BookThug’s Fall 2015 launch party at The Garrison on April 13th brought together BookThugs from across the GTA and beyond to celebrate the launch and release of nine new innovative titles. With readings of poetry and fiction to an enthusiastic audience, the night was captured on film by our media guru, John Schmidt. ❧ Joining […]
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Calling all Pauls! Tonight we officially kick off #paulsmania with the launch of Jess Taylor’s debut story collection, Pauls, at the Steady Cafe in Toronto. We’re looking forward to a night of celebration with music, snacks, giveaways, readings and, of course, Pauls. Pauls by Jess Taylor is a collection of short stories about different people named […]
Continue readingDear blog readers: my name is Emma Hambly and I’m here this week to give a small recap of my time at BookThug. My master’s program at Ryerson allowed us to complete our degree with a placement at a creative company, and I was lucky enough to intern at BookThug. I spent an engrossing two […]
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This month BookThug is launching two chapbooks by poet Helen Guri. Of her poetry chapbook Here Come the Waterworks, Helen writes, “Here come the waterworks” is in most contexts an accusation that someone is about to cry profusely in order to manipulate people. But since anyone who is paying attention ought to be crying profusely […]
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Mike Steeves’ new novel Giving Up is an uproarious, unrelenting look inside a contemporary middle-class relationship. Taking place over the course of two or three hours on a deceptively inauspicious evening in a non-descript, unnamed city, the novel, Steeves’ first, has the rare immediacy of a play—only turned inside out. Much of the action here is internal, […]
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