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February 06, 2025Gwen Lamont's Young Self Writes Her Way Home in The View From Coffin Ridge
As an academic with a deep understanding of the impact of trauma, Gwen Lamont used what she had learned from her own life to bridge the gap between her story and those that she studied and researched. ...
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February 19, 2025Two Women Risk Everything to Escape Communist Poland in Kasia's Jaronczyk's Riveting Debut Novel
Prolific author Kasia Jaronczyk has had works of fiction and nonfiction published widely in journals and anthologies, and her keen voice has long been on display for readers. As an author with Polish ...
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October 07, 2025Jumoke Verissimo's New Poetry Collection CIRCUMTRAUMA is a Haunting Poetic Reckoning
In the fascinating new collection Circumtrauma (Coach House Books), one of Africa’s most celebrated literary voices turns to poetry to reckon with one of the continent’s most haunting histories. ...
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June 20, 2016#WritingTips Mondays: Hilary Mantel - "Be Ready for Anything"
Each week we bring you tips from a different writer as part of our #WritingTips Mondays, and as inspiration for the book you're working on, thinking about, or just dreaming of. This week, Booker Prize ...
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December 20, 2010Hermaphroditism and Literature
Kathleen Winter’s sumptuous, Giller-nominated Annabel, from House of Anansi, tackles the theme of hermaphroditism with gusto. Based on a true story, her book focuses on a child born in late-1960s Labrador, ...
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April 02, 2016The Proust Questionnaire, with Andrew Forbes - Open Book's May 2016 Writer-in-Residence!
We are thrilled to announce that Andrew Forbes is our May 2016 writer-in-residence here at Open Book. Andrew is the author of The Utility of Boredom: Baseball Essays and the short story collection What ...
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March 28, 2017CBC Canada Reads Halfway Point: A Heated Debate Sees M.G. Vassanji's Nostalgia Voted Off
Two of the four days of the 2017 CBC Canada Reads competition have passed, with a surprise tie-breaker on the first day knocking out The Break by Katherena Vermette (House of Anansi), which had been ...
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March 30, 2017André Alexis adds CBC Canada Reads Win to the Accolades for Fifteen Dogs
Canada Reads has wrapped for another year, with a tense final day coming to a close this morning at the CBC studios in Toronto. In a 4-1 vote, André Alexis' novel Fifteen Dogs (Coach House Books) ...
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November 08, 2016The Dirty Dozen with Katherena Vermette
Katherena Vermette's The Break (House of Anansi Press) was nominated for both the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award this year, a rare feat for a first novel. ...
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January 01, 201717 for 2017: Chase Joynt recommends The Best Kind of People
17. The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall recommended by Chase JoyntThroughout my tenure as the December Writer-in-Residence, I have been assembling a list of 17 must-read-books for 2017. To accomplish ...
