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The Joy of Reading: discussion with Sandy Crawley of the National Reading Campaign

By Bianca Lakoseljac: OB Writer in Residence  The importance of literacy in all cultures and societies cannot be underestimated. In Canada, it remains one of our main priorities. However, in some parts ...

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 ...

The 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, ...

The 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. ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Featured Video: Book Trailer for Nobody Rides for Free by John Francis Hughes

If recent events have made you feel like hitting the road, you can get inspired by John Francis Hughes' Nobody Rides for Free: A Drifter in the Americas (BookThug). In the book, Hughes relates his sometimes ...

My Inspiration--"...look at me Leonard"

 By Bianca Lakoseljac: Writer in Residence A poet, a musician, a novelist, a philosopher in his own way—a Canadian icon! A man. Yet, why do I think of Leonard Cohen as more than a man—as an immortal? ...

Profile 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 ...

The 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 ...