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March 19, 2020"Don't Throw Anything Out!" Caroline Adderson Talks Her New Book, Writing For Love, and Walking on the Sunny Side
Best pals Pierre and Paul might not speak the same language, but they've got no problem understanding each other!Using their powers of make-believe to create daring adventures out of normal life, the ...
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June 07, 2018Lise Weil on Reconciling Zen and Desire, Visionary Books, & How a Lost Cat Led to Love
The '70s and '80s were a time of radical change and evolution, and the queer community was particularly instrumental in resisting and interrogating the environmental and social crises of that time, the ...
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!["We Approach the Mystery [of Art] in Bafflement... Not in Sureness": A Conversation with Award-Winning Poet Kate Cayley](/var/site/storage/images/news/we-approach-the-mystery-of-art-in-bafflement-not-in-sureness-a-conversation-with-award-winning-poet-kate-cayley/113580-1-eng-CA/We-Approach-the-Mystery-of-Art-in-Bafflement-Not-in-Sureness-A-Conversation-with-Award-Winning-Poet-Kate-Cayley_blog_post_wide.jpg "\"We Approach the Mystery [of Art] in Bafflement... Not in Sureness\": A Conversation with Award-Winning Poet Kate Cayley")
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March 14, 2023"We Approach the Mystery [of Art] in Bafflement... Not in Sureness": A Conversation with Award-Winning Poet Kate Cayley
Decorated multi-genre writer Kate Cayley's new poetry collection, Lent (forthcoming from Book*hug Press) is one of her most exciting books yet, and that is saying something, given that her previous ...
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January 18, 2016Video of the Week: BookThug Interview Series with Jess Taylor, Our February Writer-in-Residence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vCR7pGHOtlMWe're excited to announce that Jess Taylor, whose debut short story collection Pauls (BookThug) has been getting rave reviews, will ...
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April 12, 2018Mark Frutkin on Describing Characters and Writing a Literal Devil's Advocate
In Mark Frutkin's The Rising Tide (Porcupine's Quill), it's 1769 in Venice and things are getting pretty strange. From a man with a skeleton strapped to his back to a courtesan with odd stigmata marks, ...
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April 13, 2016In the House of Saucer: an Interview with Jesse Locke on His Upcoming Simply Saucer Biography, Heavy Metalloid Music
Jesse Locke is one of the great unsung heroes of Canadian music journalism. Through his years of work as a writer and editor for Weird Canada and AUX he has helped to expose countless bands and artists ...
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March 06, 2019Poem-phobia? Read an Excerpt from Adam Sol's How a Poem Moves: A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry
More than any other genre, poetry seems to inspire anxiety in readers about exactly how we should be reading. But maybe it's not as scary as it feels - maybe all it takes to read and love poetry is ...
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July 31, 2024Margaret Nowaczyk Explores the Unexpected Beauty of Being Human in Marrow Memories: Essays of Discovery
In Marrow Memory: Essays of Discovery (Wolsak & Wynn) Margaret Nowaczyk looks deeply at her own life, and the memories and experiences that she has had. Whether those are of a childhood in Communist ...
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April 24, 2025A Thousand Tiny Awakenings is an Anthology That Carries the Hope and Resilence of a New Generation
Independent Ontario publishers continue to amplify the voices of young and marginalized writers, and one of our most interesting new publishing houses, out of mighty Sudbury, has played a significant ...
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November 17, 2022Jamie Tennant on Finding His Way Back to Japan for His Spellbinding New Novel
As a horror movie writer, River Black knows that strange, unsolicited objects can bring trouble with them. But when a mysterious book shows up in her mailbox, she can't resist the urge to find out more. ...