Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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This Week in Lit Events: August 21-27th
This week is a taste of literary things to come: exciting festivals, readings (both conventional and not) and a special event at Montreal’s Holocaust Memorial Centre.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…
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In Review: The Week of August 14th
We had some “inconceivable!” exploits this week – read on to check out interviews, top 10s, and five Instagram accounts to follow for World Photo Day.
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Must-Follow Canadian Book Instagrams for World Photo Day
It’s #FollowFriday, and we can’t think of better follow-ees than these five fantastic, Canadian book Instagram accounts, in honour of World Photo Day this August 19th.
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Top 10: Plays that make you go hmmm
As an ode to summer Fringe festivals, we rounded up a list of published plays that had us thinking and talking for this edition of Top 10.
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ALU Book Club: Interview with Xue Yiwei
We’re in week three August Book Club and all things Shenzheners (Linda Leith Publishing). While we don’t like to play favourites, week three is our number one: we got to electronically sit down with author Xue Yiwei and ask him those burning questions we had around his fantastic collection of short stories. Check out our interview, below.
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Character Study: The Heavy Bear
When we asked Tim Bowling who he would cast for the film adaptation of his novel The Heavy Bear (Wolsak & Wynn Publishers)—a novel about a middle-aged father who finds himself on a journey in Edmonton with the ghost of Buster Keaton and other far-fetched characters—the result was a fittingly unlikely cast.
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This Week in Lit Events: August 14-20th
Our events are 100% bicoastal this week: there’s the Writers at Woody Point Festival over in Newfoundland, and the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts in Sechelt, BC.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…
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In Review: The Week of August 7
This week our book club got real chatty about China, love, and translation and stepped up our London, ON knowledge (did you know Kim Mitchel’s song “Patio Lanterns” wasn’t named after the dangling bulbs on the patio of a favourite bar?!).
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Quoted: Winter Child
Translated from French into English, Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau’s Winter Child (Freehand Books) is a raw, poetic novel about grief as a Métis woman traces the life and death of her son. The Montreal Review of Books says of the novel: “Pésémapéo Bordeleau has woven together an exercise in sitting with and moving through pain.” We delve…
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Poetry in Motion: Lyricism through Communication in Domenico Capilongo’s send
In his latest poetry collection send (from Guernica Editions), Domenico Capilongo eschews other poetic topics for those that we encounter everyday: the media we use to communicate. His poems explore not only how they’ve changed through time but also if they truly allow us to express ourselves and hear each other.
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ALU Book Club: Shenzheners Discussion
Team ALU couldn’t wait to get back in the “studio” (aka, boardroom + old MacBook) to record our latest book club discussion, this time for August pick Shenzheners by Xue Yiwei (Linda Leith Publishing). We talked about the nature of literature in translation, preconceived, North American notions of China, and l-o-v-e in this beautifully-written short story…
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Where in Canada: London Calling
London, Ontario is a larger-than-average small metro of 375,000 people that is both conservative and home to punks and graffiti artists. With stately Victorian homes and loads of malls, London seems a city of contradictions. Vanessa Brown and Jason Dickson capture this oddness with charming specificity in London: 150 Cultural Moments (Biblioasis), a book that…
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This Week in Lit Events: August 7-13th
We hope you’re enjoying a much-deserved holiday Monday today (whatever it happens to be called in your neck of the woods). With that extra rest, why not use that energy on one of these great literary events this week?Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All Lit Up? Send…
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In Review: The Week of July 31st
This week we got trendy with food, cooled down with some paLITas, and started our August book club!
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Do-Lit-Yourself: PaLITas
I scream, you scream, we all scream for…paletas! Better known as popsicles here up north, paletas are the perfect thing to beat the heat. On today’s Do-Lit-Yourself, we’re serving PaLITas: popsicle recipes that hearken back to some of our favourite summer reads. (P.S. If you think popsicles are for babies, these can all contain booze…
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