Today marks the first release from our Spring 2023 season! Introducing Heating the Outdoors—an irreverent and transcendent new poetry collection by Ilnu Nation member Marie-Andrée Gill, translated from French by Kristen Renee Miller. Happy Book Birthday to Heating the Outdoors by Marie-Andrée Gill, translated by Kristen Renee Miller! We are overjoyed to be putting out a […]
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Spring 2023 Fiction Preview: Big Shadow by Marta Balcewicz
Today’s Spring 2023 Fiction Preview features Marta Balcewicz’s debut novel, Big Shadow! Set in an unnamed town in the summer of 1998, Big Shadow follows Judy, an isolated and inexperienced teenager on the cusp of adulthood struggling to craft an identity for herself—especially as the artist she wants to be. Her only friends are increasingly obsessed […]
Continue readingSpring 2023 Fiction Preview: Places Like These by Lauren Carter
Next up in our Spring 2023 Preview series is Lauren Carter’s Places Like These, a psychologically complex and astute short story collection which plumbs the vast range of human reactions to those things which make us human—love, grief, friendship, betrayal, and the intertwined yet contrasting longing for connection and independence. A grieving teenager confronts the unfairness […]
Continue readingPal-entines Day: A Friendship Reading List ????
“What is a friend?” Aristotle writes, but “a single soul dwelling in two bodies.” This Valentine’s Day, we are celebrating the true love of friendship, turning to books which meditate on this oft-skipped over but endlessly interesting form of affection. In honour of our pals, our comrades, our book clubs, and our besties, we present […]
Continue readingSpring 2023 Poetry Preview: Lent by Kate Cayley
This week’s Spring 2023 Season Preview spotlights Lent by award-winning writer Kate Cayley. In these peculiar times, we are thrust back into ourselves in a kind of suspension: one in which only private life exists yet threatens to become trivial through a sense of mutual, overarching dread. Lent is built from this tension, exploring domestic […]
Continue readingSpring 2023 Nonfiction Preview: Crying Wolf by Eden Boudreau
TW: references to sexual violence and self harm. Today’s Spring 2023 Preview, features an excerpt from Eden Boudreau’s powerful debut memoir, Crying Wolf. After a violent sexual assault, Eden Boudreau was faced with a choice: call the police and explain that a man who wasn’t her husband, who she had agreed to go on a […]
Continue readingSpring 2022 Poetry Preview: Heating the Outdoors by Marie-Andrée Gill, translated by Kristen Renee Miller
Today we are kicking off our Spring 2023 Previews with Heating the Outdoors by Marie-Andrée Gill, translated by Kristen Renee Miller! In these micropoems, writing and love are acts of decolonial resilience. Rooted in Nitassinan, the territory and ancestral home of the Ilnu Nation, they echo the Ilnu oral tradition in Gill’s interrogation and reclamation of […]
Continue readingSpring 2023 Season Reveal!
Happy New Year! Today, we are revealing our Spring 2023 lineup, featuring seven remarkable fiction, nonfiction, and poetry titles! Read on for all the details, including on sale dates and pre-order information, plus an announcement about FREE SHIPPING on website orders! Spring 2023 Fiction Places Like These by Lauren Carter Literary Fiction | […]
Continue readingBook*hugs Wrapped: Books We Loved This Year, the Staff Edition
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 […]
Continue readingVox Humana: The Playlist
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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