Carellin Brooks’s acclaimed new novel One Hundred Days of Rain chronicles an unnamed narrator’s struggle to rebuild her life in the aftermath of a violent breakup. Set in the profoundly rainy city […]
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A BookThug’s Guide to BookThug’s Spring 2015 Book Launch & Party AT THE GARRISON
The Big Day is almost here! BookThug is about to launch it’s 2015 Spring Season! Come by the Garrison (1197 Dundas St. West, Toronto) this Thursday evening to watch a brilliant band of […]
Continue readingSpring PREVIEW: Suzanne Leblanc’s The Thought House of Philippa, Translated by Oana Avasilichioaei & Ingrid Pam Dick
Multidisciplinary artist Suzanne Leblanc’s work occupies the space where philosophy and contemporary art converge. For several decades, her research, writings and visual art exhibitions have focused on the interconnectedness between […]
Continue readingSpring fiction PREVIEW: Giving Up, the debut novel by Mike Steeves
“Infinite resignation is the last stage before faith, so anyone who has not made this movement does not have faith, for only in infinite resignation does an individual become conscious of his […]
Continue readingSpring drama PREVIEW: Little Death, a new play by award-winning playwright Daniel Karasik
Introducing the newest member of the BookThug family: award-winning playwright and author Daniel Karasik! BookThug is thrilled to publish his new play, Little Death, just in time to coincide with its World Premiere […]
Continue readingSpring poetry PREVIEW: kevin mcpherson eckhoff’s Their Biography: an organism of relationships
Who is kevin mcpherson eckhoff, aka kme, aka KMac? Poet? Performer? Beloved trickster of the Canadian conceptual poetry scene? BFF of Jake Kennedy? He is most certainly the author of […]
Continue readingSTEVE McCAFFERY’s ALICE IN PLUNDERLAND – APPENDIX I: A GLOSSARY OF TERMS
In anticipation of this week’s dual launches of Steve McCaffery’s new book, Alice in Plunderland, illustrated by Clelia Scala (NOW AVAILABLE), BookThug is proud to present a special appendix to this spectacular new take on the Lewis Carroll […]
Continue readingSpring poetry PREVIEW: three poems from Jake Kennedy’s forthcoming collection Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play
In 1981 Jake Kennedy accidentally burnt down an abandoned house. Years later, as an adult, he read a story about how the German artist Kurt Schwitters’ “interior house-sculpture” (“Merz Structure […]
Continue readingSpring poetry PREVIEW: a Q&A with Jimmy McInnes, author of A More Perfect [
On March 18, 2008, at the height of his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Barack Obama delivered his famous “A More Perfect Union” speech at the National Constitution […]
Continue readingSpring poetry PREVIEW: Introducing Lesley Battler and her spectacular full-length debut, Endangered Hydrocarbons
Selected by BookThug’s poetry editor Phil Hall, Lesley Battler’s first full-length collection of poems Endangered Hydrocarbons developed out of the author’s experience as an employee of Shell Canada, a subsidiary […]
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