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In Review: The Week of December 4th
This week we brought the Bingemas cheer with pop-culture-inspired reads for all the giftees on your holiday list, fell in love with Max the cat, and cheered for the RBC Taylor Prize longlist nominees.
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Bingemas: For the Podcast Professor
We’re in the age of podcasts: whatever your interest, there’s at least one person making episodes about it. Canada is especially known for its cutting-edge investigative and cultural podcasts, and for fans of Canadaland and/or Colour Code, we’ve picked two books that’ll be a great analog alternative to when your audiophile giftee’s phone battery dies.
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Bingemas: For the Existentialist
For the great contemplaters of life who ground themselves with TV shows like The Good Place and who probably have all seasons of Six Feet Under on DVD, our Bingemas selections will be the kind of escape they’re dying for.
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Bingemas: For the Outcast Sympathizer
For the bleeding heart on your list with a quirky twist, today’s Bingemas haul is all about the outcasts and the people who love them – specifically, fans of the cult-hit vampire mockumentary film What We Do in the Shadows and the newly-released movie Wonder (based on the book by R.J. Palacio). You’ll find their perfect book gifts…
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Bingemas: For the Board Game Geek
BINGEMAS began this week with giftable books for those whose Holy Grail includes the Netflix original series, and continues with books for the board gamers who plan whole nights around dice rolls. For anyone who can’t get enough Pandemic or Labyrinth, these recommendations are sure to please.
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Bingemas: For the Netflix-Original Connoisseur
It’s the inaugural day of BINGEMAS – a roll-call of giftable books for those folks who binge: on video games, on podcasts, and, on perhaps the most bingeable of all: Netflix original series. If your giftee has expressed an undying obsession with either Stranger Things or Friends from College, read on.
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In Review: The Week of November 27th
This week we brought you book picks from some of the coolest authors around to help you find the best book gifts, spilled the holiday beans about Bingemas, and upped our book-safety knowledge.
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Bingemas: Unputdownable Books for Everyone
It’s Bingemas at ALU, a time when pop culture and literature unite. It’s the season of power-reading between Hanukkah and Kwanzaa celebrations, gifting the perfect lit for all the pop-culture enthusiasts on your Christmas list, and being the lovable smarty-pants who can confidently recommend the book equivalent of every TV show out there (because sometimes people…
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Gift Guide Week: Canisia Lubrin
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, poetry powerhouse Canisia Lubrin gets lit-picky with three book picks for best friends, brothers, and nieces.
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Gift Guide Week: Matthew Heiti
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’s book recommendations come from super-cool (and not just because he makes his home in the frosty land of Sudbury) playwright and author Matthew Heiti who shares five picks…
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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 – 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 – our fourth-annual Literary Awards Hangover. With an ice-pack to our noggins and a 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 Păpucaru’s poetry has been described as “Fran Lebowitz meets T.S. Eliot,” by poet Jacob Scheier, and “supreme” by George Elliott Clarke. Poet Branka Petrovic says of Păpucaru’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. Păpucaru is…
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