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ALU Summer Book Club: Eric Dupont
For week three of ALU Summer Book Club, we share some words from Eric Dupont about Quebec literature, along with excerpts from Life in the Court of Matane and a foreword by Heather O’Neill.
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Character Study: Letters to Johnny
Theaters across the country are re-opening and we’re revving up our own popcorn machines with excitement to bring you a brand new book-to-film adaptation of Wayne Ng’s Letter’s from Johnny with help from publisher Guernica Editions to run a casting call that delivers just the right mix of humour and drama.
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Where in Canada: Saltus
Tara Gereaux is the author of Saltus, a compassionate new novel from Nightwood Editions. Set in the early nineties in the prairie town of the same name, two waitresses spend their evening shifts serving food to the regulars of Harvest Gold Inn and Restaurant while confiding in each other about personal struggles with motherhood and…
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Indigenous Speculative Fiction: An Interview with Daniel Heath Justice
In June, Indigenous-led publisher Kegedonce Press celebrated the 15th anniversary of Daniel Heath Justice’s TheWay of Thorn and Thunder , an Indigenous fantasy series likened to the scale of Le Guin and Tolkien that follows an epic conflict between humans and the other-worldly Kyn. Today it takes its place amid a welcome groundswell of Indigenous speculative fiction, the first fantasy…
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Accessibility, Inclusion & the Theatre: An Interview with Paul David Power
Newfoundland-based theatre artist Paul David Power describes his play Crippled (Breakwater Books) best: “a love story where one of the people in that story happens to live with a disability.” From childhood conflicts to overwhelming adult loss and grief, from despair to hope, Crippled presents the commonality of our inner struggles with personal demons, framed against our exterior…
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ALU Summer Book Club: Life in the Court of Matane Discussion
Last week we introduced you to our July book club pick, Eric Dupont’s Life in the Court of Matane (Baraka Books/QC Fiction) and shared a short interview with translator Peter McCambirgde for a behind-the-scenes look at how the book came together. This week, we hopped on Zoom and got bookclubby about the novel: we agreed we all loved it. Read…
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Poetry in Motion: Essential Tremor
Barbara Nickel has written about bodies, in one form or another, for many years. In this, her third collection of poetry Essential Tremor (Caitlin Press), her past work coalesces into new and timely perspectives on body—the presence of a unifying and disruptive tremor that spread from the micro of the physical to the macro of our…
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Under the Cover: Honorarium
In Honorarium (Palimpsest Press), writer, poet, and publicist Nathaniel G. Moore compiles two decades worth of reading other people’s books and shares a sense of what working in CanLit is like: “that it’s low-paying, a struggle, tiring, rewarding and all I ever think about.” The book highlights the work of the community of creators that surround him, like Mark…
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Read This, Then That: Reflections on Diasporic Identity
If you enjoyed the feminine energy and the tantalizing tastes of tea and sugar that run through Natasha Ramoutar’s poetry collection Bittersweet (Mawenzi House), try Grace Lau’s The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak (Guernica Editions)—a debut with a similar mouthfeel that works to find its own recipes for home and belonging.
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ALU Summer Book Club: Intro to Life in the Court of Matane
ALU Summer Book Club is on! We virtually chatted with Peter McCambridge, translator and fiction editor at QC Fiction, an imprint of Baraka Books, about bringing to Eric Dupont’s novel Life in the Court of Matane to English readers. Read on for a preview from the book and our interview with Peter.
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Two Poems from The Pit
Tara Borin’s The Pit (Nightwood Editions) is a melancholic gallery of poems that contain perfect portraits of a small, sub-Arctic dive bar’s imperfect patrons and staff. Below we share two poems from the collection!
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ALU Summer Book Club: 2021 Edition
Book clubbing season is once again in full swing at ALU HQ. This sixth annual book club brings you a wildly imaginative, coming-of-age novel-as-memoir from Quebec author Eric Dupont, and a powerful, striking debut novel from Rahela Nayebzadah we’re sure to have lots of discussion around. If we’re being too elusive, read on to find out about…
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If You Liked X, Read Y: Historical Horror Edition
If you enjoyed Matt Ruff’s dark and wondrous Lovecraft Country, David Neil Lee’s The Medusa Deep (Wolsak and Wynn) is the electrifying follow-up for teens and YA readers alike.
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Poetry in Motion: Dallas Hunt + Creeland
In the glow of a phone, through sleepless evenings, Dallas Hunt worked on what would become his newest poetry collection Creeland (Nightwood Editions), an unwavering affirmation for his connection to home in Treaty Eight (northern Alberta) and the inherent inability of colonial language to be able to fully articulate the complexities of Indigenous lifeworlds.Discover more…
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Beautiful Books: Music from a Strange Planet
Barbara Black’s debut collection Music From a Strange Planet (Caitlin Press) is a genre-bending mix of provocative and philosophical stories that takes readers from the ravaged streets of dystopian cities to the inner battlefields of its characters. Mirroring the zest and energy of the book is Barbara’s own collage art and design work on the cover,…