s Bookstore, Interval House, Rape Crisis Centres, and Broadside: A Feminist Review — Eve Zaremba's legacy for women in Toronto and beyond is so far-reaching it's hard to summarize. ...
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August 04, 2016The Entitled Interview with Jenny Kay Dupuis
Dr. Jenny Kay Dupuis's family and personal history led her to write I Am Not a Number (Second Story Press) with Kathy Kacer, a book which tackles the difficult and tragic history of residential schools ...
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August 02, 2016The Lucky Seven Interview, with Liam Card
In Stopgap (Dundurn Press) Liam Card brings his screenwriting background to his second novel, creating a tense, otherworldly pageturner with a wildly creative premise. In Stopgap, Luke Stevenson has been ...