Today we’re excited to be sharing ten works that inspired Kathryn Mockler in writing Anecdotes! These are ten works that I engaged with while writing my story collection Anecdotes. It is difficult to select just ten as there are many more, but these are some of the writers, musicians, filmmakers whose work I turned to […]
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Today, Kathryn Mockler is taking us behind “I Won’t Clean the Tub,” a story from Anecdotes! The second section of Anecdotes is a series of linked autofictional coming-of-age stories. When the #MeToo Movement went viral in 2017, some survivors of abuse and sexual assault were sharing lists about all the times they had been harassed, assaulted, […]
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Today we’re excited to be sharing nine works that inspired Paola Ferrante in writing Her Body Among Animals! Her Body Among Animals was born out of a mash-up of pop culture and literary influences. Horror and sci-fi movies and series, fairy tales and fabulist writing have all left their marks on this collection. I consider these […]
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Today, we’re so excited to be celebrating the release of The Legend of Baraffo by Moez Surani! Happy Book Birthday to The Legend of Baraffo by Moez Surani! We’re so thrilled to be welcoming this novel from Moez Surani, a beautiful fable that we can’t wait for readers to meet. Surani has four previously published collections of poetry, […]
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Today we’re back with another exciting new release: Anecdotes by Kathryn Mockler, a most mnticipated Fall release by the Toronto Star, Frieze, 49th Shelf, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. Happy Book Birthday to Anecdotes by Kathryn Mockler! Already the author of five books of poetry, Anecdotes marks Mockler’s long-awaited fiction debut. We’re thrilled for readers to meet […]
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Today we are so excited to be celebrating the publication of Her Body Among Animals by Paola Ferrante! Happy Book Birthday to Her Body Among Animals by Paola Ferrante. We’re elated to welcome this incredible collection from Paola Ferrante, a fiction debut that has already garnered impressive buzz and attention from Quill & Quire, The Globe […]
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Today we are so excited to be celebrating the publication of My Work by Olga Ravn, translated by Jennifer Russell and Sophia Hersi Smith! Happy Book Birthday to My Work by Olga Ravn, translated by Jennifer Russell and Sophia Hersi Smith! First published in Denmark, My Work won the Politiken Literature Prize. We’re thrilled to […]
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Today’s Fall Fiction Preview features As the Andes Disappeared by Caroline Dawson, translated by Anita Anand! Caroline is seven when her family flees Pinochet’s regime, leaving Chile for Montreal on Christmas Eve, 1986. She fears Santa won’t find them on the plane but wakes to find a new Barbie at her side, her mother preserving […]
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Today’s Fall Poetry Preview features She Who Lies Above by Beatriz Hausner! In She Who Lies Above, Beatriz Hausner brings Hypatia of Alexandria, the fourth-century Byzantine mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher, to life. She does so through layered ventriloquism: publishing amorous correspondence from the feminist icon’s friend and former student, Synesius of Cyrene, and scribing Hypatia’s replies in […]
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Happy Women in Translation Month! To celebrate all of the incredible translated works written and translated by women, we’re having a 25% off sale. The sale applies to all titles in our Literature in Translation Series (excluding all forthcoming Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 titles). We’ve also put together a list of some brilliant translated […]
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