Short Story Month concludes with Elise Levine's This Wicked Tongue (Biblioasis), a collection that takes an honest and wry look at our inner psyche's and explores our ability to transform ourselves. Below, Elise shares more about the beauty of brevity and shares a story ... Read more

You'd think after four literary hangovers, we'd be better at managing our awards-fuelled reading binges and calling it a night. Proving once again that moderation isn't our strong suit, we bring you our fifth annual Literary Awards Hangover, a coffee-sipping, greasy-spoonin' ... Read more

This week, we interviewed authors, learned some science, shared debut reads and so much more!

Once you read that last chapter of a good book and put it down, there is so much to do and so much to consider. You want to take a moment and decide how it made you feel, or write down your two cents, maybe even cross it off your list and reach for the next book. But my personal ... Read more

And just like that, book club is finished for another summer. We’ve had only ups reading The Figgs’ ups and downs: from interviewing both publisher Freehand Books and author Ali Bryan, and having our own staff discussion that ended in fits of laughter. Because ... Read more

Can you believe it's already week four of July's book club activities? After meeting our pick  Zolitude by Paige Cooper and seeing what the Biblioasis staff had to say, we had our own book club meeting, and interviewed Cooper herself. If you're also not quite ... Read more

Our weekly roundup includes gender-swapped scenes from literary classics, interviews with rad authors, reading and writing in prison, and some of the spookiest books out there.

Week three of ALU Book Club still has us clubbing to the literary stylings of Paige Cooper's short story collection Zolitude (Biblioasis). Today we chat with Paige about empathy and ego in art, writing, voluntary loneliness, and a "utopian fortress at the end of the world." ... Read more

We've got a lot to review this week: from staff discussions and goodbyes to biographical fiction and video games to ill-advised literary wine campaigns...it's all here in our weekly roundup!

Last week, you met July book club pick  Zolitude by Paige Cooper, and heard what Biblioasis editor John Metcalf had to say about the collection. This week, it's Team ALU's turn in the saddle: we commiserate over what we loved about this book, and even end up reading some ... Read more