Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Stranger at the Door
Poet and literature professor Jeffery Donaldson, author most recently of Granted: Poems of Metaphor (Porcupine’s Quill) explores metaphor in poetry in this experimental dialogue piece (which we’re jumping to share – there’s a little metaphor for you).
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Black Writers’ Series: Focus on Nonfiction
Our Black Writers’ Series continues: this time, with four books that speak the truth. These nonfiction picks are penned by writing partners and collectives, as well as an accomplished businesswoman-turned-politician.
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Top 10: Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Week
February 14th – 21st marks Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Care Week. If you have someone in your life living with Alzheimer’s or Dementia, find support and commiseration with this mix of books that’ll get you in the know.
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Discover your literary love language!
Everyone has a literary love language; the prose, genres, and topics that get your heart pumping. When it’s the right book, you just know. In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, we’ve put together a quiz that will help you identify your lit love language, and recommend some books to go with.
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Featured ALU Titles at Reading for the Love of It
We’re at RFTLOI this week with some great titles. Maybe we’ll see you there? Browse the list below and get 20% off all featured titles.
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First Fiction Friday: What Remains of Elsie Jane
What are the lengths you’d go to see someone you loved, one last time? Such is the question at the centre of Chelsea Wakelyn’s hilarious and heartbreaking debut novel What Remains of Elsie Jane (Dundurn Press), when titular character Elsie Jane loses Sam, the man she thought she’d grow old with.
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Black Writers’ Series: Focus on Poetry
Our next literary focus for Black History Month is poetry. Read below to learn more about some of the Black authors and their books we have here on All Lit Up.
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Beautiful Books: Cyclettes
Tree Abraham’s reflects on her trash collecting from the physical to the digital, which is really just collecting “funny little remnants of the places people have been, those everyday items that we come into contact with and modify, leaving our mark on them”. In the physical form of print, preserving segments that have now become…
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Rereading Rita Joe: A Hearing
In his forthcoming collection of essays Whiteout: How Canada Cancels Blackness (Véhicule Press), poet, writer, and scholar George Elliott Clarke discusses the myriad ways Blackness and other marginalized identities are left out, othered, or actively demonized by the Canadian imagination at large. This excerpted piece has Clarke revisiting the poetics of the “precedent-busting, cigar-store-Indian-splintering, quiet, icon-smashing poet…
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Quoted – The Taste of Hunger
Award-winning writer Barbara Joan Scott walks us through the two quotations that open and close her debut novel The Taste of Hunger (Freehand Books); a fictional saga of a Ukrainian immigrant family, bookended by words from Dennis Lee and Sappho (by the way of Anne Carson).
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Black Writers’ Series: Focus on Fiction
Black History Month is an opportunity for us to reflect on the incredible Black writers we have across the country, writing for all kinds of literary genres. We kick off the month and our Black Writers’ Series with a look at four fantastic fiction writers, with a feature title for each.
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Featured ALU Titles at OLA
This year, with the return of in-person events All Lit Up will be at the OLA Superconference with the LPG in booth #414. All featured titles will be 20% off online and at the event until February 4th. Make sure to check out this amazing selection of books.
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2023 ALU Spring Preview
What are some of the books ALU staff can’t wait to get their hands on this 2023 Spring season? Discover (and preorder!) some of our faves in this sneak preview.
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Queer Coded: Canadian Must-Reads
Join us in celebrating All Lit Up’s first ever segment of Queer Coded. To kick off Queer Coded we’re starting off with a list of Canadian must-reads. Read more below.
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Read This, Then That: Survivor Memoirs
Content warning: This post mentions instances of sexual assault. If you need help, visit Ending Violence for a list of resources.Both Karyn L. Freedman’s One Night in Paris (Freehand Books) and Karin Martel’s Shop Class Hall Pass (Signature Editions) are memoirs about recovering from sexual abuse or assault.
Got any book recommendations?