Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Quoted: Michael E. Casteels’ The Last White House at the End of the Row of White Houses
Michael E. Casteels debut poetry collection was just published by Invisible Publishing: The Last White House at the End of the Row of White Houses. With a title like that we were intrigued to learn more about Michael and his inspiration. From moths to dogs, Michael shares with us two memorable quotes that he kept…
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This Week in Lit Events: October 3-9th
Need a pre-turkey/tofurkey appetizer before this Thanksgiving weekend? Hit up one or all of the bevy of reading series, book launches, and seasonal launches going down 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…
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In Review: The Week of September 26th
Team ALU is relaxing this weekend after a busy week — it was so great to see so many of you at WOTS and WORD last weekend! We hope you’re enjoying your weekend before the busy holiday season kicks off next week with Thanksgiving. We have a special, tasty treat planned for the blog coming…
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First Fiction Fridays: Max’s Folly
Bill Turpin, an ex-journalist and communications director, who has been a faithful defender of truth and freedom of the press, draws on his past experiences to explore the world of journalism, and to bring to light the lost art of old fashioned newspapering.
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Chappy Hour: Tidal Fury + Sea Cube
Tidal Fury by Brenda Clews (Guernica Editions) is a collection of poetry sitting on the shores of an interior ocean, one filled with fury and passion. I chose the Sea Cube because it captures the taste of the ocean in a cocktail, using salt to draw out the bittersweet flavours of the other ingredients, just…
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Under the Cover: Waiting Room, the Tour
Poet Jennifer Zilm discusses the spaces that inspire her debut collection, Waiting Room (BookThug) – which, you could follow, are waiting rooms. From the waiting rooms of safe injection sites to psychiatrists, departure gates to dentists, Zilm revisits the rooms where she wrote her poems in, and the rooms she brought her poems to, in this edition…
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Milk and Momotaro: We’re Canadian, Aren’t We?
Milk and Momotaro. Everything a Canadian does is Canadian. Those lines uttered by Aunt Emily stuck in my mind. A few lines earlier in the paragraph, the Japanese word ‘majime’ appears, making these words in this particular novel something a Canadian had written. What Joy Kogawa did by incorporating these words in her text was…
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This Week in Lit Events: September 26-October 2nd
In Winnipeg? In luck! There are Thin Air Festival happenings all week, plus launches and reading series Ontario-over.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 September 19th
It’s been a busy week prepping for a busy weekend: we’ll be at both Word on the Street Toronto and WORD Vancouver this weekend! We hope to see many of you there but if you don’t live in the GTA or Vancouver, we’ve gathered some bookish news and a hilarious book recommendation for you right…
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First Fiction Fridays: Paper Teeth
Lauralyn Chow’s debut, an interconnected collection of short stories, follows the Lee family from the 1960s to the present day – a journey of intergenerational gatherings, laughter, and unbelievable food. In fact, each story’s title named after a Chinese food menu. Hungry to read this collection, yet?
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Read This, Then That: Family Matters
At the heart of both of these novels are families who have suffered a loss and are now trying to pick up the pieces. As they do, secrets are uncovered and some wounds continue to fester, with no solution in sight.
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Where in Canada: A Newfoundland Double-Header
Newfoundland: Both Stan Dragland and Craig Francis Power establish themselves as shrewd, clear-sighted witnesses to literary Newfoundland culture with these two new titles, and in Dragland’s case, to epic comedy as well. Both writers tackle the new contradictions besetting NL, thinking through these changing times while living through the pangs of those changes.
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Poetry in Motion: Appetites and Marriage in Julie Cameron Gray’s Lady Crawford
Julie Cameron Gray’s second collection of poetry, Lady Crawford (Palimpsest Press), is Anna Karenina gone furious: an assemblage of poems that deal with unmanaged expectations of (royal) marriage, materialism, and parties.(BONUS: Last week, we featured Lady Crawford in our “It’s My Party” list of CanLit ragers).
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This Week in Lit Events: September 19-24th
Not enough literary festivals last week for you? Check out this week, with festivals in Victoria, Vancouver, Lethbridge, Winnipeg, and Toronto. But that’s not all!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…
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In Review: The Week of September 12th
We’re starting to come down from our sugar high after our internet birthday (we turned two!) on Thursday so we’ll likely be under a pile of new fall books this weekend, taking it easy. We hope you’re having a relaxing and enjoyable weekend too! Read on for some bookish news and our geo-specific book recommendation…
Got any book recommendations?