Today, we’re In Conversation with R. Kolewe, author of the long poem The Absence of Zero, a slow-moving haunting work which explores time and memory in both content and form. The following long form interview is a suitable companion to a work of poetry—consisting of 256 16-line quartets, and 34 free-form interruptions—which takes care with […]
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Today’s chapter of Book*hugs Recommend features Book*hug staff along with (some of!) our favourite reads of the year. These are books which stuck with us, made us feel, made us laugh, made us think; satisfied some of our curious, droll, earnest, comedic, speculative, scientific, wanderlusting, metaphysical, intertextual, melancholic, and optimistic—you name it—moods. Read on for […]
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The final instalment of Literary Matchmakers for 2021 features two poets whose elliptical works stretch language to the outer limits of perception and expression. If you are entranced by the life and letters of Paul Celan, please meet R. Kolewe’s The Absence of Zero and Afterletters. Both Celan and Kolewe are preoccupied with memory and its […]
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This next instalment of Literary Matchmakers features two genre-defying/defining authors who traverse and blur categories of autobiography, theory, pop culture, feminism, queerness, art criticism and beyond. If you haven’t already guessed it: Maggie Nelson and Gail Scott! If you liked Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom, you will love Gail Scott’s Permanent Revolution, a collection of new […]
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Back again with the next instalment of Book*hugs Recommend, celebrating the year gone by and the season of book-giving. This round, Billeh Nickerson, Erín Moure, and Aimee Wall share their thoughts on how it felt to have a book come out during the pandemic, the highlights of their reading year, and which books they will […]
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To celebrate the end of the year, which delightfully coincides with the season of book-gifting, we asked some of our 2021 authors to reflect on the year gone by. This round, Therese Estacion, Hasan Namir, Aaron Tucker, and Meghan Bell speak about how it felt to have a book come out during the pandemic, the […]
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Today’s Literary Match features two gifted authors who write towards the hum and thrum of climate disaster. If you liked Jenny Offill’s Weather, you simply must read Talya Rubin’s Iceland Is Melting and So Are You. Offill is a master of brevity, and Weather captures glimpses of climate anxiety amidst the doldrums of daily existence. […]
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Today’s Literary Match is dedicated to the reader who loves rock and roll origin stories and to the music-lover who pays attention to the lyrics. It pairs two formidable artists whose experiments have taken them from the stage to the page and back again: none other than Patti Smith and Meg Remy. If you liked […]
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