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Bookshops
By Jorge Carrión
Translated by Peter Bush
Jorge Carrión collects bookshops: from Gotham Book Mart and the Strand Bookstore in New York City to City Lights Bookshop and Green Apple Books in San Francisco and all the bright spots in between (Prairie Lights, Tattered Cover, and countless others). In this thought-provoking, ... Read more
Dany Laferrire
Edited by Lee Skallerup Bissette
This collection of essays looks at the body of work of Quebec writer Dany Laferrire, including his notorious first novel, Comment faire l?mour avec un Ngre sans se fatiguer, through a variety of critical and analytic lenses. Issues such as identity, privilege, memory, exile ... Read more
Gaspereau Gloriatur
Edited by Michael deBeyer & Kate Kennedy
Volume two in Gaspereau Press’s tenth-anniversary celebration is an anthology of our very best prose. In the last decade, books of fiction, memoir, personal narrative, local and natural history, bibliophilic detective work, philosophy, lectures and essays have been launched ... Read more
How to Swallow a Pig
By Robert Priest
Bizarre sexual parables, hilarious science fiction, fables, text-tangles, dirty stories, lush love letters, re-visionary fairy tales, predictions,strange new games, dream transcripts, and a complete handbook of absurdist instructions, including one on the dangerous arts of ... Read more
Jack Layton: Art in Action
Edited by Penn Kemp
Jack Layton: Art in Action is a book of anecdotes and commentary about Jack Layton and his involvement with Canadian arts and cultures. He himself was a master of the art of politics. His canvas was Canada and his influence and inspiration ongoing: Never turn down an opportunity ... Read more
Queering the Way
Edited by Darrin Hagen
Edmonton’s Loud & Queer Cabaret has been blazing trails and shining a light on Queer arts and culture for twenty years. The showcase has debuted more than three hundred pieces of stunning performance and art from both established and emerging talent alike.
From the Loud & ... Read more
Random Illuminations
By Eleanor Wachtel
A great conversation can offer insight into the hearts and minds of its participants. In this intimate, wide-ranging collection of conversations (and some correspondence), writer-broadcaster Eleanor Wachtel and her friend, author Carol Shields, touch on both the personal and ... Read more
Rock, Paper, Fire
Edited by Marni Jackson & Tony Whittome
Introduction by Charlotte Gill
In the past few years, as writing about the outdoors has moved from a minority genre into the mainstream, climbers, adventurers, and environmental activists have gathered at the Banff Centre in the Canadian Rockies to explore their passions through writing. Now, their most inspired ... Read more
Where Seas and Fables Meet
By B.W. Powe
A book that is an open door, a current, an open window, a breeze over uncut grass, a dance of morning light on an old ruined sundial, a set of waves flowing up on a strange shore. This is a book that asks why do we give in to the psychotic and invasive Structure (and its many ... Read more
