Steven Zultanski’s latest book, Honestly, is the third title in a trilogy (and also his third publication with Book*hug) that explores the limits of individual expression. It begins with research […]
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Changing the Game: In Conversation with Chelene Knight
Chelene Knight’s new book, Dear Current Occupant, is a creative nonfiction memoir about home and belonging set in the 80s and 90s of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. In this critically-acclaimed book, […]
Continue readingStranger than Fiction: In Conversation with Jacob Wren
Jacob Wren’s latest book, Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART, is a compelling hybrid of history, memoir, and performance theory. It tells the story of the interdisciplinary performance […]
Continue readingFeverish: In Conversation with Mallory Tater
Vancouver poet Mallory Tater’s debut poetry collection, This Will Be Good, tells the story of a young woman’s burgeoning femininity as it brushes up against an emerging eating disorder. As […]
Continue readingThe Modern Self is a Reader Self: In Conversation with Bertrand Laverdure and Oana Avasilichioaei
Bertrand Laverdure’s novel, Readopolis, translated by Oana Avasilichioaei, playfully examines the idea that human beings are more connected by their reading abilities than by anything else. Originally published in French […]
Continue readingStaring Down the Blank Page: In Conversation with Jennifer LoveGrove
Beautiful Children With Pet Foxes is Giller Prize-longlisted author Jennifer LoveGrove’s third collection of poetry. It bears witness to moments of extreme crisis that take you on an odyssey through […]
Continue readingKicks Just Keep Getting Harder to Find: In Conversation with Stephen Cain
False Friends is the first full-length poetry collection from Stephen Cain in more than ten years. In it, he takes inspiration from the linguistic term “false friends”—two words from different […]
Continue readingLanguage would not exist without the body: In Conversation with Sandra Ridley
Sandra Ridley’s latest book, Silvija, is a sequence of five feverish elegies which combine narrative lyric and experimental verse styles to manifest dark themes related to love and loss: the […]
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 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 […]
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