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November 21, 2018Naomi M. Moyer, Artist & Author of Black Women Who Dared, on the Books That Shaped Her
Successful business women; fearless anti-slavery activists; tireless healthcare advocates - these are just a few of the deeply inspiring feats represented in Black Women Who Dared by artist Naomi M. ...
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April 22, 2025A Working Actor Feels Destined to Be a Star At Any Cost in Meredith Hambrock's Darkly Comic Novel
Meredith Hambrock's debut novel received acclaim from some lofty heights in the literary world, including The New York Times, and the author is back again to go from strength to strength in yet another ...
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March 06, 2025Acclaimed Author Vijay Khurana Explores the Complexity of Male Friendships in His Debut Novel
With accolades already piling up for his previous writing and translation work, readers will be eager to dig into the debut novel from Vijay Khurana. The author has studied complex relationships dynamics ...
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May 14, 2019"Like a Marilynne Robinson Book in a Spangly Jumpsuit" Missy Marston on Her Fabulous New Daredevil Novel, Bad Ideas
Ottawa-based author Missy Marston's second novel Bad Ideas (ECW Presss), is all heart, packed with humour, vivid and memorable writing, and unforgettable characters. Not to mention it has a rocket ...
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August 09, 2016Doing My Song and Dance
I sent out my first godawful poem for publication when I was ten or eleven years old. I sent it to the Toronto Daily Star; I obviously hadn’t done my market research, since they didn’t publish poetry. ...
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June 21, 2016Love Song for My Bicycle
It’s hot. Summer settles heavily on Toronto. The air is thick. It wraps itself around me like a salamander skin.Walking becomes a waking slow dream. Swimming without any of the freedom of kicking off ...
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November 01, 2024Debut Novelist Anne Hawk Tells a Story of Childhood and Community in The Pages of the Sea
The history of a place is not just the details that can be written down or chronicled in some pragmatic way. Rather, it can be best explored through the people that have lived there, and the patterns ...
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July 20, 2014Craving a Talent Not My Own
Those who work in London are all either going down with flu, recovering from flu or in the grip of flu—even though most of the people going down with flu, recovering from flu or in the grip of flu don’t ...
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October 31, 2020Book Therapy: Peter Counter’s Be Scared of Everything
“Life is all we have and, because we can’t contrast our experience with its absence, its value is unknowable. That’s what makes life a horror show.”—Peter Counter, Be Scared of Everything Lately ...
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August 12, 2024Rajinderpal S. Pal Explores Family Secrets, Painful Compromises, and the Promises We Break in However Far Away
Already a critically acclaimed stage performer and poet, Rajinderpal S. Pal has distilled a secret love affair, cultural complexities, and family drama into his new novel. It's a stunning debut by the ...