I’m always curious to know what other people are reading. I love encountering the texts they choose to read or are obsessed by or wade into or simply find themselves reading. Reading opens onto territories at once intimate and impersonal. To me, this is extraordinary. Reading disentangles subjectivity from feeling and offers the lapsing of […]
Continue readingMonthly Archives: November 2013
From Michael Blouin: The Thing about Ice Fishing is that it’s Cold as a Dead Bastard and You Hardly Ever Catch Any Fish
“I never like to see a man in a suit, you know what I mean? A man in a suit is up to something I think. And it’s never something good. Unless he’s dead. And even then…” I’m ice fishing. Ice fishing is like a code phrase for drinking outside in the winter. “You’re saying […]
Continue readingWeekly Roundup November 23-29
Saturday November 23 Launch: Dragnet Issue 9 | 8:00 p.m. | Smiling Buddha Bar, 961 College Street | Featuring readings from Evan Munday, Catriona Wright, and Bardia Sinaee | $5 Sunday November 24 Toronto Poetry Slam | 8:00 p.m., sign up at 7:30 | The Drake Underground, | Twelve slam poets compete against each other […]
Continue readingAuthor in Profile: David B. Goldstein
While I was writing [Laws of Rest], I felt that all language was alive…I don’t get too concerned with how my work fits together—I just try to explore fully whatever compels me, and hope that I end up in a place I didn’t anticipate. —David B. Goldstein David B. Goldstein is one of BookThug’s three […]
Continue readingWeekly Roundup Nov 15-21
Friday November 15 Launch: The Stories That Are Great Within Us | Nov 15 & 16, 6:00 p.m. | Windup Bird Café, 382 College Steet | Enjoy dinner, drinks, and readings from a variety of authors to celebrate the publication of a book that took over three years in the making. Reading authors include Austin […]
Continue readingJoin us at the Indie Literary Market this Saturday, Nov 16
This Saturday, November 16, Meet the Presses will present its Fall 2013 Indie Literary Market. This curated event will showcase small Canadian literary presses and magazines, from the tiniest micropresses to the biggest of the small, from noon to 4:30 p.m. at the Tranzac Club (292 Brunswick Street). Participating presses and zines will have books, […]
Continue readingWeekly Roundup, Nov 8-15
BookThug’s weekly roundup brings together workshops, events, readings, and deadlines happening (Friday to Friday) in the GTA. Friday November 8 Book Launch: Strip by Andrew Binks | 6:00 p.m. | Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander Street | Nightwood Editions presents a launch for Andrew Binks’ novel Strip | FREE Saturday November 9 OTTAWA: […]
Continue readingInterview with Stan Dragland, author of DEEP TOO
As for Deep Too, I didn’t set out to write a book about anything in particular. In fact I didn’t set out to write a book. I started writing out some stories that happened to fall together on the subject of male washrooms – odd experiences I’ve had that were mostly funny. I used to […]
Continue readingAuthor in Profile: Sandra Ridley
Falling – not always a dropping to the ground construed as rhyme not death not a literal fall or heartbreak instead (but) any other form of respective bending. – “A General Tale” Sandra Ridley composes silence, a considered hush, and a tension so taut that it hums. – rob mclennan Sanrda Ridley’s most recent collection […]
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