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  • School is in Session: Eight Reads for Back to School

    School is in Session: Eight Reads for Back to School

    Get out your knapsacks, it’s the first day of school. We rounded up two books from each stage of a student’s life to salute kiddos heading back to class all over and at every age – elementary, middle school, high school, and university.

  • Fall 2022: ALU Staff Picks

    Fall 2022: ALU Staff Picks

    We don’t care that it’s still hot enough to wear shorts; we’re getting ready for fall with some exciting reads on our release radar. Check out what books our staffers will be reading as the leaves start to change and things get cozy.

  • Top 10: Memoir Picks

    Top 10: Memoir Picks

    Did you know August 31 is We Love Memoirs Day? We help you hop-to loving memoirs with these 10 new and upcoming memoir picks.

  • Ten Graphic Novels for Fan Expo

    Ten Graphic Novels for Fan Expo

    Fan Expo Canada is upon us! It doesn’t matter if you like horror or sci-fi, memoir or mystery; there is a graphic novel out there for you. From fictional slice of life to historical non-fiction, we have a list of ten graphic novels to choose from just in time for the start of the comic-lovers…

  • ALU Summer Book Club: Follow-up Reads for After Realism

    ALU Summer Book Club: Follow-up Reads for After Realism

    Our team has sure loved reading and discussing the 24 exceptional short stories in the anthology After Realism, edited by André Forget and published by Véhicule Press. But what’s after After Realism? We keep the anthology train running and recommend four great ones for your TBR.

  • A Crash Course in Canadian Genre

    A Crash Course in Canadian Genre

    School’s almost back in session, and even if you’ve left your studying days behind you, it can never hurt to get back to the books – genre books, that is. Our Tan Light teaches this crash course on genre using recommendations from across the ALU-niverse.

  • All the World’s a Stage: Theatre Roundup

    All the World’s a Stage: Theatre Roundup

    The theatre is CALLING! With many theatre and musical performances happening across the country, we rounded up a list of plays for your reading pleasure. 

  • All the World’s a Stage: Theatre Roundup

    The theatre is CALLING! With many theatre and musical performances happening across the country, we rounded up a list of plays by amazing playwrights across Canada.

  • ALU Summer Book Club: After Realism Staff Discussion

    ALU Summer Book Club: After Realism Staff Discussion

    The ALU team met via Zoom to gush over the varied stories in our August book club pick – the anthology After Realism (Véhicule Press) – and, spoiler alert, suggest that it might be the most ALU book club pick of all time (?!). Read on to catch some of the highlights of our discussion, and…

  • Announcing the Launch of the eBooks for Everyone Collection

    Announcing the Launch of the eBooks for Everyone Collection

    Today is the official launch day of an exciting new initiative: the eBooks for Everyone collection. Over 600 (!) Canadian-published ebooks have been converted to accessible formats for print-disabled readers. Below, we tell you more about why we’re so amped.

  • ALU Summer Book Club: After Realism Staff Discussion

  • Off/Kilter: Interview with Poet Neal Shannacappo

    Off/Kilter: Interview with Poet Neal Shannacappo

    Writers featured on Off/Kilter have many talents, but we’re especially lucky to show off a few at once of the multi-talented illustrator, graphic novelist, and poet Neal Shannacappo. In our interview, Neal walks us through heartbreak, healing, and fantasy elements that inspired his recent collection of poetry Through the Eyes of Asunder (Kegedonce Press) – and shares…

  • Lit Locale: Field Notes on Listening

    Lit Locale: Field Notes on Listening

    Luellen Lake, a remote yet accessible lake in Banff National Park, is a grand setting to enjoy Kit Dobson’s Field Notes on Listening (Wolsak & Wynn). This book of poetic, personal non-fiction essays is concerned with what it means to listen to environments in an extended manner. So, get your bug net on, brew up…

  • ALU Summer Book Club: Interview with André Forget

    ALU Summer Book Club: Interview with André Forget

    Twenty-four staggeringly talented authors contributed to our August #ALUbookclub pick, After Realism (Véhicule Press). We talk with anthology editor André Forget about making a cohesive collection out of two-dozen unique voices, and why a good revisiting of realist writing is sorely needed.

  • First Fiction Friday: Egg Island

    First Fiction Friday: Egg Island

    In this week’s edition of First Fiction Friday, editor Russell Smith from Dundurn Press shares why less really is more in Sara Flemington’s new novel Egg Island, via her unique and clever minimalist approach.