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  • Poets in Profile: Vivek Shraya
    Poets in Profile: Vivek Shraya
    August 18, 2016

    Poets in Profile: Vivek Shraya

    Multi-talented and multi-genre artist and musician Vivek Shraya is running out of debuts — she has tackled short fiction and the novel and now she's completing her literary hat trick with a gorgeous, ...

  • The Many Colours of Kamal Al-Solaylee
    The Many Colours of Kamal Al-Solaylee
    June 30, 2016

    The Many Colours of Kamal Al-Solaylee

    Kamal Al-Solaylee wrote an amazing book called Brown. It's essential reading and its subtitle, What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone), says why you need to read it much more concisely ...

  • Revenge of the Indie Bookstore
    Revenge of the Indie Bookstore
    June 17, 2016

    Revenge of the Indie Bookstore

    In 2014, when I began booking my Crushes and Mountains US book tour with fellow Toronto-based writer Elisha Lim, I Googled “gay bookstore” or “independent bookstore” in cities we were planning ...

  • How to Give Good Read
    How to Give Good Read
    April 05, 2016

    How to Give Good Read

    In a month, I will be hitting the road to tour my new book of poetry, even this page is white. In addition to trying to manage the general anxieties that arise when putting art into the world, I have ...

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