For this week’s edition of Feature Friday, we’re thrilled to bring you an excerpt from Document 1 by Québécois author (and underground superhero of French writing) François Blais, translated into English […]
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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 readingFeature Friday: Blood Fable by Oisín Curran
In this week’s edition of Feature Friday, we are very excited to bring you an excerpt from Oisín Curran’s award-winning novel, Blood Fable. Winner of the 2018 Thomas Raddall Atlantic […]
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 readingFeature Friday: The Nonnets by Aaron Giovannone
For this week’s edition of Feature Friday, we are pleased to bring you an excerpt from Aaron Giovannone’s latest collection: The Nonnets, a book-length sequence of “nonnets”—nine-line poems that Giovannone handles […]
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 readingFeature Friday: Dear Current Occupant by Chelene Knight
In this week’s edition of Feature Friday, we are thrilled to bring you an excerpt from Chelene Knight’s Dear Current Occupant, a creative nonfiction memoir about home and belonging set […]
Continue readingMeet Our Newest Intern: Mary Ann!
Hi, everyone! My name is Mary Ann, Book*hug’s new student intern. I’m so excited to get started, to get out of what has risked becoming a repetitive routine of researching […]
Continue readingFeature Friday: Precious Energy by Shannon Bramer
For this week’s edition of Feature Friday, we are pleased to bring you an excerpt from poet and playwright Shannon Bramer’s highly anticipated new poetry book, Precious Energy. In Bramer’s […]
Continue readingFeature Friday: False Friends by Stephen Cain
In this week’s edition of Feature Friday, we’re pleased to bring you an excerpt from False Friends, the first full-length poetry collection from Stephen Cain in more than ten years. […]
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