Happy Halloween! This year we’re sharing a list of books that offer up nontraditional chills and thrills! We’re skipping the ghosts and ghouls and heading straight for the too-real scares of late capitalism, the horror of petty neighbourly disputes, and media spectacle. The following seven books play with the freaky and the foreboding. They explore […]
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Today, we are delighted to be in conversation with Kate Hargreaves, author of tend. A much anticipated follow-up to Leak, tend is a visceral and playful poetry collection which explores feelings of being distanced from loved ones, physically and emotionally; striving to be better (at chores, at intimacy); and tending to the things that fracture. […]
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Today, we are celebrating the release of Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene by Alessandra Naccarato! This urgent collection of essays takes on our relationship to the natural world in a time of accelerating climate change. Read on to learn more about the book and upcoming events and launches in Toronto, Vancouver, and online. Happy […]
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Today, we are featuring our interview with award-winning author Cary Fagan about his new novel, The Animals. A realist novel with the air of a fairy tale, The Animals is a surprising, funny, and thought-provoking story that explores the nature of relationships faunal and human, and reminds us of the challenges of finding one’s place in […]
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Next up in our official book playlist series, we welcome Kate Hargreaves’s tend! Visceral and playful, tend reflects the intimate awkwardness of modern life. It explores feelings of being distanced from loved ones, physically and emotionally; striving to be better (at chores, at intimacy); and tending to the things that fracture. Find Hargreaves’s tend playlist below, or […]
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Today, we are in conversation with Adebe DeRango-Adem, author of Vox Humana, a collection of poetry driven by a sense of political urgency to probe the ethics of agency in a world that actively resists the participation of some voices over others. In and through literary experiments with word and sound, utterance and song, Vox Humana considers the […]
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Today marks the official release of Dream Rooms by River Halen! Read on to learn all about this genre-bending addition to our Essais Series. Happy Book Birthday to Dream Rooms by River Halen! Part essay, part poem, part fever dream journal entry, Dream Rooms charts the shifting terrains of gender and genre. This Most Anticipated Poetry Pick from 49th Shelf unravels a worldview, […]
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Today, we are celebrating the release of tend by Kate Hargreaves! Read on to learn all about this witty collection of poems which finds beauty and solace in the ordinary. Happy Book Birthday to tend by Kate Hargreaves! A much-anticipated follow up to her poetry collection Leak, and a Fall 2022 Poetry Selection from CBC Books and 49th Shelf, tend explores the small pleasures and discomforts […]
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Today, we celebrate the release of award-winning author Cary Fagan’s new novel, The Animals! Read on to learn all about this playful and profound work of literary fiction and for information about the launch this Friday! Happy Book Birthday to The Animals by Cary Fagan! A Most Anticipated Fall 2022 Fiction pick from CBC Books […]
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This week in our official book playlist series, we welcome Chelene Knight’s Junie! 1930s, Hogan’s Alley—a thriving Black and immigrant community located in Vancouver’s East End. Junie is a creative, observant child who moves to the alley with her mother, Maddie: a jazz singer with a growing alcohol dependency. “Despite poverty and the unkindness of […]
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