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ALU Summer Book Club: Monster Child Staff Discussion
Last week we introduced you to our August book club pick, Rahela Nayebzadah’s Monster Child and shared a short interview with publisher Wolsak and Wynn for a behind-the-scenes look at how the book came together. This week, we got our Zoom book club on to talk about all the ways in which we loved this book: it was haunting, immersive,…
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Poetry in Motion: Searching for Signal
Lori Cayer’s Searching for Signal (Signature Editions) witnesses her father’s search for epiphanies about life in the three seasons leading up to his death. Cayer discusses more about how the language and the silences within her collection map the minutia of her father’s personal journey—the circumstances of his dying and the aftermath of loss.
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17 Bookish Cats Recommend Their Favourite Reads
Yesterday, 21 litterate felines shared their favourite books with us. Today for International Cat Day, 17 more bookish cats throw their paws up for some great reads.
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21 Bookish Cats Recommend Their Favourite Reads
BEST OF THE BLOG 2021Because cats rule the internet, we asked for your favourite felines with their favourite books for International Cat Day on August 8. Stay tuned for more litterate cats + books tomorrow!
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Lit Locale: Broken Landscapes in Æther: An Out-of-Body Lyric
Catherine Graham’s book-length lyric essay Æther: An Out-of-Body Lyric (Wolsak and Wynn)—longlisted for the 2021 Toronto Book Award—is a luminous homage to family, to cancer, and to the strange windings of truth. Today, Graham tells us how her cancer diagnosis led to a connection to the ethereal that prompted her to write Æther and what broken landscapes…
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Cover Collage: Stars of Summer
If you’ve been slacking on the hottest in Canadian books, we’re here for you with this cover collage + list of some of our favourite award-winning and nominated titles and authors from across the country announced so far this year within the ALU cannon.
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ALU Summer Book Club: Intro to Monster Child
All Lit Up’s Summer Book Club continues this month with another brand new read: Rahela Nayebzadah’s Monster Child from Wolsak and Wynn/Buckrider Books sparked us from its very first pages. Today we talk to Paul Vermeersch, senior editor at Wolsak and Wynn, about publishing the book: “There’s a girl who cries tears of blood. There’s a…
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Writer’s Block: Linda K. Thompson
Following the release of her debut poetry collection Black Bears in the Carrot Field(Mother Tongue Publishing), Linda K. Thompson joins us on the blog for another edition of Writer’s Block. In this interview, Linda discusses the feeling of reading her own poetry aloud to an audience, how a good workout and a solid bit of…
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Under the Cover: Jude and Diana
We go Under the Cover with Roseway Publishing to discuss author Sharon Robart-Johnson’s latest novel Jude and Diana, based on the lives of historical figures from the 1800’s—including the character of Jude, a black slave girl murdered for stealing food for her and her starving sister. Robart-Johnson confronts the challenge of writing the voice of an…
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Top 10: International Day of Friendship Roundup
Unlikely companions, childhood besties, and kindred spirits come together across this top 10 of book recommendations celebrating International Day of Friendship.
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In House: Book Promotions at Guernica Editions
With a small, but exceptionally mighty staff, Guernica Editions publishes dozens of books every season for all kinds of book lovers—from fiction to poetry to literary and cultural essays the press is a treasure trove of books. Today, we meet two members of staff to talk book promotions and publicity: Dylan Curran, a sales and…
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ALU Summer Book Club: Follow-Up Reads After Life in the Court of Matane
For our final week of our July book club, we’ve rounded up four follow-up reads to Eric Dupont’s Life in the Court of Matane (Baraka Books/QC Fiction) that’ll ease you into a life post-Matane.
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Two Poems from Undoing Hours
Selina Boan’s debut poetry collection Undoing Hours (Nightwood Editions) explores growing up as a white settler-nehiyaw woman and the process of unlearning, (re) learning and imagining new, decolonialized ways to exist and understand the world now and for the future. Below, we share two poems from Selina’s collection.
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First Fiction Friday: WROL (Without Rule of Law)
Michaela Jeffery’s debut play, WROL: Without Rule of Law (Playwrights Canada Press) will resonate with any young woman who has ever been told she is “too much.” Part Judy Blume, part Rambo, this darkly comic coming-of-age tells the story of a group of preteen “doomers” as they prepare for survival in the post-collapse society they anticipate inheriting.
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Off/Kilter x Mixtape: Bleeding Light
Author Rob Benvie guest stars on the All Lit Up decks, spinning a double-album soundtrack of tunes to pair with a reading of his newest novel Bleeding Light (Invisible Publishing). Take this eclectic mix on your metaphysical hellride through this darkly funny novel that reveals the mystical fabrics of what connects us and helps us…