In Review: The Week of February 26th

On the Blog

~ We like to keep a clean bookshelf at ALU, so we’ve rounded up some cleaning tips to keep your shelves looking sharp.~ Author Elizabeth Langridge discussed combining personal fact and researched fiction in her novel/memoirs Arise the Dead: The Great War and Arise the Dead: World War Two (Guernica Editions) in Writer’s Block.~ We learned more about Hogan’s Alley, a Vancouver community forced out of their homes, and the greater impact of gentrification in Chelene Knight’s essay Bring Me Back Home.~ True crime, zany parrots, sci-fi-prog-rock mashups, and more—our ALU staff spring picks are in!~ Author Adam Pottle discussed disability and satire as an intellectual weapon in his essay On Disability and Satire (or, How I Learned to Use My Circumventive Presence to Write a Circumventive Story).

Around the Web

~ Virginia Woolf was a scrapbooker, it turns out, and now you can snoop her albums. ~ The Saskatchewan Book Awards shortlists look mighty fine with books from Coteau Books, J. Gordon Shillingford/Scirocco, Signature Editions, Thistledown Press, and Quattro Books up for awards!~ Poetry doesn’t have to be intimidating with a how-to guide to reading poetry from BookRiot.

What Else We’re Reading

Tan read Lisa De Nikolits’ No Fury Like That (Inanna Publications) and found it “as funny as it is fierce.”