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November 11, 2024Read an Excerpt from Satellite Image, the New Novel from Michelle Berry
Avid readers who are fans of acclaimed author Michelle Berry will be thrilled to find her new novel on bookstore shelves. The prolific Peterborough-based writer has penned three story story collections ...
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December 09, 2024Julie Salverson Takes the Reader on a Fascinating Journey Through Her Father's Life in A Necessary Distance
A multi-faceted creative, Julie Salverson has left a significant literary footprint over the course of her career, working as a nonfiction writer, playwright, editor, scholar and theatre animator. The ...
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December 10, 2024Two Cultures Collide in an Essential Memoir About Japanese-Canadian Cultural Resilience by Suzanne Elki Yoko Hartmann
Though too-often overlooked in discussions about Canada during and after World War II, the experiences of Japanese-Canadians during that time are a window into the fearmongering and xenophobia that must ...
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December 12, 2024In Dangerous Memory, Charlie Angus Unpacks the 1980s and the Many Ways that the Decade Still Haunts Us
Coming of age in the 1980s is something that if often seen romanticized or parodied in popular culture, with some of the more ridiculous and lively touchstones of the era featured in film, literature, ...
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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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November 03, 2025Open Book Takes in TIFA 2025 at Victoria College in the University of Toronto
From October 29th to November 2nd, the Toronto International Festival of Authors took place with an adjusted format and a brand new location at University of Toronto's majestic Victoria College. Long ...
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August 29, 2025Ryad Assani-Razaki Reaches for Hope in THE HAND OF IMAN
Dreams are a rare commodity in Ryad Assani-Razaki’s debut novel, now available to English-language readers in a striking translation. Set in an unnamed African country where urban sprawl collides with ...
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November 26, 2025Charlie Petch's INFINITE AUDITION is an Unpredictable, Theatrical Poetic Tour de Force
Our featured title today comes from Charlie Petch, a celebrated artist who explores transmasculine and disabled perspectives in their writing. Their work invites readers to engage with art that refuses ...
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May 13, 2014Words & Curds: Alena Graedon, Author of the Word Exchange
On April 23, I met with debut American author Alena Gradeon, who just released her first novel, a language-based dystopian thriller called The Word Exchange, published by Random House Canada. Graedon, ...
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July 19, 2017Fifth Business; First-Person Shooter - Whither the Great Video Game Adaptation?
When an author mentions a book adaptation, the next question the author fields is invariably about casting. The book adaptation is assumed to be a film or television series. After all, books have provided ...
