Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Writer’s Block: Theresa Kishkan
We chat with writer Theresa Kishkan about genre (it’s better not to let it rule you), her latest book, Euclid’s Orchard and Other Essays from Mother Tongue Press (it’s surprisingly “math-y” but don’t let that scare you), and her place on the northern part of the Sechelt Peninsula (it’s gorgeous).
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Beautiful Books: Ghost Warning
Toronto features as a character in Kara Stanley’s Ghost Warning:we explore its underbelly of urban crime, the vibrancy of its streets and communities, and the eccentricities of life in the city along with the novel’s main character, Lou James. It’s no wonder publisher Caitlin Press chose a Toronto-centric image for its cover licensed from Tom Chitty,…
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Back to School with The Wolf is Back
It’s the first day of school for many kids across Canada, but what does that mean when your school is underfunded, uninspiring, and dangerous? Children’s poet and musician Robert Priest joins us with a tale of his tour of The Wolf is Back, which features a poem about, and took his travels to Attawapiskat First Nation.…
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This Week in Lit Events: September 4-10th
Happy long weekend! Dive head-first into the Fall literary season with launches and reading series this week.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.
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In Review: The Week of August 28th
We’re not pulling out our heavy cardigans just yet, but we are gearing up for the change in seasons with our 2017 Fall Preview. Check out our book picks and what else we got up to this week.
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Fall Preview: Staff Picks
We put away our preemptive end-of-summer blues to look ahead to one of our favourite seasons: fall book bingeing. Check out what some of us at All Lit Up are putting at the top of our TBR piles this fall.
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If You Liked x, Read y: Netflix Edition II
With it being an unusually rainy summer here in southerneastern Ontario, we’ve been watching a little more Netflix than we’d care to admit. If you too have been asked “Are you still watching…?” too many times to feel comfortable, why not hit the ‘flix with a seldom-heard “NO” and pick up one of these follow-up…
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Jules’ Tools for Social Change: Hidden Lives
Welcome to this month’s edition of Jules’ Tools for Social Change, a column that features a book, author or publisher whose work deals with issues of race, gender, sexuality, ability, colonialism, economic justice, or other social justice topics.
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Read This, Then That: Whose Story Is It Anyway?
In this edition of Read This, Then That we chose two books that ask one big question: who has the right to tell whose story? Liliana Heker’s The End of the Story, translated by Andrea Labinger (Biblioasis) and Martha Baillie’s If Clara (Coach House Books) contemplate ethical questions around authorship and the right to another person’s story.
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This Week in Lit Events: August 28-September 3rd
It’s that last week before the big “S” starts for lots of families across the country, and the big “F” (Fall publishing season, that is), comes for US ALL. Embrace the temporary lull with this week’s two great literary events.Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All Lit Up?…
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In Review: The Week of August 21st
This week we said goodbye to Shenzheners with a list of books to read, found ourselves checking out cars (the kind on book covers!), and enjoyed a literary-inspired cocktail.
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Chappy Hour: Jasmine Gin Cocktail + Out of Place
Over in the ALU book club, we discussed a collection about the Chinese city of Shenzhen and the people who live there. In this month’s Chappy Hour, I took a look at a poetry collection set in another part of China — Hong Kong. In Out of Place (Quattro Books), Kate Rogers’ poems document the…
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Writer’s Block: Sally Cooper
We electronically sat down with Sally Cooper, author of Smells Like Heaven (ARP Books), to talk about writing rituals, Severus Snape, and following your nose through life’s tough choices.***PSST: Smells Like Heaven is 20% off today and tomorrow, so what’s stopping you from diving into this interconnected collection of short stories that take place over thirty years in…
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ALU Book Club: Further Reading after Shenzheners
We’re turning the last page on our August book club pick, Shenzheners by Xue Yiwei (Linda Leith Publishing): a move that has us, like book-lovers around the world, looking for our next read. We pored over tons of titles that struck the same lonely, introspective chords that Shenzheners did, and came up with these four that…
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Cover Collage: Chasing Cars
With our HQ based in the city, most of us at ALU consider cars those exciting things you rent to go to IKEA – but in all truth, they’re ubiquitous on some of our favourite poetry collections, novels, and short story collections. In this cover collage, we’re ignoring the downsides of automobiles (pollution, taking up…
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