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If you thought last week had all the festivals, think again; this week has Thin Air in Winnipeg, Fog Lit in Saint John, Victoria’s Festival of Authors, Poetry Weekend at the University of New Brunswick, Kingston Writers’ Fest, and a bevy of readings and book launches. Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles…
We cheered harder than usual for indies this week: first, for the three Giller Prize longlisted books (scroll down to check them out!), then for super rad indie bookshop Queen Books in Toronto (see our interview, below!).
Annette Lapointe’s You Are Not Needed Now (Anvil Press) is her first collection of short fiction that imagines what happens after you realize the world can go on as usual without you. It dissects the illusion of appearances and optics and shatters the idea of normalcy.
September 21st marks World Alzheimer’s Day, a day where Alzheimer’s organizations around the world concentrate their efforts on raising awareness about Alzheimer’s and dementia. While we’re not an Alzheimer’s organization ourselves, we definitely support the cause: check out this Alzheimer’s reading list, below.
Jamie Reid’s final collection, A Temporary Stranger (Anvil Press) was published posthumously this summer. At the book launch and memorial, a great deal of red wine was consumed in Jamie’s honour. And while the Red Wine Hot Chocolate we featured in February would make a great pairing, I was recently introduced to the more complex…
In April 2017 business partners Alex Snider and Liz Burns opened the doors to Queen Books in Toronto’s Leslieville, a family-friendly neighbourhood with a proud sense of community, green space, countless coffee shops and eateries, and the occasional set for Orphan Black. Find out more about this local bookstore, and check out our interview with…
Did someone order a literary festival? There are a whopping four this week, plus tons of launches and readings (if those weren’t enough!).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 to hello@alllitup.ca to be included in our listings.
We turned three-years-old yesterday and we’re still buzzing from all the cake and memory lane-ing. Find out how else we celebrated, and what other literary goodness was in store this week.
Happy birthday to us! Usually, we ring in our big day with a look ahead to books we can’t wait to read in Fall, but since we’ve already tackled that, we’re counting to three with:Looking back on some fave memories;Sharing 20 books we’ve loved over the years (+ making it 15% easier for you to…
Neal McLeod’s new novel Neechie Hustle (Kegedonce Press), takes a satirical look at history, the Indian Act, and the emergence of “neechie swagger” in the ’60s and ’70s. It also has a culinary focus, prominently featuring bannock, a traditional Indigenous baked or pan-fried bread. While there are several variations of bannock, we were lucky enough…
Our Do-Lit-Yourself column has been around almost as long as All Lit Up has, and one thing (pretty much the only thing) we’re terribly strict about is crafts that don’t involve cutting a book to smithereens for a new Pinterest-y door wreath or whatever. BUT – Google “book crafts” and that’s pretty much all you’re…
Author Brian Busby is on a dusty mission: to dig through the used bookstores and eBay listings alike of CanLit’s forgotten past, detailed in his book, The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis). Below, Brian shares ten noteworthy finds on his bibliophilic journey, including gossip about the Eaton family, radish-heavy dialogue, and “the worst sex scene in all of…
Did someone hit the “Fall events” switch? There are tons of literary events coming your way this week, from coast to coast.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 to hello@alllitup.ca to be included in our listings.
We’ve nearing a milestone on All Lit Up on September 15 when we officially turn three! If you guessed that we already started celebrating you might know us a little too well. Head over to Instagram and Twitter to join the party and get 15% off some of our fave books and collect some highly-coveted…
The National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa was the inspirational site where author Arleen Paré first began thinking about Florence Wyle and Frances Loring, the two women who later became the centre of The Girls with Stone Faces (Brick Books).
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