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July 30, 2020Read an Excerpt from Bahar Orang's Where Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty
Author Bahar Orang's Where Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty (Book*hug), is an exploration of beauty and its role in the human experience: what we love, care for, and value. Part essay, part poetry, ...
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December 05, 2024An Important Chair Cares for Two Special People in a Poignant New Picture Book From Rebecca Thomas
Inspired by her own upbringing, and particularly by a profound love for her grandfather, Rebecca Thomas has distilled the poignant details of this relationship into a moving picture book that captures ...
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December 11, 2024Kevin Stebner's New Poetry Collection Breaks Down the Beauty of Typographical Shapes to Reveal their Inherent Voices
The newly founded Assembly Press has already started making waves on the CanLit scene with unique and exciting titles that will resound with savvy readers, and they've published a real gem in polymath Kevin ...
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January 10, 2023Read an Excerpt from Chelsea Wakelyn's Darkly Funny, Deeply Moving Story of Grief, What Remains of Elsie Jane
Grief comes with a lot of "supposed to" attached to it. You're not supposed to be a mess. You're not supposed to ever laugh. And you're definitely not supposed to solicit a space-time wizard on Craigslist ...
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January 06, 2022"Ubuntu Has Gone From a Reminder to an Urgency" Chidiogo Akunyili-Parr on Inhabiting Her Revolutionary Mother's Voice & Philosophy
Dr. Dora Akunyili was a Nigerian pharmacologist who spent her life crusading against a scourge of counterfeit drugs in her country—drugs that were responsible for the deaths of millions, including Akunyili's ...
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January 25, 2023Read an Excerpt from Film Critic Thom Ernst's Spellbinding & Heartbreaking Memoir of His Childhood
Thom Ernst, known for his role hosting TVO's beloved Saturday Night at the Movies for nearly 10 years, has carved a space for himself as a respected film critic and thinker. But long before he was ...
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![banner image of author David Kingston Yeh in front of a red brick wall with white chalk drawings. Text reads interview with David Kingston Yeh. I keep a light tone [but] I am still writing to disrupt. Open Book logo bottom left](/var/site/storage/images/news/gay-love-is-so-punk-rock-david-kingston-yeh-on-wrapping-up-his-celebrated-toronto-trilogy/120649-1-eng-CA/Gay-Love-is-So-Punk-Rock-David-Kingston-Yeh-on-Wrapping-Up-His-Celebrated-Toronto-Trilogy_blog_post_wide.jpg "banner image of author David Kingston Yeh in front of a red brick wall with white chalk drawings. Text reads interview with David Kingston Yeh. I keep a light tone [but] I am still writing to disrupt. Open Book logo bottom left")
![banner image of author David Kingston Yeh in front of a red brick wall with white chalk drawings. Text reads interview with David Kingston Yeh. I keep a light tone [but] I am still writing to disrupt. Open Book logo bottom left](/var/site/storage/images/news/gay-love-is-so-punk-rock-david-kingston-yeh-on-wrapping-up-his-celebrated-toronto-trilogy/120649-1-eng-CA/Gay-Love-is-So-Punk-Rock-David-Kingston-Yeh-on-Wrapping-Up-His-Celebrated-Toronto-Trilogy_blog_post.jpg "banner image of author David Kingston Yeh in front of a red brick wall with white chalk drawings. Text reads interview with David Kingston Yeh. I keep a light tone [but] I am still writing to disrupt. Open Book logo bottom left")
October 13, 2023"Gay Love is So Punk Rock" David Kingston Yeh on Wrapping Up His Celebrated Toronto Trilogy
The B-Side of Daniel Garneau (Guernica Editions) is the final instalment in David Kingston Yeh's iconic trilogy exploring queer love in Toronto, which started with A Boy at the Edge of the World (2018) ...
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January 16, 2024Jonathan Rose Explores Survival, Heroism, and the Cost of Unintended Celebrity in After the Flames
Surviving a devastating fire, especially one that causes grevious bodily injury, is an immense challenge for any individual. Especially if they have done so with burns so severe that no one has ever experienced ...
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July 30, 2024Read an Excerpt from The Education of Aubrey McKee by Alex Pugsley
Award-winning writer and filmmaker Alex Pugsley has reached the middle of his recent trilogy of novels, with the author bringing the reader back into the world of Aubrey Mckee, who is winding his way ...
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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 ...