This next instalment of Book*hugs Wrapped features staff picks! Read on for a list of the books we’ve been reading, re-reading, loving, and recommending to anyone who will listen! Without further ado, an *incomplete* list of books we kept close in 2022: Hazel Millar, Co-publisher – Childhood by Tove Ditlevsen – A Man’s Place by Annie Ernaux […]
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Today’s book playlist is by Adebe DeRango-Adem, to pair with her new poetry collection, Vox Humana! Vox Humana (Latin for “human voice”) is 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 […]
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This month, we asked our 2022 authors that most prized question: what were your favourite reads of the year? We are now pleased to present Book*hugs Wrapped, The Authors’ Edition! Read on for a list of books that moved, excited, changed, engaged, amused, bemused, and ultimately dazzled Book*hug authors this year: Shannon Webb-Campbell, author of Lunar […]
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Today, we are delighted to be in conversation with River Halen, author of Dream Rooms. Part essay, part poem, part fever dream journal entry, Dream Rooms is a book about personal revolution, about unravelling a worldview to make space for different selves and realities. Deeply queer and trans not only in its content but in its […]
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