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Read the Provinces: Janet Trull
Ontario-based author Janet Trull’s debut short story collection Hot Town and Other Stories (At Bay Press), is a compelling small-town Canadian experience full of quirky, complex characters, plot twists and surprise endings that Janet attributes to a “lifetime of eavesdropping.” Below she tells us more about her collection, how small-town life shaped her identity, and…
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Read the Provinces: D.A. Lockhart
Devil in the Woods (Brick Books), the fourth collection from D.A. Lockhart, features letters and prayer poems that convey the experiences of an Anishnaabe man interacting with famous non-Indigenous Canadians from Don Cherry to Emily Carr. Through Indigenous poetics, this collection pushes back against the dominant view of Canadian political and pop-culture history and creates space…
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In Review: The Week of January 6th
Happy reading in 2020! We’re back at it with ALU Read the Provinces, highlighting authors across Canada: read interviews and excerpts from their books and get 15% off our selected titles until the end of the month.
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Read the Provinces: Seyward Goodhand
In today’s Read the Provinces, we chat with Winnipeg-based author Seyward Goodhand about her debut short story collection Even That Wildest Hope (Invisible Publishing)—a quirky and inventive collection that takes you on an unnerving but satisfying journey to antique and futuristic places—what it was like growing up in rural Hastings County (“Lord of the Flies-y”),…
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Read the Provinces: Lauren Carter
Our next Manitoba-based author is the delightful Lauren Carter whose second compulsively readable novel This Has Nothing To Do With You (Freehand Books) is about a brother and sister who are struggling to come to terms with the murder of their father and his mistress by their mother. Below we chat with Lauren about how…
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Read the Provinces: Elizabeth Philips
Saskatchewan-based author and poet Elizabeth Philips is not all that unlike the main character of her debut novel The Afterlife of Birds (Freehand Books) – living in the city, sharing an eccentric love of bones and finding an understanding of the world through nature. In our Read the Provinces interview below, Elizabeth shares more about the story,…
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Read the Provinces: Carol Rose GoldenEagle (Daniels)
By definition, the word Hiraeth translates to a feeling of desire to return to a home or a place that you can no longer return to. Saskatchewan-based poet Carol Rose GoldenEagle (Daniels) joins us in this Read the Provinces feature to discuss her collection of the same name (Hiraeth, Inanna Publications) and how essential this writing has…
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Read the Provinces: Audrey J. Whitson
Our second Alberta-based author of the day is Audrey J. Whitson, sharing more about her book The Death of Annie the Water Witcher by Lightning (NeWest Press), a poetic and compelling story that shows us how the fading out of an idyllic rural tradition gives way to a new age of climate change. In this Read…
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Read the Provinces: Kit Dobson
Alberta-based author Kit Dobson joins us for this Read the Provinces interview to chat about his book Malled: Deciphering Shopping in Canada (Wolsak and Wynn), in which, through travel to sites of artistic reference, he explores how the capitalism of shopping places across Canada stands to impact the present and future ecology of our cultural spaces. Dobson shares…
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Read the Provinces: Peggy Herring
Here to start off Read the Provinces—our celebration of authors across Canada—is BC-based author Peggy Herring. Below Peggy tells us about the fascinating research behind her novel Anna, Like Thunder (Brindle & Glass Publishing), a fresh retelling of the story of St. Nikolai, the Russian ship that ran aground off the Olympic Peninsula into Indigenous…
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Read the Provinces: Authors Across Canada
At All Lit Up we know Canadian books to be compelling, genre-bending, out-of-the-box literature that we love to share. That’s why all January long we’re bringing you interviews with authors from every province and just about every territory along with excerpts from their books. What’s more: we’re taking 15% off all Read the Provinces books…
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Read the Provinces: Spencer Sheehan-Kalina
The impetus behind Spencer Sheehan-Kalina’s children’s book Nootka Sound in Harmony (Rebel Mountain Press) came on a paddling trip around Nootka Sound in British Columbia when he discovered his love for Vancouver Island’s rugged north. Below we chat with Spencer about his book—children’s poetry that highlights the beauty of Nootka Sound and animals who live…
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2020 All Lit Up Bookish Resolutions
Six years strong, it’s something of a tradition at All Lit Up to make bookish resolutions at the beginning of the year – and we’re back with more for 2020! Check out what team ALU is resolving this year, and which books we’re putting straight on top of our 2020 TBR piles.Happy new year! May…
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In Review: The Week of December 16th
Our last In Review of the year includes holiday baking (+ cookie puns), Pantone colour inspo, surrealism (on brand for the holidays), and more! Thank you, All Lit Up reader, for following along with our bookish exploits and adventures all year and we hope you’ll be back in 2020.Happy holidays!
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Off/Kilter x Beautiful Books: Try Not to Get Too Attached
With its melding of poetry and collage – of line and colour – Robin Richardson’s Try Not to Get Too Attached (Book*hug Press) is a dark and beautiful ode to the undying question of what it means to be human. I sat down with Robin to find out more about her surreal artistic style, translating the…
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