BookThug is welcoming some new interns this month: Kelly Duval and Stacey Seymour! We (Kelly and Stacey) are MA students at Ryerson’s Literatures of Modernity (MA) program, and we’ll be […]
Continue readingNews and Events from BookThug HQ: Week of May 2, 2016
Happy Book Birthday to Her Paraphernalia: On Motherlines, Sex/Blood/Loss & Selfies by Margaret Christakos! It’s available now and just in time for Mother’s Day! Heather Birrell reviews Job Shadowing by Malcolm Sutton […]
Continue readingNews and Events for the Week of March 21, 2016
News Check out The Plotline Bomber of Innisfree author Josh Massey’s recommended reading list, “Locally Sourced” for 49th Shelf. Congratulations Carellin Brooks! One Hundred Days of Rain is a finalist […]
Continue readingSpring Fiction PREVIEW: Job Shadowing by Malcolm Sutton
Bookthug’s Spring Fiction Preview continues with Malcolm Sutton, a Toronto-based artist, writer and Bookthug’s very own fiction editor, and his debut novel Job Shadowing. A 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring […]
Continue readingSpring Poetry PREVIEW: My Dinosaur by François Turcot, Translated by Erín Moure
Photo Credit: William Benito Moure In 2013, François Turcot invited readers along on an archaeological journey in search for the remnants of his father. The mode of transportation: Mon Dinosaure, […]
Continue readingInternational Women’s Day 2016: 12 Women You Need to Read Now
Today is International Women’s Day 2016. Today we celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women everywhere. In honour of #IWD2016, we’ve created a recommended reading list of […]
Continue readingTalking Conjugation: Phil Hall on his latest book, Conjugation
In Part 2 of our preview of Phil Hall’s latest book, Conjugation, we’re pleased to present an exclusive essay by Phil Hall. Enjoy! Talking Conjugation by Phil Hall . Otty […]
Continue readingSpring Poetry PREVIEW: Conjugation by Phil Hall
Five kilometers southeast of Perth, ON, on the secluded shores of Otty Lake, poet Phil Hall sits on his porch in the predawn dark, notebook in hand, and observes the […]
Continue readingSpring Fiction PREVIEW: The Jokes by Stephen Thomas
Question: How can we capture the complex drama of human existence — its triumphs and defeats, its crossroads, vicissitudes of the heart, major and minor setbacks, all the good, the […]
Continue readingSpring Poetry PREVIEW: The Mysterious Life of Gerard Legro
Photo: Studies Building, Black Mountain College. Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Collection, Special Collections, D.H. Ramsey Library, University of North Carolina Asheville. Photo Credit: Harriet Sohmers Zwerling. BookThug’s Department of Reissue […]
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