Book*hug Recommends: Author Summer Reads

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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Book*hug Recommends: Staff Summer Reads

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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Fall 2023 Fiction Preview: Sadie X

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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Fall 2023 Fiction Preview: Anecdotes by Kathryn Mockler

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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