Our Short Story Month continues with two highly immersive, darkly humorous collections that exist in the eye of the storm: Anecdotes by Kathryn Mockler and The Lightning of Possible Storms by Jonathan Ball. In a style of writing that manages to be both surreal and prophetic, Mockler and Ball build worlds out of the darkest […]
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Today’s chapter of Book*hugs Recommend features Book*hug staff along with (some of!) our favourite reads of the year. These are books which stuck with us, made us feel, made us laugh, made us think; satisfied some of our curious, droll, earnest, comedic, speculative, scientific, wanderlusting, metaphysical, intertextual, melancholic, and optimistic—you name it—moods. Read on for […]
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There are only two days left until Halloween! Embrace the season with this handpicked selection of gory, haunted, uncanny, weird, and downright spooky reads. Ranging from horror to the horror-inspired, creepy to the creepy-adjacent, this list touches on a diverse array of subjects from disability, to the creative process, to sisterhood, to the pitfalls of […]
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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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We have a confession: we’re slightly fanatical about Halloween.
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In a world full of stories, there are some that stick to us like burrs, told and retold with trace edits for centuries.
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“The monster is the moral centre of the horror story because the monster represents the truth of the world.” —Jonathan Ball
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Today, we’re excited to unveil our forthcoming Fall 2020 season!
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Who is kevin mcpherson eckhoff, aka kme, aka KMac? Poet? Performer? Beloved trickster of the Canadian conceptual poetry scene? BFF of Jake Kennedy? He is most certainly the author of three books of poetry, including Rhapsodomancy (Coach House Books, 2010), Easy Peasy (Invisible Publishing, 2011) and Forge (Invisible Publishing, 2013). His chapbook, Game Show Reversed, […]
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In 1981 Jake Kennedy accidentally burnt down an abandoned house. Years later, as an adult, he read a story about how the German artist Kurt Schwitters’ “interior house-sculpture” (“Merz Structure No. 2”) was destroyed in 1951 after some children playing with matches accidentally burnt the building down. This sad ‘unmaking’ became the inspiration for Merz […]
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