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Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Season’s Readings: All My Jingle Ladies
Today’s batch of ALU Season’s Readings book picks are for the giftees on your list who wear their Feminist Killjoy pins with pride and follow the get-it-girl mantra.
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Season’s Readings: Brace Your Elves
Brace your elves and get ready for takeoff this holiday season! Today’s bookish picks are for the choose-your-own-adventure-er in your life who doesn’t hesitate to jump on the next flight out to wherever and is always up for taking a chance on a less-travelled path.
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Season’s Readings: Deck the Lolz
It’s the inaugural day of ALU Season’s Readings – a checklist of giftable books for those with all kinds of reading tastes. First up are two books for the chuckleheads on your list whose book collections come complete with a humour ranking.
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ALU Season’s Readings
It’s our inaugural day of ALU Season’s Readings where we pick twenty giftable books for ten kinds of lit lovers on your holiday list. See what we have coming down the chimney every day until December 6th!
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In Review: The Week of November 18th
This week we nursed our literary awards hangover with an ice-pack to the noggin and shared our annual #ALUGiftGuide with book picks from authors we admire.
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Gift Guide Week: Tyler Hellard
Amazon-First-Novel-Award nominee Tyler Hellard (Searching for Terry Punchout, Invisible Publishing) is our final gift guider this season with five all-star hockey books for all the Gretzky-heads on your list.
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Gift Guide Week: Lindsay Nixon
Today we get gift-guided bynîtisânak author Lindsay Nixon, who shares recommendations that range from books that will appeal to your mom, your bestie, your most discerning companions and colleagues and even your friend-without-a-name – a.k.a, your secret santa.
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Gift Guide Week: Lauren Carter
Today’s #ALUgiftguide book recommendations come from the insightful Lauren Carter who shares gifting picks for “your settler mom, wondering what she can do for reconciliation” to “your best feminist friend in university, circa 1992” and more, below.
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Literary Awards Hangover: 2019 Edition
This year’s literary hangover is brought to us by three super awards: the Writers’ Trust Awards, the Giller Prize, and the GGs. Check out our just-as-deserving indie followups to this year’s nominees and winners while we mend our awards-fuelled reading binge with a greasy-spoon and ice-pack combo.
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Gift Guide Week: Téa Mutonji
Our annual Gift Guide Week is back with hand-picked selections by authors we admire for all kinds of readers on your holiday gift list. First up is author, poet and Writers’ Trust finalist Téa Mutonji who shares six choice titles for everyone on your list from best friends to sisters to “those who have wanderlust,…
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In Review: The Week of November 11th
Women who love murder, translations of fantastical lit, and a cat named Ghost were just some of this week’s happenings on All Lit Up. Scroll on for our weekly recap!
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Under the Cover: Refugee stories and Ghost’s Journey
In advance of International Day of Tolerance tomorrow, author Robin Stevenson tells us how her involvement in refugee work led to writing Ghost’s Journey: A Refugee Story (Rebel Mountain Press), a new children’s book inspired by the true story of two gay refugees, Rainer and Eka, and their cat, Ghost.
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Beautiful Books: The Trail of Nenaboozhoo
A collection of sacred Anishinaabe creation stories and the spirit Nenaboozhoo, The Trail of Nenaboozhoo and Other Creation Stories (Kegedonce Press) is the stunning result of a collaboration between Ojibwe storyteller and artist Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch and Michif (Métis) artist and editor Christi Belcourt. Transcribed from Murdoch’s oral storytelling, these stories preserve the history and…
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Behind the Scenes of The Women Who Love Murder: The Mesdames of Mayhem
In 2008, a Sisters in Crime Monitoring Project report revealed that crime fiction written by women doesn’t receive parity in the numbers reviewed by major newspapers; yet female writers have come to dominate the crime fiction market over the last ten years. Luckily collectives like Mesdames of Mayhem, a band of nineteen dedicated women crime…
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Off/Kilter: Interview with Translator Rhonda Mullins
Rhonda Mullins is no stranger to dark and fantastical literature, having translated several novels within that vein for Coach House Books, including The Laws of the Skies, Little Beast and more. We chat with Rhonda about challenges with translating liminal spaces, Victorian literature and tensions between the lyrics of language versus accuracy.
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