A National Poetry Month Reading List
This National Poetry Month, we encourage you to judge a book by its cover.
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One Book That Altered My Writing: An Author Roundtable
At Book*hug, we love to celebrate not only the work of our wonderful authors, but also the long tradition of artists and writers that helped inspire many of the books we publish today. For this edition of our Author Roundtable, Book*hug reached out to a number of our writers and asked them to select one […]
Continue readingNews and Events for the Week of March 21, 2016
News Check out The Plotline Bomber of Innisfree author Josh Massey’s recommended reading list, “Locally Sourced” for 49th Shelf. Congratulations Carellin Brooks! One Hundred Days of Rain is a finalist for the Publishing Triangle’s Edmund White Debut Fiction Award. The winners will be announced in NYC on April 21. Adèle Barclay reviews Double Teenage by […]
Continue readingInternational Women’s Day 2016: 12 Women You Need to Read Now
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 […]
Continue readingBookThug’s 2015 Year in Review
Here at BookThug HQ, we can’t believe it’s already December 30! Today, we’re looking back at our year in review and sneaking a peek at what lies ahead in 2016. While 2015 will soon be over, it won’t soon be forgotten, for what a year it has been. BOOKTHUG’S YEAR IN REVIEW New Website and […]
Continue readingBookThug’s Best Reads of 2015: The Editors’ Edition
In this edition of BookThug’s Best Reads, we turn things over to our editors and staff to reflect on their year in reading. Here are our favourite books we read in 2015, with contributions from Jay MillAR and Hazel Millar, Malcolm Sutton, Phil Hall, Ruth Zuchter, Emma Hunter, Shankari Mano, and even our resident Junior […]
Continue readingNo Work Finished Here: The World of Andy Warhol
BookThug is proud to present Liz Worth’s fourth book, a collection of poetry titled No Work Finished Here: Rewriting Andy Warhol. No Work Finished Here is a reworking of Andy Warhol’s a, A Novel, published in 1968 and based on interviews recorded in Warhol’s Factory over a two-year period. The “novel” is made up of unedited […]
Continue readingVideo Playlist: BookThug Fall 2015 Launch Party
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 […]
Continue readingA BookThug’s Guide to the Fall Literary Festival Season
The fall book season has arrived, and cities far and wide will soon be abuzz with literary festival fun. Starting this month, BookThugs will be popping up at book festivals and fairs across the country. Following, we’ve compiled this helpful guide to find your local literary event and the BookThugs who’ll be attending. A BOOKTHUG’S GUIDE TO THE FALL 2015 LITERARY […]
Continue readingFall Poetry PREVIEW: No Work Finished Here: Rewriting Andy Warhol by Liz Worth
When Andy Warhol’s a, A Novel was first published in 1968, The New York Times Book Review declared it “pornographic.” Yet more than four decades later, the book continues to be an essential documentation of Warhol’s seminal Factory scene. And though it offers a Pop Art snapshot of 1960s Manhattan that only Warhol could capture, it remains a […]
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