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Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Short Story Month: Alex Laidlaws’ Dead Flowers
Alex Laidlaw’s most recent collection of short stories Dead Flowers (Nightwood Editions) features characters that have fallen off of their life’s path, struggling with heartache, addiction and loneliness – aching with a nostalgia for what once was and an ambivalence for what is or what might be. Below, Alex chats with us about the collection,…
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Books for Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is coming up and because books are the wise choice for lit-loving moms, we’ve put together a few suggestions depending on what type of books the moms in your life love to read.
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Top 10: Books for Mental Health Week
During CMHA Mental Health Week, we #GetLoud about what mental health really is. From addiction to depression to body dysmorphia, our roundup of 10 books speak to the struggles that mental illness brings.
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In Review: The Week of April 29th
This week we willed some warm weather (spoiler: it didn’t work) with our Do-Lit-Yourself hanging planters, read some short fiction for Short Story Month, and said farewell to two CanLit treasures.
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Writer’s Block: Victoria Hetherington
Victoria Hetherington, author of Mooncalves (Now or Never Publishing) joins us this week for Writer’s Block, sharing more about her powerful first experience playing with a word processor, her sugary writing rituals and just how surprisingly long the process of writing and editing can be.
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Short Story Month: Andrew Forbes’ Lands and Forests
The stories in Andrew Forbes’ short story collection Lands and Forests (Invisible Publishing) might be described as haunting: stories that dig at the emotional core of women and men who mourn, who discover new passions, who face disappointment, who watch a wildfire consume an entire town. As author of The Sentimentalists Johanna Skibsrud puts it: “[…] Lands…
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Short Story Month: What’s Your Story? Quiz
Put those unfinished copies of War and Peace or Vanity Fair on the back-burner for a minute because the beginning of May means we’re celebrating Short Story Month! Die-hard book lovers know that a book doesn’t have to be long to be good. In fact, sometimes the best reads are ones that pick you up…
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Do-Lit-Yourself: Hanging Planters
We’re sure warmer weather is just about around the corner (right?). What more spring-appropriate way to spruce up your reading space than with plants? In this edition of Do-Lit-Yourself, we’re taking a page from one of the latest retro trends, Macrame, to pull together a cheap and cheerful hanging planter.
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In Review: The Week of April 22nd
If you’ve been following our National Poetry Month celebration you know we’ve been whooping it up with some of the raddest women of poetry all month long. Alas the party has ended but you can still check out our interviews with our featured poets and read their work. Scroll down for that and see what…
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Poetry Grrrowl: That Light Feeling Under Your Feet + Kayla Geitzler
That Light Feeling Under Your Feet (NeWest Press)is the personal account of author Kayla Geitzler’s time spent as a gift shop associate for three consecutive years on three separate cruise ships. Varied in it’s forms, the collection shape-shifts to reveal the peculiar, the intimate, and the struggle of living life at sea. From 104 hour work-weeks to…
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Poetry Grrrowl: Divided + Linda Frank
In our penultimate Poetry Grrrowl feature we chat with Linda Frank whose collection Divided (Wolsak and Wynn) considers our interaction with the natural world, our fears and fascination with it. Below Linda tells us more about her collection and how alphabetical reading brought her to Leonard Cohen.
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Poetry Grrrowl: An Unorthodox Guide to Wildlife + Katie Vautour
In this unconventional collection, An Unorthodox Guide to Wildlife (Breakwater Books), Katie Vautour explores the axis where human and animal life converge, revealing the state of our man-made world – ultimately, a reflection of ourselves. Check out our interview with Katie below where we chat more about the collection and how her work as a…
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Poetry Grrrowl: Wild Madder + Brenda Leifso
Our final week of #poetrygrrrowl starts fresh with Brenda Leifso’s newest Wild Madder (Brick Books), a stunning collection that depicts the sense of wildness in self discovery with poems that dig at motherhood, marriage, and love. Scroll down to read our interview with Brenda where she shares more about her collection (along with the poem…
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In Review: The Week of April 15th
This week we chatted with four more rad women of poetry for Poetry Grrrowl, got a history lesson in slang expressions, and picked up a book that’s part literary thriller and all intersectionality.
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Poetry Grrrowl: Children Shouldn’t Use Knives + Shirley Camia
Born out of struggle and an obsession with childhood comes Shirley Camia’s dark and deeply personal collection Children Shouldn’t Use Knives (At Bay Press). Shirley sits down with us in today’s Poetry Grrrowl feature to talk more about how the smallest of observed actions inspires her work and how strength can rise from the ashes of innocence lost.
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