BookThugs Recommend: Holiday Reading
Looking for the perfect book for that bibliophile on your holiday shopping list? Perhaps you’re actually searching for your next great read? With the winter holidays upon us there’s no […]
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BookThugs Read: Our Fave Books of 2016, The Editors’ Edition
2016 has been a rough ride. In fact, for many of us it’s been downright awful. But we won’t revisit the reasons why (after all, we already know why….). In […]
Continue readingSustained Momentum and Dream Logic: An Interview with Devon Code
In Involuntary Bliss, the first novel by Journey Prize winner Devon Code, a bond between three friends forms over a mutual fascination with an obscure Peruvian novella and is fractured […]
Continue reading‘Being alive is hella complex and I want art that reflects that!’: In Conversation with Mat Laporte
RATS NEST, the long-awaited debut book by Mat Laporte is a mysterious and sometimes hallucinogenic sci-fi short story collection that builds a narrative out of the complexity and dialectical uncertainty […]
Continue readingIn Conversation: Stephen Thomas Discusses The Jokes
Stephen Thomas’s debut book, The Jokes, is a collection of flash fiction stories full of surprises, humour and sincerity. Compared to Lydia Davis’s writing, The Jokes was shortlisted for the Metatron Prize for Rising […]
Continue readingBook*hugs Recommend: Summer 2016 Reads , The Staff Edition
At Book*hug Press HQ, we spend much of our days reading, and thinking and talking about, books. But this isn’t enough for us. We always have several books on the […]
Continue readingBookThugs Recommend: Summer 2016 Reads, The Authors’ Edition
BookThug authors are always busy. Whether they’re promoting their latest book, performing at readings, giving interviews, writing new material, or managing the rest of their lives, they are always on […]
Continue readingPearl Pirie’s the pet radish, shrunken is a finalist for the 2016 Archibald Lampman Award!
Congratulations to Pearl Pirie! Arc Poetry Magazine have announced the 2015 Archibald Lampman Award finalists and we’re thrilled that Pearl is shortlisted for her 3rd full collection, the pet radish, […]
Continue readingIn Conversation: Jess Taylor and Malcolm Sutton
Jess Taylor’s critically acclaimed debut story collection, Pauls, was named an Amazon.ca Editors’ Best Book of 2015, a National Post “NP99” Best Book of 2015, a Kobo Best Canadian Book […]
Continue readingBookThug Road Trip: Canadian Authors from Coast to Coast, Part 2
We’re revving up the engine again today as we continue on the second half of our Summer Reading Recommendation Road Trip. Today, we head out from Ontario, and then travel […]
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