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Ferocious Fearlessness: In Conversation with Catherine Lalonde and Oana Avasilichioaei, author and translator of The Faerie Devouring

The Faerie Devouring is a modern-day fable and feminist bildungsroman by Quebecois author Catherine Lalonde and reimagined by the award-winning poet and translator Oana Avasilichioaei. The Faerie Devouring tells the story of the sprite, her absent mother (who dies in childbirth), and a brood of fatherless boys all raised by Gramma, a stalwart matriarch and wicked faerie godmother. From

Queers, Processing: A Dialogue on Navigating Works in Progress

As writers, we are primed for the moment when a book comes out—the launch, reviews and physical object. I asked six Queer writers—Amy Fung, Leah Horlick, Zoe Whittall, Jen Currin, Hana Shafi and Gwen Benaway—about the messy process, pitfalls and discoveries of the years in between projects. Whether your writing process is one of incubation

Possibility of Transformation: In Conversation with Michael Nardone

The Ritualites is Michael Nardone’s book-length poem on the sonic topography of North America. Composed at sites all across the continent—from Far Rockaway to the Olympic Peninsula, Great Bear Lake to the Gulf of California—the book documents the poet’s listening amid our public exchanges, mediated ambiances, and itinerant intimacies. Author Charles Bernstein writes that, “Michael Nardone’s The Ritualites explores

A Nomadic Consciousness: In Conversation with D. Nandi Odhiambo

Nandi Odhiambo’s new book, Smells Like Stars, draws attention to what is hidden in plain sight, what cruelties life presents, and what struggles we face in our search for meaning. Journalist Kerstin Ostheim and freelance photographer P.J. Banner have been together six months after meeting on a dating website. As their wedding fast approaches, they question their

To Find Belonging: In Conversation with Hana Shafi

It Begins With The Body by Hana Shafi Cover Image

It Begins With The Body by Hana Shafi explores the milestones and hurdles of a brown girl coming into her own. Shafi’s poems display a raw and frank intimacy and address anxiety, unemployment, heartbreak, relationships, identity, and faith. Juno Award nominated musician and songwriter Alysha Brilla calls It Begins With The Body “the anthem of

The Excavation of Memory: In Conversation with Kim Trainor

Ledi, the newly released book by Vancouver poet Kim Trainor, describes the excavation of an Iron Age Pazyryk woman from her ice-bound grave in the steppes of Siberia. Along with the woman’s carefully preserved body, with its blue tattoos of leopards and griffins, grave goods were also discovered—rosehips and wild garlic, translucent vessels carved from

Textured Sonically: In Conversation with Mark Truscott

Careful attention reveals that, even in moments that seem insignificant, our minds are constantly navigating disjunctions among registers of experience. Our intellect silently reminds our eyes that the car that appears to be moving between leaves is actually behind them and much larger. The sound of the vacuum cleaner in the next room is noise

One Book That Altered My Writing: An Author Roundtable

At Book*hug, we love to celebrate not only the work of our wonderful authors, but also the long tradition of artists and writers that helped inspire many of the books we publish today. For this edition of our Author Roundtable, Book*hug reached out to a number of our writers and asked them to select one

Making the Self: In Conversation with Catherine Fatima

Catherine Fatima’s debut novel, Sludge Utopia, is an auto-fictional novel about sex, depression, family, shaky ethics, ideal forms of life, girlhood, and coaching oneself into adulthood under capitalism. Using her compulsive reading as a lens through which to bring coherence to her life, twenty-five-year-old Catherine engages in a series of sexual relationships, thinking that desire

On Mama’s Boy: In Conversation With David Goudreault and JC Sutcliffe

Mama's Boy by David Goudreault Translated by JC Sutclie

Mama’s Boy by David Goudreault, translated by JC Sutcliffe, is written with gritty humour in the form of a confession. It recounts the family drama of a young man who sets out in search of his mother after a childhood spent shuffling from one foster home to another. A bizarre character with a skewed view of

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Ferocious Fearlessness: In Conversation with Catherine Lalonde and Oana Avasilichioaei, author and translator of The Faerie Devouring

Queers, Processing: A Dialogue on Navigating Works in Progress

Possibility of Transformation: In Conversation with Michael Nardone

A Nomadic Consciousness: In Conversation with D. Nandi Odhiambo

To Find Belonging: In Conversation with Hana Shafi

The Excavation of Memory: In Conversation with Kim Trainor

Textured Sonically: In Conversation with Mark Truscott

One Book That Altered My Writing: An Author Roundtable

Making the Self: In Conversation with Catherine Fatima

On Mama’s Boy: In Conversation With David Goudreault and JC Sutcliffe

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