Author: ALU Editor
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Poetry in Motion: Lauren Turner
In her debut collection The Only Card in a Deck of Knives (Wolsak & Wynn) Lauren Turner considers societal impulses to reject sick women: these fierce poems told from the perspective of a twentysomething female speaker with a terminal disease juxtapose the violence of a gendered illness with the violence women and non-binary people experience. We…
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ALU Book Club: Intro to Seeds and Other Stories
All Lit Up’s Summer Book Club continues this month with another brand new read! Throughout August, we’re taking on Ursula Pflug’s otherworldly collection Seeds and Other Stories. To kick things off, we chatted with Inanna Publications Editor-in-Chief, Luciana Ricciutelli, for more about how the press helped bring the collection to life.
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Lost in the Fog: A baseball essay from The Utility of Boredom
Two weeks into this year’s late MLB season, some of us can appreciate—baseball is BACK! To celebrate we’re revisiting an old favourite, Andrew Forbes’s The Utility of Boredom (Invisible Publishing), a power-hitter collection of essays for inside baseball types and casual fans alike. Read on for the essay “Lost in the Fog,” about what happens when…
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In Review: The Week of July 27th
This week we bring you weekend plans with literary pairings to classic flicks. Read on for that and other bookish news on the blog and from around the web.
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Where in Canada: Angel Wing Splash Pattern + Fort Smith
Celebrated as one of Canada’s well-known and award-winning Indigenous authors, Richard Van Camp began his career with a collection of short stories—Angel Wing Splash Pattern (Kegedonce Press)—a playful, profound collection of stories that are very much grounded in the territory of Canada’s North, and especially that of the Tłįchϙ Dene people, that honestly and poignantly depicts contemporary Indigenous…
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Watch This, Read That: Classics Edition
In tough times, it can sometimes be the classics that calm our nerves and wrap us in a warm blanket of nostalgia. Today’s Watch This, Read That brings us a blast from the past with three films all set in yester-year paired with books that all offer refreshingly different perspectives.
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Beautiful Books: Dirty Birds
Author of the coming-of-age, rom-com, crime-farce thriller Dirty Birds (Breakwater Books) Morgan Murray sits down Facebook Messenger-style with designer (and wife) Kate Beaton to talk about how she turned his “hot pink Diefenbaker trash [cover attempt] to hot stuff Dirty Birds cover,” book cover design in the age of thumbnail, and dental plans and diapers.
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5 Books for Art Lovers
Any art lovers in the house? We’ve got you covered with five reads that explore everything from what it means to be an artist, how we assign value to art, the complex practice of curation and more!
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In Review: The Week of July 20th
This week we serve up big pool party energy, reading follow-ups, Scarborough, and much more!
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Writer’s Block: Endre Farkas
Author of Home Game (Signature Editions), the sequel to his highly praised novel Never, Again, Endre Farkas talks to us about being a genre fluid writer, the very real struggle between googling and writing, and his new book.
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Where in Canada: Misconduct of the Heart
Today’s Where in Canada takes us to Scarborough, Ontario—the setting for Cordelia Strube’s Misconduct of the Heart (ECW Press). With its stark mix of hills, ravines, greenery and…strip malls, Scarborough offers a contrasting sense of place for main character Stevie, who, in navigating a toxic 21st century and the day-to-day of her corporate-controlled restaurant job,…
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ALU Book Club: Follow-up Reads After Polar Vortex
For our final week of our July book club, we’ve rounded up four follow-up reads to Shani Mootoo’s Polar Vortex (Book*hug Press) that’ll keep the reading times rolling.
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Cover Collage: Pool Party
Suffering a bit of that summertime sadness? Turn those frowns upside down with this bluesy cover collage that we’re channeling big pool party energy with. Grab your favourite pair of sunnies and any one of these rad reads to brighten your day and ramp up your summer vibes.
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In Review: The Week of July 13th
This week we recommended books to beat the quarantine ennui, chatted with author Shani Mootoo for #ALUbookclub, read harder with a duo of books by authors of colour, and more!
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Read Harder Challenge 9 & 10
Throughout 2020, All Lit Up-er Tan Light is participating in BookRiot’s Read Harder Challenge—a reading task designed to expand readerly boundaries—and doing so with an indie twist. Each entry in this series will highlight one or two completed challenges along with a list of books from All Lit Up to have you reading harder, too! This month’s…