Author: ALU Editor
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On the Search for a Great Graphic Novel
Things we’re searching for lately: more snacks, more clothes that are the perfect blend of couch-comfy and Zoom-meeting appropriate, and enough good reads to get us through the rest of 2020. For anyone else seeking out the latter, we’re passing on recs for 3 graphic novels that are all about taking up a search for…
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ALU Summer Book Club: Interview with Shani Mootoo
Week three of ALU Summer Book Club has us in the lucky position to ask author Shani Mootoo all of our burning readerly questions about her irresistibly readable novel Polar Vortex (Book*hug Press). Read on for our interview with Shani about identity and intersections, art and influences, Priya and Alex, and more. Plus, hear Shani…
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Choose Your Quarantine Fighter: Mighty Books for Hard Times
Defeat your quarantine boredom with books — which will you take into battle? Choose your fighter below!
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In Review: The Week of July 6th
This week in news that isn’t about that open letter, we recommend books for food lovers this Culinary Arts Month, gab about our July #ALUbookclub pick, share new poetry from Kevin Spenst, marvel at some nerdy engineering, and more.
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5 Books About Food to Devour
We whipped up a list of five books about food that set the table this Culinary Arts Month.
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Poetry in Motion: Hearts Amok
Poet Kevin Spenst loves love. Hearts Amok: A Memoir in Verse (Anvil Press), the third in a trilogy that explores how our hearts are shaped, is proof of that. Below, Kevin shares a selection of readings from the collection, delivering an emotional intensity sure to blast out the quarantine cobwebs from around your own heart.
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ALU Summer Book Club: Polar Vortex Discussion
Last week we introduced you to our July book club pick Polar Vortex by Shani Mootoo with a little behind-the-scenes interview with publisher Book*hug Press on how the book came to be. This week we put on our best Zoom backgrounds and got chatty with each other about desire, queerness, identity, and some of our fave passages in Polar Vortex. Below…
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Read This, Then That: War and Immigration Through a Child’s Eyes
In this edition of Read This, Then That, we see war-torn worlds through the eyes of a child. Comparing Abu Bakr Al Rabeeah’s Homes and Endre Farkas’s Never, Again we bear witness to the shared stories of violence, danger and religious persecution as children from different countries make their own immigration journeys, seeking safety in…
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In Review: The Week of June 30th
This week we shared our summer reading picks, chatted with publisher Book*hug Press about our #ALUbookclub pick Polar Vortex, talked writing and rituals with Gary Barwin, and more!
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Writer’s Block: Gary Barwin
Author of the collection For It Is a Pleasure and A Surprise to Breathe (Wolsak and Wynn), award-winning poet Gary Barwin joins us to talk more about his own fluid definition of ritual, the wonders of language and the “hurly-burly” of life as it’s happening over any kind of perfection (if there is such a…
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ALU Summer Reads 2020: Staff Picks
From award-winners to page-turning stories about friendship to books about burlesque, All Lit Up staffers share book picks for our socially distanced summer reading.
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ALU Book Club: Intro to Polar Vortex
To kick off our annual summer book club, we virtually chatted with Book*hug Press, the team that brought us Shani Mootoo’s newest novel Polar Vortex.
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Writing on the road: An interview with travel writer Trevor Carolan
After a music reviewing gig at the age of seventeen led him to travel writing, author Trevor Carolan has been regaling readers about his extensive travels around the world. He’s since visited more than fifty countries and written several books of non-fiction, including three poetry collections. We had the pleasure of electronically chatting with Trevor…
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In Review: The Week of June 22nd
This week we played casting director, took on BookRiot’s Read Harder Challenge, chatted with Paul Butler about his new Dracula-inspired novel, offered up long reads for long summer days, and more!
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Long Reads to Fill Even Longer Summer Days
We can’t lie…we like BIG BOOKS! After all, what’s better than a hefty page-turner on a hot summer day turned long summer night spent reading until the wee hours of the morning? Check out some of these recommended reads that clock in around 400+ pages — all stories you’ll be happy to spend some extra time…