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  • ALU Summer Book Club: Intro to After Realism

    ALU Summer Book Club: Intro to After Realism

    The Summer of Andrés continues with our August #ALUbookclub pick, After Realism, a short fiction anthology edited by André Forget and published by Véhicule Press. To kick off the month, we share André Forget’s introduction to the book and interview Véhicule Press Carmine Starnino on how After Realism came to be.

  • Must Read: Seven Book-to-Movie Adaptions

    Must Read: Seven Book-to-Movie Adaptions

    Discover our ALU Guide of book-turned-movie adaptations! Why not read these titles before watching them online! Read on to see where you can stream these wonderful book adaptations.  

  • First Fiction Friday: LOTE

    First Fiction Friday: LOTE

    While the end of summer draws ever nearer, our summer reading list does not. You’ll dive into Shola Van Reinhold’s debut novel, LOTE (Metonymy Press), this summer, and it’ll stay on your mind through the rest of the seasons. Through extensive research on an overlooked Black modernist poet, the narrator creates a queer historical scene…

  • Poetry in Motion: Rhona McAdam + Larder

    Poetry in Motion: Rhona McAdam + Larder

    Award-winning poet and trained nutritionist Rhona McAdam shares her delicious new collection of poetry, Larder (Caitlin Press), in this edition of Poetry in Motion. Learn how the collection both celebrates the gifts of the natural world and mourns their increasing challenges, and hear her read the poem “Wild”.

  • ALU Summer Book Club: Follow-up Reads After Ring

    ALU Summer Book Club: Follow-up Reads After Ring

    With the ALU summer book club, it’s never truly goodbye – especially when we have great reads on deck acting as fitting follow-ups to our summer picks. For July’s pick Ring by André Alexis (Coach House Books), we look at a handful of novels and a poetry collection to pick up on some of the themes of…

  • Writers’ Block: Dawn Promislow

    Writers’ Block: Dawn Promislow

    Uncover the writer behind the novel Wan  (Freehand Books) – Dawn Promislow. In this month’s edition of Writers’ Block, Promislow shares how she realized writing fiction is a way for a writer to put distance between themselves and their material, how she is drawn to novels and short stories that are translated from another language, and her…

  • Must Read Books: 15 Historical Fiction Novels

    Must Read Books: 15 Historical Fiction Novels

    After watching the latest movie adaption of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, we wondered what other historical fiction novels we could dive into this summer. See our roundup below. 

  • First Fiction Friday: Fearnoch

    First Fiction Friday: Fearnoch

    Fans of Letterkenny and A Child’s Christmas in Wales will enjoy Jim McEwen’s new novel Fearnoch (Breakwater Books). Fearnoch is a plea for its characters to remember humility, honesty, and to see themselves in their neighbour, before it’s all gone.  

  • A Book Lover’s Guide To Calgary

    A Book Lover’s Guide To Calgary

    Last month I took a trip to Calgary, and took a literary tour! Read on below to hear all about my literary scoop! 

  • ALU Summer Book Club: Ring Staff Discussion

    ALU Summer Book Club: Ring Staff Discussion

    It’s our favourite time of the year: the ALU team broke out the snacks and sat down to discuss André Alexis’s Ring (Coach House Books), our July book club pick. Plus, download our discussion guide for your own book club!

  • Off/Kilter: Weird Lit Road Trip

    Off/Kilter: Weird Lit Road Trip

    Pack a cooler and rev up your Google Maps. Let these quirky, literary itineraries inspire you to get out and about this summer.

  • Quoted: Remnants

    Quoted: Remnants

    Remnants (Book*hug Press) is an exploration of our relationships with family and perception, told through a profound investigation of a father’s life and sudden death. In her newest book Huyghebaert asks: How do you decide what is the beginning and what is the end?

  • First Fiction Friday: Catch and Release

    First Fiction Friday: Catch and Release

    In this week’s edition of First Fiction Friday, discover Liana Cusmano’s debut novel Catch and Release (Guernica Editions) – a queer coming of age story in where the past and present intertwine with the protagonist’s own warped perceptions.

  • Under the Cover: At Last Count

    Under the Cover: At Last Count

    Veteran screenwriter Claire Ross Dunn shares how the real-life story of growing up with OCD became the backbone of her debut novel, At Last Count (Invisible Publishing).

  • ALU Summer Book Club: Interview with André Alexis

    ALU Summer Book Club: Interview with André Alexis

    We talked to André Alexis, author of July book club pick Ring (Coach House Books), about the constraints inherent to writing romance, the intensity of writing home when away, and the “potentially endless” influences in Ring and the quincunx as a whole. Read our interview below.