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May 09, 2023Alex Manley Offers a Roadmap to Positive Masculinity in a Space Crowded by Toxic Internet Celebrities
In a world where misogynistic online celebrities curate massive followings, toxic masculinity continues to be detrimental to men and women, as well as young people. But as our collective idea of what ...
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August 23, 2023Don Gillmor on Families, Secrets, & the Lockpicking Mom in His Brilliant New Novel
In Don Gillmor's new novel, Breaking and Entering (Biblioasis), Beatrice Billings is stuck in the middle-est of middles. At 49, she's dealing with a stagnant marriage, an ailing mother, and a son who ...
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November 19, 2024A City Teenager Sells Weed with a Side of Egg Rolls to Keep His Family Afloat in Johnny Delivers
Award-winning author and avid world traveler Wayne Ng has found success on the literary scene with his previous works of fiction, using elements from the lived-in experiences of Chinese-Canadian immigrants ...
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January 14, 2025Read an Excerpt from Grandfather of the Treaties by Daniel Coleman
A longstanding academic and scholar, Daniel Coleman arrive at his office at McMaster University one morning to find the place full of police officers. He soon found out that they had been offered lodging ...
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January 15, 2025Award-Winning Author Chelene Knight Shares Savvy Literary Advice in Safekeeping: A Writer’s Guided Journal for Launching a Book with Love
Chelene Knight is renowned not only as an author, but also as a writing mentor and advisor who helps writers navigate their careers and learn best practices to find readers for their books. And now, after ...
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September 10, 2025A Grieving Mother Tries to Undo Death with Her Words and Stories in Susanna Crossman's THE ORANGE NOTEBOOKS
In her latest novel The Orange Notebooks (Assembly Press), award-winning writer Susanna Crossman delves into the raw terrain of grief, memory, and myth. Told through the journals of Anna, a mother confined ...
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September 16, 2025Read an Excerpt from A Precarious Enterprise: Making a Life in Canadian Publishing by Scott McIntyre
Canadian publishing has always been full of fascinating characters and transformative moments, and few people know that story more intimately than Scott McIntyre. With wit, warmth, and a lifetime of experience, ...
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September 30, 2025Celebrating Works by Indigenous Authors in Ontario and Throughout Turtle Island
Modern Indigenous literature published in Ontario and throughout Turtle Island is alive with innovation, resistance, lyricism, and urgency. And the authors we're highlighting. today carry forward traditions, ...
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January 28, 2026Read an Excerpt from ARAB TECHNO FOR THE PEOPLE, a Fascinating Work of Cultural Nonfiction by Jillian Fulton-Melanson
In clubs, basements, and late-night dance floors across Toronto and Montreal, electronic music becomes more than sound. Throughout the pages of Arab Techno for the People: Sonic Responses to Orientalism ...
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November 08, 2017In conversation with Margie Wolfe, publisher of Second Story Press
For almost 30 years, Second Story Press has been at the forefront of publishing books that champion feminism, social justice, and diversity. Orchestrating these efforts is publisher Margie Wolfe, who ...
