One of the most interesting aspects of working as an intern at BookThug, is living and embodying the inspiring phrase “Literature of the Future.” Kristen and I are given complete creative freedom to push and develop our own ideas for the blog. One of the ideas we’ve come up with is a fun interview questionnaire […]
Continue reading“From literary to slam, formal to experimental, read, spoken, and performed, the Art Bar is open to all forms of poetry.” – Art Bar The Art Bar Poetry Series is Canada’s longest-running weekly poetry reading series. Since 1991, the Art Bar Poetry series has been showcasing both burgeoning and well-established poets from Canada and abroad. Although […]
Continue readingSaturday May 10 was the Grand Opening for Loft 112, a new creative and literary space in Calgary’s East Village. Loft 112 is a commercial space/loft apartment that will serve as locus for the arts and academic community, for writers of all ages, all aesthetics: “Loft 112 is a creative hive where ideas are given […]
Continue readingGreetings Faithful BookThugs — we are pleased to introduce to you Puneet Dutt and Kristen Smith who are interning with us from Ryerson University’s Literatures of Modernity program. As part of their work with BookThug they will be contributing to our blog on a regular basis with various goings on of the press. Enjoy! […]
Continue readingBookThug’s Fiction Editor Malcolm Sutton recently interviewed author Jacob Wren about his new novel Polyamorous Love Song, available imminently from BookThug. Read on to learn more about this unique philosophical novel about art and artists that is, of course, shot through with random acts of sex and violence. Malcolm Sutton: I’d like to situate Polyamorous Love […]
Continue readingPlease enjoy this excerpt from Chris Eaton that involves Pi, since it is March 14 — also known as Pi Day. We have estimated that this might be 3.14 percent of the novel, but we are probably wrong about this. We aren’t so great at maths. Enjoy! ChrisEaton-PiExcerpt If you would like all of Chris […]
Continue readingWhat follows is a conversion that Chus Pato and Erín Moure conducted by email in February 2014 about about their forthcoming BookThug title Secession/Insecession. Erín: If you could sum up Secession in a few words, what would you say? Chus: There was once a cut; this cut existed in a bygone time, and it cut life […]
Continue readingGuadalupe Muro is an Argentinian writer, producer and artist. Her first collection of poems, Con quién dormías? was published in 2007. Air Carnation is her first novel, and was actually written in English even though this is not her first language. As the story goes, Muro was travelling home from a visit to the United States, […]
Continue readingLaws of Rest was conceived as an elegy of sorts for my friend Jordan Berlant, who died of cancer in 2002, at the age of 31. Soon after his death, I began writing these poems. I moved to New York, in the mid-1990s, because my friend Michael suggested I could crash on the futon in […]
Continue readingDon’t forget: all existing BookThug titles, including the 2013 frontlist, are on sale for 30% off the cover price until January 2, 2014. Buy them here! Friday December 6 Toronto Poetry Slam | 8:00 p.m. sign-up at 7:30 | The Drake Underground, 1150 Queen Street West | A three-round slam competition open to anyone, featuring […]
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