Many a thing has been written, spoken, and sung about love. This Valentine’s Day we join the chorus with a stellar recommended reading list! The following twelve works of prose and poetry honour true love in its many shades and forms, exploring various categories of affection from passionate affairs—which inflame, inspire, and sometimes implode; to […]
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New book deals! Book*hug Press has acquired new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry titles to be published in 2023 and 2024, by Jess Taylor, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, Anne Cathrine Bomann, Caroline Dawson, Lisa Robertson, Kate Cayley, Sandra Ridley, and Chantal Neveu & Erin Moure. FICTION Book*hug Press has acquired North American rights to Jess Taylor’s PLAY. […]
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May is Short Story Month! Please join us in celebrating this centuries-old yet endlessly versatile form.
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What is love? We have yet to agree on a global definition.
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Shorter days. Longer sleeves. Lower temperatures. The slow creep of winter is hard to ignore, especially this year, when at-home pastimes aren’t just enjoyable but essential.
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Our Short Story Month Celebration continues with Jess Taylor, whose critically-acclaimed debut collection, Pauls, we featured earlier this month. Today, we’re featuring Taylor’s sophomore collection, Just Pervs, which is currently a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards (Bisexual Fiction Category).
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Our Short Story Month Celebration begins with Jess Taylor, author of the critically acclaimed story collections, Pauls and Just Pervs. Today, we’re sharing an excerpt from Pauls, which in 2015 was named a National Post Best Book of the Year, a Kobo Best Canadian Book of the Year, an Amazon.ca Editors’ Best Book of the […]
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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 of 2015, a 49th Shelf Most Anticipated 2015 Fall Fiction Selection and was a Quill and Quire “Best of 2015” Cover Design Selection. Additionally, “Breakfast Curry,” […]
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Today, we’re shining the spotlight on BafterC Vol. 8 No 1, which was guest-edited by none other than Jess Taylor, author of the acclaimed debut story collection, Pauls. This NEW MOTION ISSUE of BafterC (with bold new design!) contains work by Spencer Gordon, Chad Campbell, Phoebe Wang, Dominique Bernier-Cormier, Mat Laporte, Jessie Jones, Jesse Eckerlin, JC Bouchard, […]
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Today is International Women’s Day 2016. Today we celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women everywhere. In honour of #IWD2016, we’ve created a recommended reading list of contemporary women writers at BookThug, both emerging and established, that you need to read now. These 12 fierce and brilliant women push at boundaries in […]
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