Adrienne Gruber’s latest book, Buoyancy Control, takes us into watery depths in order to look at our own identities. Described as fierce, ecstatic, and not for the faint of heart, Buoyancy Control has been named a 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2016 Poetry Selection, and is also a CBC Books Spring 2016 Books Preview Selection. Buoyancy Control,
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The May long weekend is a highlight of the spring for many of us, and whether you’re relaxing at a cottage or unwinding in the city, a book that you just can’t put down is always a welcome addition to your plans. Whether you like funny books or thrilling books, novels or poetry, here are five books that
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Take a seat in (the) Waiting Room, the first full-length collection of poetry from award-winning writer Jennifer Zilm. Featured in the CBC Books Spring 2016 Books Preview Selection, and named one of 49th Shelf’s Most Anticipated Spring 2016 Poetry books, Zilm’s work takes us into waiting rooms of all kinds. Featuring a mélange of styles and
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Described as stoic, surprising and provocative, Jacob Wren’s latest book Rich and Poor was named a Most Anticipated Spring 2016 Fiction Selection by 49th Shelf. It was also been chosen as part of Quill and Quire’s Spring 2016 Preview Selection and as part of Big Other’s Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2016. Who hasn’t, at one time
Continue reading »Mother’s day is coming up soon, and although moms (and dads) only get one official day a year, we all know they deserve so much more. In honour of the mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, aunts and uncles, and women and men who hold us all together, here are five books that feature and celebrate mothers,
Continue reading »Book*hug is pleased to announce the launch of a new non-fiction series, the Essais Series. Drawing on the Old and Middle French definitions of essai, meaning first “trial” and then “attempt,” and from which the English word “essay” emerges, the works in the Essais Series challenge traditional forms and styles of cultural enquiry. The Essais
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BookThug is welcoming some new interns this month: Kelly Duval and Stacey Seymour! We (Kelly and Stacey) are MA students at Ryerson’s Literatures of Modernity (MA) program, and we’ll be managing the blog for the next several weeks, as well as helping out at the BookThug headquarters. We’re both really excited to be here, and
Continue reading »Happy Book Birthday to Her Paraphernalia: On Motherlines, Sex/Blood/Loss & Selfies by Margaret Christakos! It’s available now and just in time for Mother’s Day! Heather Birrell reviews Job Shadowing by Malcolm Sutton for The Toronto Star. Birrell writes, “The questions that Sutton is asking are powerful; they illuminate the essential absurdity of our late capitalist milieu. What
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