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Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Gift Guide Week: Dina Del Bucchia
Featuring hand-picked selections by authors we admire for all the readers on your holiday gift list, our Gift Guide Week is as lit as it gets. Today, poet and short story writer (and maybe one of the funniest people out there), Dina Del Bucchia shares five choice titles for everyone from the friend who thought…
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This Week (+ Month!) in Lit Events: November 24-All of December
It’s the time of year when everyone pumps the brakes on literary events and we just have a few to share with you… but that doesn’t mean they’re any less great! Bundle up and head out to the last few events of 2017 โ This Week in Lit Events will be back in the New…
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Literary Awards Hangover: 2017 Edition
It’s hard to believe that we’ve had more hangovers than we’ve had birthdays, but here we are โ our fourth-annual Literary Awards Hangover. With an ice-pack to our noggins and aย strong cup of coffee, we scoured our shelves for the next book to chase the fiction nominees we grew to love this national literary awards…
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In Review: The Week of November 20th
This week we hair-of-the-dogged our Giller bash hangover with a new cocktail and poetry pairing, got into the age-old debate about how to best organize a bookshelf, and cheered for more award winners.
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Poetry in Motion: The Panic Room
Rebecca Pฤpucaru’s poetry has been described as “Fran Lebowitz meets T.S. Eliot,” by poet Jacob Scheier, and “supreme” by George Elliott Clarke. Poetย Branka Petrovic says of Pฤpucaru’s debut The Panic Room (Nightwood Editions): “This first collection sends shock waves on a scale all its own; it agitates the line as we know it. Pฤpucaru is…
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Beautiful Books: Squawk
Annie, the protagonist in Squawk (Playwrights Canada Press) is one we can really root for: she’s feisty, she’s strong-willed, and she’s soon aging out of foster care. We’re drawn into her story first through the ineffable cover imagery featuring Les grand vents byย Dominique Fortin, which author Megan Gail Coles distinctly chose for this play. She…
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Chappy Hour: A Jackson Pollock + Lasting Leaving Left
Among the poems of Robin Dyke’s collectionย Lasting Leaving Leftย (Promontory Press) that engage memory and purpose is “Mollusk Pollock” โ a poetic tribute to the famed painter. ALU’s resident mixologist Tan prepares a cocktail that echoes Pollock’s splatter paintings, that you can enjoy while leafing through an excerpt of this inviting debut collection.
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Writer’s Block: Martina Scholtens
In her memoir Your Heart Is the Size of Your Fist (Brindle & Glass Publishing) Dr. Martina Scholtens shares her experience as a doctor specializing in refugee medicine and stories of refugees navigating new lives in North America. Today we chat with Martina about the differences and similarities between doctoring and writing, influential writers, and…
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This Week in Lit Events: November 20-26th
There’s a lot going on this week, including the Holiday Pop-Up Book Fair in Montreal (which is a much better alternative to Black Friday shopping, IOHO).Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All Lit Up? Send the event details, including author, book, date, time, and address toย ย hello@alllitup.caย to be included…
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In Review: The Week of November 13th
This week, we (blue-)steeled ourselves for the Giller announcement, tried matching our library to Lisa Simpson’s, and made a whole lotta warming soup.
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First Fiction Fridays: A Matter of Will
Veteran actor, director, and playwright Rod Carley gives novel-writing a try, and succeeds with the hilariousย A Matter of Will (Latitude 46). The bookย follows main character Will Croswell through the ups and (many) downs of his life, culminating in divinity education in the middle of frozen Newfoundland nowhere, and is written with all of the excellent…
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Do-Lit-Yourself: Literary #notd Giller Edition, 2017
This is our THIRD time painting the Giller shortlist onto our digits (see 2015 and 2016 here) โ we can’t stop, won’t stop our excitement for this year’s deserving nominees. Of course, we’re most excited for Michelle Winter’sย I Am a Truckย (Invisible Publishing)…there may have been a bit of a tiff at ALU HQ on who…
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Character Study: What Is To Be Done?
You probably know Mavis Gallant โ the Montrealer-turned-Parisian expat โ from her unbelievably evocative short story collections…but did you know she was a playwright too? We teamed up with Linda Leith Publishing to cast her only playย What Is To Be Done?ย (and we already know it’s Oscar-worthy, because MERYL).
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Where in Canada: Travelling by Paintbrush through the Reserves in British Columbia
The latest instalment of Mother Tongue Publishing’s The Unheralded Artists of BC series isย The Life and Art of Arthur Pitts by Kerry Mason, a chronicle of his iconic watercolours painted all over British Columbia. While successful commercially as an illustrator and art teacher, Arthur Pitts’ passion is most clearly seen in his paintings of Indigenous…
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This Week in Lit Events: November 13-19th
Our literary events are truly coast-to-coast this week: we’re holding out for when airlines get season tickets.Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All Lit Up? Send the event details, including author, book, date, time, and address toย hello@alllitup.caย to be included in our listings.
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