Maggie Burton discusses with us how she wrote her first poem when she was in Grade One and then came back to writing again later in life to explore her complicated feelings about her family. Today, Burton shares ‘Radio Bingo’ from her collection Chores (Breakwater Books ... Read more

This week's roundup includes new poetry, a performance edition of Indie Reading Room, book design, the healing power of art, and more!

Alex Passey's novel Mirror's Edge (At Bay Press) is a philosophical trip through two polarized worlds — a hyper-capitalist, burgeoning transhumanist society and a community-minded, woodland paradise — and the fallout when those ways of living collide. Below, Alex tells ... Read more

We sit down with the effortlessly hilarious and impressively prolific Linda Rogers, whose latest,  Crow Jazz (Mother Tongue Publishing), is her 29th book but first short story collection. We talk about short stories as letters, never abandoning your work (even if it just ... Read more

Welcome to LOVE WEEK, a celebration of love in all of its forms. We're kicking off the week with a bittersweet excerpt from Jordan Tannahill and William Ellis'  The Videofag Book, which chronicles the four years of the then-couple's art space/party venue/home. We also talk ... Read more

After Bingemas, we're sure you've got books to wrap up for a lucky gift recipient somewhere: we have three ideas as to how you might do it in this do-lit-yourself.

Today's story-behind-a-story is Hallowe'en perfect: author Jon R. Flieger shares the inspiration behind the funeral services workers who staff his latest novel  You Are Among Monsters (Palimpsest Press). After many conversations with a mortician friend fresh to the profession, ... Read more

We chat with writer Theresa Kishkan about genre (it's better not to let it rule you), her latest book, Euclid's Orchard and Other Essays from Mother Tongue Press (it's surprisingly "math-y" but don't let that scare you), and her place on the northern part of the Sechelt ... Read more

It's the first day of summer for a lot of Canadian kids today, so we're turning to comics panels from Sophie Bedard's  Almost Summer (Pow Pow Press) for advice. With a total of four volumes –  #2 drops this August – these true-to-life yet still adorable graphic ... Read more

It's time for the second annual ALU Book Club! Launched last year, we featured one book a month in July and August and we got real gabby about them with staff discussions, author interviews, and chats with the publishers who brought them to us. And because we had a lot of ... Read more