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November 19, 2016
The Art of the Novel: Interview with Amanda Hale
By Bianca Lakoseljac: OB Writer in ResidenceI have been fortunate to work with Amanda Hale at various writers’ events. In April, at Authors for Indies, we volunteered as book-sellers at Another Story ...
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November 17, 2016
Stranger than Fiction: discussion with Steven Beattie and Dr. Laurence Scott
By Bianca Lakoseljac: OB Writer in Residence. As a fiction writer, I often find myself wondering how the world we live in is reflected in the world we create in our stories, and how the stories we create ...
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November 17, 2016The In Character interview with John Jantunen
Guelph-based author John Jantunen's A Desolate Splendor (ECW Press) is an end-of-the-world tale told in multiple voices. Hidden in the wild outskirts of a world forced back into a pre-technology existence, ...
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November 16, 2016The Lucky Seven interview with Rolli
Tense, dark, unexpected, and revelatory -- there's a lot of atmosphere and emotion packed into Rolli's The Sea-Wave (Guernica Editions), and its slim footprint, at 168 pages, makes it all the more impressive. ...
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November 15, 2016“You can't write fiction on a napkin,” an Interview with Eva H.D.
There is a strand of literature that aligns itself closer to the blue collar, working class values of general communication and accessible story telling than the “high-brow,” all encompassing grand ...
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November 14, 2016
The Art of the Novel: Interview with Antanas Sileika
By Bianca Lakoseljac: OB Writer in Residence The Art of the Novel: Interview with Antanas SileikaFor over two decades, Antanas Sileika’s novels and short stories have been an inspiration to me--they ...
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November 10, 2016Profile on Michelle Berry’s Hunter Street Books, with a few questions
This month, Peterborough author Michelle Berry has opened up her new bookstore, Hunter Street Books (164 Hunter Street West, Peterborough), becoming (according to Kawartha Now) “the first return of ...
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November 10, 2016The Lucky Seven interview with Tom Malleson
Between the Lines Books' Fired Up series asks readers to think critically about social, cultural, and economic issues. The first instalment in the series is activist and professor Tom Malleson's Fired ...
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November 02, 2016The WAR Series: Writers as Readers, with Katherine Ashenburg
Katherine Ashenburg's All the Dirt: A History of Getting Clean (Annick Press) gets pretty filthy, but it's still appropriate (and irresistible) for its middle grade audience, because this dirt is the ...
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October 27, 2016The Lucky Seven interview, with Erin Wunker
As conversations around feminism continue to evolve and gain momentum, there are still plenty of detractors and critics of the movement for gender equality. Simply being a woman with a public presence ...
