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May 30, 2024Allyson McOuat's Essays Conjure Haunts and Ward Them Off in The Call is Coming From Inside the House
Allyson McOuat turned heads back in 2020 when her fabulous essay, The Ghost Was the Least of Our Problems, was published in The New York Times. With a signature mix of intimacy, humour, and haunting ...
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May 27, 2024Li Charmaine Anne's Characters Carve Asphalt and a Place For Themselves in the World in Crash Landing
When you're a teenager, finding your own place is more than just a matter of comfort – it can feel more like a matter of survival. For Jay Wong, the waning days of the summer before senior year mean ...
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July 09, 2024Read an Excerpt from Nauetakuan, a silence for a noise by Natasha Kanapé Fontaine
Reconnection and rediscovery are at the heart of the newly translated novel by Innu author, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, and her poetry and essays have already left an imprint on the literary world in the ...
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October 28, 2024Kris Vanessa Teo Xin-En's New Cross-Cultural Drama Warms Hearts and Challenges Stereotypes
Prolific artist Kris Vanessa Teo Xin-En has shown vast range in her career as a playwright, performer, director, producer, and co-artistic director, and her latest work is a cross-cultural drama about ...
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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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November 20, 2024Chris MacDonald Chronicles Two Friends' Revelatory Adventure Across the UK with a Truly Special 90's Punk Band
On a backpacking trip through the UK in 1999, Chris MacDonald and his friend Jason found themselves roughing it from country to country. They slept where they could, and were witness to a number of ...
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June 04, 2025Jordana Globerman Makes a Stunning Debut with the Beautiful and Heady Graphic-Novel, Soul Machine
Comic book writer and illustrator Jordana Globerman makes a stunning debut this season with her new graphic novel, Soul Machine (Annick Press). It's a profound and stirring work that is being billed ...
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June 24, 2025Fantasy-Adventure Readers Will Be Enthralled by Tonia Laird's New Novel, Seventhblade
Our featured author today, Tonia Laird, has had a fascinating and unique journey in storytelling, with multiple publications in magazines and journals and a career in the video game industry as a lorekeeper, ...
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December 01, 2015Eighty Feet Without a Net - Conversations with John Irving
About a year ago I got an email that I had to read about twelve times over before it really settled in. That email was from Janet Turnbull Irving, the wife and agent of one of the most famous literary ...
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June 03, 2024The 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize Finalists Discuss Their Work
In just a few days, the Griffin Poetry Prize will hand out the largest monetary poetry award in the world to one special book and it's author(s). Each year, we cover the prize by featuring a roundtable ...