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Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Where in Canada: A Glacial River Runs Through Lac/Athabasca
The multiple storylines and settings of Len Falkenstein’s acclaimed play Lac/Athabasca (Playwrights Canada Press) paint a picture of resource – especially oil – exploitation through the ages in Canada, and the effects it has on communities both resource-rich and job-poor. In this piece Len traces the path of the play and the Athabasca River, both –…
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Character Study: No Fury Like That
When Sales Manager and ALU Chappy Hour scribe Tan Light read Lisa de Nikolits’ latest novel, No Fury Like That (Inanna Publications), she was sure it’d be perfect for the silver screen. Tan’s kickstarted that process, providing a dream cast that fuelled a movie poster for this novel-turned-film about a group of women going through purgatory together.…
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In Review: The Week of March 19th
This week we spilled about our National Poetry Month celebration plans, rounded up a list of badass woman protagonists, and whooped about the 2018 Poetry Awards longlist.
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First Fiction Friday: The Third Person
What happens when you add a third person to a pair? Emily Anglin’s darkly funny collection of stories The Third Person (Book*hug) contemplates the dynamic shifts and complications from a triangle of three people. Described by Kate Cayley as a “master of evasion and inference, a connoisseur of every kind of secret,” Emily Anglin is…
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Top 10: Badass Women Protagonists
We’ve gathered a council of ten…ten amazing women characters, that is. They’ve got all kinds of strength, from carrying on after immigrating to a new place and facing discrimination, to tracking down an abuser, to grieving a lost child.
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Poetry Cure: National Poetry Month
Last year we raised our poetic fists for National Poetry Month with Poets Resist, a month-long celebration of poetry as a form of resistance. This year, we’re taking a deep breath and preserving our collective strength with Poetry Cure, a series dedicated to poetry as a mode of healing. Every day on All Lit Up,…
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Cover Collage: Ringin’ in Spring
Our spring-inspired book covers have us waving goodbye to a long winter and hello to more sunshine-filled days.
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Under the Cover: 150 Years Up North and More
150 Years Up North And More (Latitude 46 Publishing) collects creative non-fiction stories about the colonization and immigration in northern Ontario told by a variety of writers from Indigenous storytellers to new immigrants. Today Editor Laura Stradiotto tells us more about the making of the anthology, below.
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In Review: The Week of March 12th
This week we continued celebrating women authors and artists, learned about the making of audiobooks, and spooked ourselves out with talk of a haunted bookshop.
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First Fiction Friday: Chocolate Cherry Chai
Taslim Burkowicz’s debut novel Chocolate Cherry Chai (Roseway Publishing) follows a young Maya Mubeen as she leaves behind the pressures of her traditional Indian family to take on the world. A multi-generational story, the novel looks at the immigrant experience, motherhood, and love from the perspective of women of colour.
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Beautiful Books: Annie Pootoogook
Annie Pootoogook was a talented Canadian Inuk artist and glass-ceiling breaker: her Sobey Art Award win in 2006 contributed to the profile of Inuit art in the contemporary Canadian art world and established Annie internationally. Through her drawings, Annie portrayed her own life and the lives of those who lived in her community of Cape Dorset…
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The Sponge-Cake Model of Friendship
I have long been captivated by the relationship between Jane Austen and her sister Cassandra. In a letter which Austen begins writing on Wednesday, the 15th of June, 1808, and finishes writing on the Friday, she says, “My dear Cassandra / Where shall I begin? Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you…
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In House: In the Director’s Chair – Playwrights Canada Press Makes An Audiobook
It probably surprises few that audiobooks have seen a huge surge in popularity and availability in recent years, thanks to the proliferation of listening technology (that’d be your smartphones, folks) as well as a huge demand for audio content (audiobooks, yes, and podcasts, too!). But what goes into making an audiobook? Annie Gibson, the publisher…
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Under the Cover: The Tourist’s Guide to Zolitude: the Tour Guide
Writer and author of debut short story collection Zolitude (Biblioasis) Paige Cooper matches her 14 stories of saccharine-free love and yearning with “the Top Fourteen Places to View Pain.”
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In Review: The Week of March 5th
This week we celebrated International Women’s Day, watched Canadian Heritage Minutes come back in a majorly literary way, sipped on mocktails inspired by Massey Hall, and picked up an old classic to read.
Got any book recommendations?