If you liked getting an insight into Canadian life through stories of some of its famous and not-so-famous citizens in The Promise of Canada, you might like to follow it up with Geoff Mynett's  River of Mists: People on the Upper Skeena 1821-1930 (Caitlin Press).

Award-winning author and poet Thomas Trofimuk - most recently of  The Elephant on Karlův Bridge (Thistledown Press) - answers our Proust questionnaire. He dreams up his perfect writing day (including a café where you can still get espresso for $1.50) shares his advice ... Read more

Twenty-four staggeringly talented authors contributed to our August #ALUbookclub pick, After Realism (Véhicule Press). We talk with anthology editor André Forget about making a cohesive collection out of two-dozen unique voices, and why a good revisiting of realist writing ... Read more

Called "a loving portrait of the people you think you know, but don't really" by Omar Mouallem, Katie Bickell's  Always Brave, Sometimes Kind (Brindle & Glass) is a collection of linked short stories following a network of people throughout Alberta. We chat with Katie on ... Read more

As a teenager Margaret Nowaczyk immigrated to Canada with her family from Communist Poland, determined to fit into a new culture and equally determined to become a doctor. Making her way through medical school at the University of Toronto, Margaret worked her way to becoming ... Read more

Taking us under the cover of her latest novel Time Squared (ECW Press)—"a time travel book centring on the role of women over the centuries"—Lesley Krueger discusses the perpetual seesawing of women's progress towards equality through history to present day, from corsets ... Read more

Adam Mardero's  Uncommon Sense (Latitude 46 Publishing) is a brave new book that delves into the labels and misunderstandings that arise from being on the autism spectrum. In this memoir, Adam untangles the myths and stigma of those on the spectrum and chronicles the life-long ... Read more

In sfumato (Blue Moon Publishers), poet and performer David Stones collects new and previously published poems that explore the human experience. In bold, striking pieces that are at turns playful and pensive, life, love, and loss are keenly observed and interpreted. This ... Read more

Week three of ALU Summer Book Club has us in the lucky position to ask author Shani Mootoo all of our burning readerly questions about her irresistibly readable novel Polar Vortex (Book*hug Press). Read on for our interview with Shani about identity and intersections, art ... Read more

A near-future dystopian debut novel set in Alberta in 2058, Watershed (Freehand Books) by Calgary storyteller and musician Doreen Vanderstoop considers what happens after the glaciers are gone and water has become our most previous natural resource.