Our final Preview for the Fall 2022 Season features Hunger Heart by Karen Fastrup, translated from Danish by Marina Allemano. Hunger Heart is a sensual, profound book about love, relationships, mental illness, and recovery by one of Denmark’s most celebrated literary writers. In 2009, we published Fastrup’s beautiful novel, Beloved of My Twenty-seven Senses (translated by […]
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Hello booklovers! My name is Sana, and I am Book*hugs newest intern. I started working at Book*hug during my placement for my MA program, and I’m so delighted to continue working here! My time at Book*hug has been great, and I am having so much fun learning new things about the publishing industry, specifically independent […]
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Today’s Fall 2022 Preview highlights David Dowker’s new, multilayered poetry collection, Dissonance Engine. Amidst poems about loss, melancholy, love, connection, longing and the natural world, Dowker scours the dissonance engine of the media spectacle, to stare into gnostic estrangement and question the “time-sensitive material” of language. “Dissonance Engine is a fantastic machine: part gears, part […]
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For today’s Fall 2022 Preview, we are sharing an excerpt from Tree Abraham’s genre bending non-fiction work, Cyclettes! Part travelogue, part philosophical musing, Tree Abraham’s work probes the millennial experience, asking what a young life can be when unshackled from traditional role expectations yet still living in consistent economic and environmental uncertainty. Text is interspersed between […]
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Today, we celebrate the release of Junie by Chelene Knight! Read on to learn all about this highly anticipated debut novel from one of the Rising Stars of CanLit and for news on a series of exciting upcoming events featuring Chelene Knight! Happy Book Birthday to Junie by Chelene Knight! This work of literary historical fiction […]
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Today’s Fall 2022 Preview features Participation by Anna Moschovakis! In this latest novel from Moschovakis, acclaimed writer, and winning translator of the 2020 International Booker Prize, two reading groups, Love and Anti-Love, convene digitally amidst political upheaval and undefined environmental catastrophe. Participation offers a prescient look at remote communication in a time of rupture: anonymous participants […]
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Today, we celebrate the release of Vox Humana by Adebe DeRango-Adem! Read on to learn all about this remarkable poetry collection. Happy book birthday to Vox Humana by Adebe DeRango-Adem! This first title in our Fall 2022 season and Most Anticipated Fall 2022 Poetry pick from 49th Shelf is driven by a sense of urgency to probe the ethics of […]
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