Introducing BookThug’s Fall 2015 Season!
As we approach the ides of August, thoughts turn to the Fall 2015 literary season. BookThug is proud to present a stellar lineup of adventurous new books, with fiction from Jess […]
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In Conversation: Jay Gamble discusses Book of Knots
From Canadian poet and academic Jay Gamble comes this special release from BookThug’s Boondoggle imprint: Book of Knots, a highly playful and deceptively musical book-length meditation on the poetics of nothingness. […]
Continue readingBookThug Spring 2015 Launch Party: The Ultimate Video Playlist
Clocking in at ten (count-’em, ten!) adventurous, innovative titles, Spring 2015 was BookThug’s biggest season ever. Authors came from far and wide for the Spring Launch Party in Toronto, and […]
Continue readingBook*hugs Recommend: Summer Reading, The Staff Edition
Book*hug’s crack team of publishing professionals share their summer reading recommendations. ❧ Jay MillAr Co-publisher My Body Is Yours by Michael V. Smith (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2015) From Arsenal Pulp […]
Continue readingBookThug presents: a special limited edition of two stories and an essay from Jacob Wren
In honour of the inaugural Authors For Indies Day on May 2, 2015, BookThug teamed up with Toronto bookstore Type Books to produce a limited edition publication of two stories and an essay […]
Continue readingBookThugs Recommend: Summer 2015 Reading Lists
Summer reading is a distinctly marked species in the great genus Reading: a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work. Surly study has its dignities and […]
Continue readingTHOU by Aisha Sasha John is a Finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry!
BookThug is very pleased to announce that Aisha Sasha John’s acclaimed 2014 collection THOU is a Finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, Ontario’s leading award for literature! Established in […]
Continue readingIn Conversation: Wanda Praamsma interviews Lesley Battler about her poetic debut, Endangered Hydrocarbons
Lesley Battler‘s debut collection Endangered Hydrocarbons channels the poet’s personal experience as an employee of Shell Oil into an ingenious suite of poems confronting the extent and the implications of oil production in Canada. As […]
Continue readingIn Conversation: Malcolm Sutton talks with Mike Steeves about his debut novel, Giving Up
Mike Steeves’ new novel Giving Up is an uproarious, unrelenting look inside a contemporary middle-class relationship. Taking place over the course of two or three hours on a deceptively inauspicious evening […]
Continue readingIn Conversation: Wanda Praamsma talks with Pearl Pirie about her new collection the pet radish, shrunken
The lyrics populating Ottawa poet Pearl Pirie‘s new collection, the pet radish, shrunken, buzz with oblique wisdom and surgically sharp wit. Cicadas chirp from beneath the troposphere; secret agent squirrels conspire among the […]
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