Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Under the Cover: Flightpaths
In May 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, just one of her many accomplishments. In Flightpaths: The Amelia Earhart Poems (Caitlin Press)—published around the 80th anniversary of Earhart’s disappearance—poet Heidi Greco has used a range of research materials to create a speculative vision of journal entries, letters to family, and poems and presented…
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ALU Book Club: Intro to Shenzheners
Move over (gently and with great affection), Death and the Intern! August’s instalment of our book club has Xue Yiwei’s Shenzheners (Linda Leith Publishing) in the centre spotlight. National Book Award-winner Ha Jin calls Xue Yiwei’s writing “mak[ing] a pilgrimage to his masters: Joyce, Borges, Calvino, Proust” – and we can’t wait to make our own way into…
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What would the ladies of GLOW read?
Sisterhood of the Squared Circle by Pat Laprade and Dan Murphy (ECW Press), a compelling history of women’s wrestling, and Netflix’s GLOW, a show about a group of female wrestlers in the ’80s, make one fierce tag team: we learned so much about the awesome world of women’s wrestling. But being literary minded, we got to thinking:…
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This Week in Lit Events: July 31-August 6th
Readings from authors both seasoned and starting out in Toronto, Montreal, and Saskatoon, this week in literary events.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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Test Kitchen: Trendy Foods
This edition of Test Kitchen is a little different because we left the ovens off and went out in search of foods we’d never tried before. Inspired by Eaten Back to Life (Invisible Publishing), a series of essays and observations on eating, drinking, and the culture and philosophy of food, we each tried a trendy…
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In Review: The Week of July 24th
With the final days of July, we bid goodbye to this month’s book club pick Death and the Intern (Invisible Publishing) and got preemptively nostalgic about summer.
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Top 10: Nostalgic Summers
Feeling sticky in this summer heat? We’ll bet our bottom dollar that you’ll miss it when those long winter nights roll around, so we’ve jumpstarted the summer nostalgia wagon with the Top 10 literary summers we like remembering best.
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ALU Book Club: Further Reading after Death and the Intern
We’ve been feeling alive with Jeremy Hanson-Finger’s part medical dramedy, part detective story Death and the Intern (Invisible Publishing), so our final July book club post has us excitedly recommending some follow-up reads that’ll keep you sharp and sleuth-y.
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Beautiful Books: Sputnik’s Children
In Terri Favro’s genre-bendingSputnik’s Children (ECW Press), we meet cult comic book creator Debbie Reynolds Biondi, who after struggling to write new plotlines for her super awesome mutant-killing heroine Sputnik Chick, decides it’s time to tell her origin story. Not only did the story intrigue us, the stunning cover art with foiled stars and stylized…
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This Week in Lit Events: July 24-30th
Look east for this week’s literary events: there’s a lot of signings happening in Newfoundland and St. John’s this weekend.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 July 17th
We were lucky enough to interview Jeremy Hanson-Finger, author of our book club pick Death and the Intern (Invisible Publishing), and we made a quiz to help you find your next read whether you’re in the water or on the beach this summer.
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Infographic: What’s My Next Summer Read?
Two things of book lovers we know to be true:Their TBR piles eventually reach a crisis point, and;When that happens, the solution is, weirdly, buy more books.We’re here to help with #2, creating this handy infographic to help you choose your next, great summer read.
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Read This, Then That: Characters on the Margins
In this dramatic edition of Read This, Then That we compare Twisted by Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman and Joseph Jomo Pierre (Playwrights Canada Press) and In Care by Kenneth T. Williams (J. Gordon Shillingford), two plays about disenfranchised and marginalized characters struggling to fight against the systems that keep them down.
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ALU Book Club: Interview with Jeremy Hanson-Finger
If you’ve been following along with our book club, you’ll know what a kick we got out of reading and discussing Jeremy Hanson-Finger’s Death and the Intern (Invisible Publishing) over the last few weeks. But we didn’t just stop there because we’re all about the book club life, so we interviewed Jeremy who gave some very…
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Where in Canada: Ancestral Newfoundland
InThe Bosun Chair (NeWest Press) Jennifer Bowering Delisle recounts her ancestor’s stories of Newfoundland life in the early twentieth century, including shipwrecks, war, and life in an outport community. A hybrid of prose poetry and family memoir, the book reflects on heritage and the ancestral Newfoundland Delisle never knew.
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