Today’s Fall Poetry Preview features People You Know, Places You’ve Been by Hana Shafi! The latest poetry and artwork collection from Hana Shafi examines the everyday connections we make to the people and places we encounter. Despite the infinite variations of our lives, every urban dweller has sparred with a neighbour they disliked, seen beautiful […]
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Still looking for that perfect beach read? Maybe an alternative beach read is what you’re looking for! We’ve got you covered for the rest of this summer season. Big Shadow by Marta Balcewicz In an unnamed town in the summer of 1998, Judy is an isolated and inexperienced teenager on the cusp of adulthood struggling to […]
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Today, we’re sharing summer reading recommendations from some of our lovely authors. These are books that they’ve either already read and loved, or books that they’re planning to read (and hopefully love) this summer! Marta Balcewicz, author of Big Shadow Out of the Sugar Factory by Dorothee Elmiger, translated by Megan Ewing Brian by Jeremy Cooper […]
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Today, we’re sharing summer reading recommendations from our incredible team members. These are books that we’ve either already read and loved, or books that we’re planning to read (and hopefully love) this summer! Hazel Millar, Co-Publisher I am Homeless if This is not My Home by Lorrie Moore Sex and Rage by Eve Babitz August […]
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Today’s Fall Fiction Preview features Sadie X by Clara Dupuis-Morency, translated by Aimee Wall! Having followed the brilliant virologist Régnier from Montreal to Marseille many years ago, Sadie now works as a researcher in a lab, spending most of her time among microscopic creatures who teach her about life as a parasite. By day, she […]
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Today’s Fall Fiction Preview features Moez Surani’s The Legend of Baraffo! In Baraffo, a town gripped by revolutionary fervour, a boy named Mazzu grapples to understand the motivations of Babello, a man imprisoned for an act of arson. When Babello begins a hunger strike and another building is set ablaze, tensions mount among the citizens […]
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Today’s Fall 2023 Fiction Preview features Kathryn Mockler’s Anecdotes! With dreamlike stories and dark humour, Anecdotes is a hybrid collection in four parts examining the pressing realities of sexual violence, abuse, and environmental collapse. Absurdist flash fictions in “The Boy is Dead” depict characters such as a park that hates hippies, squirrels, and unhappy parents; a woman lamenting […]
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