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Top 10: Books to Celebrate Nowruz
Happy Nowruz! In honour of the Persian New Year tomorrow, here’s a list of published and forthcoming books – fiction, memoir, drama, and poetry – all by Iranian authors for you to add to your TBR.
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Top 10: Irish Reads for St. Patrick’s Day
If you’re more the type to spend St. Patrick’s Day reading in bed than in a bar, this reading list of books set in Ireland, or with Irish characters, might be what you need to celebrate in spirit.
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Women Asking Women: Raye Anderson and Darlene Madott
In this edition of Women asking Women, mystery writer Raye Anderson (most recently of Down Came the Rain, the third instalment of her Roxanne Calloway series) and novelist/short story writer Darlene Madott (most recently of her ninth book, Winners and Losers) discuss how stories find them and how their existing professions – Raye’s in theatre, Darlene’s in…
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Do-Lit-Yourself: IsThisAnOlogy?
Need some inspiration for a March Break activity? Look no further than here! On the blog today we have a pollination experiment from IsThisAnOlogy? by Amanda Dorothy Jean Bulman, Ruth Lawrence, with Illustrations by Leon Chung (Breakwater Books Ltd.) for all the little beekeepers out there. Follow along below.
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Women Asking Women: Carol Harvey Steski and Manahil Bandukwala
For today’s Women Asking Women series Manahil Bandukwala author of MONUMENT (Brick Books) and Carol Harvey Steski author of rump + flank (NeWest Press) interview each other about both of their poetry collections. They touch on body politics and aesthetic choices, and share some of their favourite poets—read more below.
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Where in Canada: The Last Unsuitable Man
This edition of Where in Canada takes us to BC’s Sunshine Coast, where, despite its sunny name, it serves as a misty, suspenseful backdrop for Louise Carson’s latest mystery, The Last Unsuitable Man (Signature Editions). Below, Carson talks about how setting can complement – and even drive – a mystery narrative, and why she loves the…
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Women Asking Women: Tracey Lindeman and Margaret Nowaczyk
Today’s Women Asking Women interview pairs two women whose books delve into the world of healthcare: Tracey Lindeman and her book BLEED: Destroying Myths and Misogyny in Endometriosis Care, and Dr. Margaret Nowaczyk’s Chasing Zebras: A Memoir of Genetics, Mental Health, & Writing. They ask each other about – among other things – the patriarchal barriers to…
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Beautiful Books: WJD
Gordon Hill Press gives us the insider scoop on the design process for WJD by Khashayar Mohammadi—a double sided poetry collection. The front and back cover is reflective of the duality of the book. Read more below.
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Women Asking Women: Judy LeBlanc and Sarah Ens
Our Women Asking Women series in honour of Women’s History Month kicks off with a candid interview between novelist Judy LeBlanc and poet Sarah Ens. Both of their recent books contend with three generations of women and their shared traumas: Acadians forced from home in LeBlanc’s novel The Broken Heart of Winter, and the displacement…
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Off/Kilter’s Most Anticipated Reads: Spring 2023
While our staff no doubt has eclectic reading tastes (as evidenced in this year’s Spring Preview), this list is for the “eclectic-est” of readers: a roundup of weird, wicked, and wonderful Off/Kilter picks for Spring 2023. Stack your TBR with upcoming horror, dystopic, speculative, meta, and/or experimental fiction.
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Read This, Then That: Oral Musical Histories
Originally released in 2009, Greg Prato’s Grunge is Dead (ECW Press) shines a light on the grunge-rock era that was borne out of Seattle in the early 1990s. Just up the coast, the forthcoming Rubymusic by Connie Kuhns (Caitlin Press) chronicles women musical artists and groups in the 1980s-90s as heard through Rubymusic Radio, a groundbreaking, all-women…
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Quoted: Remnants
In the midst of climate disasters, Natalie Virginia Lang’s poetic prose in Remnants reminds us to appreciate and reignite a passion for our immediate surroundings. How can we rekindle our love to our environment. Read more below.
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Black Writers’ Series: Focus on Kids’ Books
The All Lit Up Black Writers’ Series wraps with a look at five Black writers and/or illustrators working in the kids literary space. Including environmentally-focused picture books to historical nonfiction, share the wealth of Black writing talent with lit lovers of all ages.
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Black Writers’ Series: Focus on Drama
Cue a pun about these four featured writers having a flair for the dramatic, because the Black Writers’ Series continues today with a feature on Black playwrights. These four are multidisciplinary writers / directors / actors, among other talents, and their accompanying works in this post interrogate both historical and contemporary Black life in incisive,…
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Queer Coded: Kids Edition
In honour of the launch of Kids Lit Space, in this Queer Coded segment we thought we would share some heartfelt young queer reads. Over there years there has been more development in creating queer Young Adults and Children literary spaces. It’s great way for kids to connect to another and learn about others and…
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