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Author of Home Game (Signature Editions), the sequel to his highly praised novel Never, Again, Endre Farkas talks to us about being a genre fluid writer, the very real struggle between googling and writing, and his new book.
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.
It's the unofficial first day of the 2019 Major League Baseball season and we're heading full swing into it with a roundup of power hitters—books about baseball.
Hi, Valentines! Our single literary listing is a blowout of a festival on BC's Galiano Island: the Galiano Literary Festival!
Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All Lit Up? Send the event details, including author, book, date, time, ... Read more
The Essential D.G. Jones is the latest in The Porcupine's Quill's series highlighting Canadian poetic voices, some forgotten but always essential. Editor Jim Johnstone, also a celebrated poet himself, kindly shares with us some of the mastery of D.G.'s poetry and where ... Read more
Spring has arrived, and for proof you need look no further than Toronto, where the Blue Jays are preparing to host their first home game of the 2016 season. Baseball, as surely as green grass, new buds, and birdsong, is a door slammed on winter, and an ironclad guarantee that ... Read more
With a whopping over-500 titles in print, Vancouver’s Talonbooks has been publishing one of the finest and most diverse literary lists in Canada for over 50 years.
Born in the "halcyon days" of the 1970s, Montreal's Véhicule Press has done anything but live in that idyllic past. From once being Montreal's only printing/publishing co-op, to delivering the first literary criticisms of CanLit giants like Margaret Atwood and Michael ... Read more
We’re already in the thick of Literary Festival Season, with great events like Halifax’s Word on the Street and Winnipeg’s Thin Air Festival already in session or just passed. We’re here with a roundup of what’s yet to come, so clear your calendar! Things are about ... Read more
If you live in Toronto and you love Canadian Literature then you’ve probably heard of Coach House Books. Coach House burst on the scene when Stan Bevington, a young typesetter from Edmonton, purchased a Challenge Gordon platen press with funds earned by selling prints of the ... Read more
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