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).

How did Kamal Gupta beat the odds at blackjack tables in Vegas and keep his calm - and his assets - amid the fervent "dancing" that led to the 2008 financial collapse on Wall Street? It all comes down to a different definition of success, as he tells us in this expanded excerpt ... Read more

When she began writing Stella's Carpet (Now or Never Publishing), author Lucy E.M. Black started by recording remembered stories from her parents who had lived through the ravages of World War II. With this as her point of reference, she draws the immigrant experience through ... Read more

Michael Lithgow's second collection of poetry Who We Thought We Were As We Fell (Cormorant Books) drifts in the tension between a pleasing suburban life simply lived and unsettling moments that pull against it, intrusions of the surreal. Read on for more about the book and ... Read more

In her debut  A Number of Stunning Attacks (Invisible Publishing), Jessi MacEachern delivers a collection of poems about gendered existence and dream that contribute to the ongoing association of fragmented forms and women's writing. Evocative of the styles of Nicole Brossard ... Read more

Our penultimate ALU Season's Readings picks are for the ones on your gift list who would Hundo P be into these YA reads.

Marlene Cookshaw's first collection of poetry in over ten years is a bounty: Mowing (Brick Books) meditates on death and grief, community, and connection to land that invites readers into a harvest filled with images of high grasses and farm animals. Below we share two poems ... Read more

Trapped: A Mother's Quest to Reclaim Her Daughters (Guernica Editions) is author Alexandra Karb's harrowing but courageous personal memoir of her life over a 20 year period as she deals with the abduction of her children, taken to Jordan by their father. Victim to his abuse, ... Read more

With references as wide-ranging as Bollywood and an old edition of Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual, Guyanese-Canadian poet Faizal Deen uses his collection  The Greatest Films (Mawenzi House) to queer and decolonialize the cultural and historical touchpoints that make ... Read more

Garry Gottfriedson's Deaf Heaven (Ronsdale Press) is our third feature in our National Poetry Month series, Poets Resist. Published last year, his poetry collection explores postcolonial issues while also paying attention to First Nations internal problems with a fresh, ... Read more