About the Author
Andrew Forbes
Andrew Forbes's first book, the story collection What You Need, was a runner-up for the 2016 Danuta Gleed Literary Award, and was shortlisted for the 2016 Trillium Book Prize. His second book, The Utility of Boredom: Baseball Essays, is currently in its fourth printing. Born in Ottawa, he spent much of his childhood in Atlantic Canada, lived in Oxford Mills, Ontario, and currently resides in Peterborough, Ontario with his wife and three children. Find him at andrewgforbes.com.
This week includes August book club, a baseball essay, sickness poetry, horror as a tool for anti-racism, and more.
Two weeks into this year's late MLB season, some of us can appreciate—baseball is BACK! To celebrate we're revisiting an old favourite, Andrew Forbes's The Utility of Boredom (Invisible Publishing), a power-hitter collection of essays for inside baseball types and casual ... Read more
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.
This week we willed some warm weather (spoiler: it didn't work) with our Do-Lit-Yourself hanging planters, read some short fiction for Short Story Month, and said farewell to two CanLit treasures.
The stories in Andrew Forbes' short story collection Lands and Forests (Invisible Publishing) might be described as haunting: stories that dig at the emotional core of women and men who mourn, who discover new passions, who face disappointment, who watch a wildfire consume ... Read more
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.
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
Happy birthday to us! Usually, we ring in our big day with a look ahead to books we can't wait to read in Fall, but since we've already tackled that, we're counting to three with:
We've been patiently waiting to kick off our summer book club with Jeremy Hanson-Finger's Death and the Intern (Invisible Publishing), a medical whodunnit/coming-of-age/dark comedy that's been described by Gary Barwin as a "needle-sharp crime fiction that will definitely ... Read more
There's a coast-to-coast roster of events going down this week, from a 40th anniversary party on the west coast to a night of readings and music in resistance on the east.
Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All Lit Up? Send the event details, ... Read more
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