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Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Writer’s Block: Dean Serravalle

    Writer’s Block: Dean Serravalle

    We electronically sat down with Dean Serravalle, author of multiple novels including the latest Where I Fall, Where She Rises (Inanna Publications) to ask our Proust-style questions about stand-out writing moments (spoiler: the story includes police and a burned-down restaurant), rewarding moments in writing, and love at first read.

  • In Review: The Week of July 22nd

    In Review: The Week of July 22nd

    With the final days of July, we bid goodbye to this month’s #ALUbookclub pick Echolocation with some follow-up reads, chatted with activist and poet Tunchai Redvers, offered up a Do-Lit-Yourself to protect your books, and more! 

  • #WeekendReads: Revenge plots, love knots and marriage misery

    #WeekendReads: Revenge plots, love knots and marriage misery

    This weekend, we explore the New York art scene, get tangled up in a series of love knots, and rage over home renovations. Pack that summer book bag and get lost…in one of our recommended reads below.

  • Do Lit Yourself: Book Sleeves

    Do Lit Yourself: Book Sleeves

    You know the feeling: you’ve just bought a new book with crisp pages and fresh book smell and you’re excited to take it out on the town. At the end of a full week of commuting, you pull it out of your bag and cringe to find that your brand new book is looking a…

  • ALU Book Club: Further reading after Echolocation

    ALU Book Club: Further reading after Echolocation

    For our final week of our July book club, we’ve rounded up four follow-up reads to Karen Hofmann’s Echolocation (NeWest Press) that’ll keep the short story times rolling.

  • On activisim and poetry: An interview with Tunchai Redvers

    On activisim and poetry: An interview with Tunchai Redvers

    Poet and Indigenous activist Tunchai Redvers whose national youth-led organization We Matter support Indigenous youth around mental health chats with us about how her activism informs her poetry, the event that brought her debut collection Fireweed (Kegedonce Press) into the world, and what her partner and current read have in common.

  • In Review: The Week of July 15th

    In Review: The Week of July 15th

    From author interviews to our take on film adaptation to the Tough Mudder of vocabulary tests, our weekly roundup has it all and more! 

  • An Interview with Author Eve Joseph

    An Interview with Author Eve Joseph

    Eve Joseph’s Quarrels (Anvil Press) has seen some major buzz since recently winning the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize. Eve joins us on the All Lit Up blog to share more about how french poetry has inspired her first collection of prose poetry, how solitude helps her write, and her focus on minute bits of reality in…

  • Under the Cover: Discovering Shakespeare in the 21st Century

    Under the Cover: Discovering Shakespeare in the 21st Century

    A staple of ones formative high school years, Shakespeare often feels so familiar it’s hard to think there is anything we might NOT know about the well-beloved Bard and his work at this point. But science tells us something different. Author and science journalist Dan Falk takes us under the cover of his book, The Science…

  • ALU Book Club: Interview with Karen Hofmann

    ALU Book Club: Interview with Karen Hofmann

    Week three of ALU Book Club has us in the lucky position to ask author Karen Hofmann all our burning readerly questions about her short story collection Echolocation (NeWest Press).

  • Character Study: Paper Lions

    Character Study: Paper Lions

    We think Sohan S. Koonar’s Paper Lions, an epic multi-generational novel about India, set in the years from the advent of the Second World War to the beginning of modern times in the 1960s, is just begging to be turned into a film. With a dream cast from publisher Mawenzi House and the directions “we’re…

  • In Review: The Week of July 8th

    In Review: The Week of July 8th

    This week we brought you our #aluhotsummer reading reccos, bookclubbed on a patio, and learned about the silent book club (of which ours is not).

  • Hot Summer Reads: YA Picks

    Hot Summer Reads: YA Picks

    Our final #aluhotsummer picks are for the young at heart: check out our roundup of five books that will make your inner teen yeet. 

  • Hot Summer Reads: Magical & Dystopian Picks

    Hot Summer Reads: Magical & Dystopian Picks

    For many of us, summer vacation is a chance to take a break from our regular daily schedule: wake up, shower, eat, work, eat, sleep, REPEAT. It can get pretty monotonous. But that doesn’t mean your summer reads have to be. We’ve picked a selection of five books beyond the ordinary that’ll give your brain…

  • ALU Book Club: Echolocation Discussion

    ALU Book Club: Echolocation Discussion

    Last week, we introduced you to our July book club pick Echolocation by Karen Hofmann with a behind-the-scenes with publisher NeWest Press about how the book came to be. This week was our turn to get chatty about what we loved most about the book, passages that we just had to re-read, and music that…

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