In this week’s edition of Feature Friday, we are excited to bring you an excerpt from Jacob Wren’s Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART, a compelling hybrid of […]
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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 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: 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 […]
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All of us at BookThug HQ are excited to share our superb Spring 2016 season with you. Between February and May, 10 new books will be coming your way, featuring […]
Continue readingBookThugs Recommend: Summer 2015 Reading Lists
Summer reading is a distinctly marked species in the great genus Reading: a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work. Surly study has its dignities and […]
Continue readingSpring poetry PREVIEW: kevin mcpherson eckhoff’s Their Biography: an organism of relationships
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 […]
Continue readingSpring poetry PREVIEW: three poems from Jake Kennedy’s forthcoming collection Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play
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 […]
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