Friends of Book*hug, meet Spring 2021.
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Women in Translation: In Conversation with Aimee Wall
Our celebration of Women in Translation Month continues today with Aimee Wall, translator of several books, including Vickie Gendreau’s Testament and Drama Queens and Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard’s Sports and Pastimes.
Continue readingThe Mother of All Lists: 5 Books for Mother’s Day
O god save all the many gendered-mothers of my heart, & all the other mothers, who do not need god or savior, our hearts persist in excess of the justice they’re refused. —Dana Ward, “A Kentucky of Mothers” On Mother’s Day, we celebrate mothers, aunties, grandmothers, and more. We celebrate family, sisterhood and friendship. But […]
Continue readingWorld Health Day: Let’s Talk (and Read)
Every year, April 7th is known as World Health Day. It is a day of spreading global health awareness, started by the World Health Organization (WHO). It is important to spread the word and get involved in this campaign to keep everyone well-informed and to get help to those who need it. Every year the […]
Continue readingSpring poetry PREVIEW: Introducing Lesley Battler and her spectacular full-length debut, Endangered Hydrocarbons
Selected by BookThug’s poetry editor Phil Hall, Lesley Battler’s first full-length collection of poems Endangered Hydrocarbons developed out of the author’s experience as an employee of Shell Canada, a subsidiary of the multinational Shell Oil Ltd. and one of Canada’s largest integrated oil companies. It was while working at Shell that Battler found herself utterly bombarded by […]
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