Next up in our Spring 2022 Preview series is Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood edited by Stacey May Fowles and Jen Sookfong Lee! This collection of twenty essays goes beyond the clichés to explore the fraught, beautiful, and complicated relationship between motherhood and creativity. Good Mom on Paper discloses the often-invisible challenges of […]
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Happy Book Birthday to Cane | Fire by Shani Mootoo ???? ????
Today, we celebrate the release of Cane | Fire by internationally celebrated writer and visual artist Shani Mootoo. This collection of poems navigates a complex communion of past and present, drawing on autobiography and the shifting geographies of Mootoo’s life. Read on to learn all about this immersive new work and for information on upcoming […]
Continue readingCelebrating International Women’s Day: Writers on the Women Who Shaped Them
Happy International Women’s Day! In honour of the occasion, we asked a group of Book*hug authors to speak about the female writers who have had an indelible influence on their work. Lindsay Zier-Vogel, Bahar Orang, Nic Brewer, Shannon Webb-Campbell, Therese Estacion, and Meghan Bell share a variety of thoughts and book recommendations. From classics by […]
Continue readingHappy Book Birthday to The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken ????
The Spring 2022 season has officially arrived! Today, we’re kicking off the new season with the release of The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken. A finalist for the 2021 International Booker Prize and currently longlisted for the 2022 Dublin Literary Award novel , The Employees reshuffles a sci-fi voyage […]
Continue readingSpring 2022 Fiction Preview: Bystander by Mike Steeves
Next up in our Spring 2022 Preview series is Mike Steeves’s Bystander, a bold new work of intense psychological realism, and a much anticipated follow up to his critically acclaimed debut novel Giving Up. “I have never been faced with a moral crisis, let alone a matter of life or death.” Peter Simons doesn’t spend […]
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