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, […]
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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 […]
Continue readingA 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 […]
Continue readingTo Find Belonging: In Conversation with Hana Shafi
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 […]
Continue readingThe 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 […]
Continue readingTextured 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 […]
Continue readingOne 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 […]
Continue readingMaking 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 […]
Continue readingOn Mama’s Boy: In Conversation With David Goudreault and JC Sutcliffe
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 […]
Continue readingAdvice to My Younger Writer Self: An Author Roundtable
An author’s journey is a particularly twisty one. Amidst the drafts, re-writes, readings, and even seeded somewhere within that first fragment of an idea is the constant development of their […]
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