News Check out The Plotline Bomber of Innisfree author Josh Massey’s recommended reading list, “Locally Sourced” for 49th Shelf. Congratulations Carellin Brooks! One Hundred Days of Rain is a finalist for the Publishing Triangle’s Edmund White Debut Fiction Award. The winners will be announced in NYC on April 21. Adèle Barclay reviews Double Teenage by
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Bookthug’s Spring Fiction Preview continues with Malcolm Sutton, a Toronto-based artist, writer and Bookthug’s very own fiction editor, and his debut novel Job Shadowing. A 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2016 Fiction Selection, Job Shadowing invites readers on an original and fantastical journey through the perils of modern employment, across the self-consciousness of the echo
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Photo Credit: William Benito Moure In 2013, François Turcot invited readers along on an archaeological journey in search for the remnants of his father. The mode of transportation: Mon Dinosaure, Turcot’s fourth book of poetry, released that year by Quebec publisher, La Peuplade. Mon Dinosaure contains several brief, exquisite poems, dug up and dusted with
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Today is International Women’s Day 2016. Today we celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women everywhere. In honour of #IWD2016, we’ve created a recommended reading list of contemporary women writers at BookThug, both emerging and established, that you need to read now. These 12 fierce and brilliant women push at boundaries in
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In Part 2 of our preview of Phil Hall’s latest book, Conjugation, we’re pleased to present an exclusive essay by Phil Hall. Enjoy! Talking Conjugation by Phil Hall . Otty Lake . Sept-Dec 2015 When I first get up, I am half asleep, it is still dark, my glasses are useless, most things don’t exist
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Five kilometers southeast of Perth, ON, on the secluded shores of Otty Lake, poet Phil Hall sits on his porch in the predawn dark, notebook in hand, and observes the early morning’s transformations. As if he were taking dictation, Hall charts the precise progress of day –its transition from first greyness, to vague light then
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