So far this Short Story Month we've featured single-author short story collections; a great way to see a writer grapple with different themes and forms in their craft. As May winds to a close, we're all about anthologies: multi-author collections that serve up a little bit of ... Read more

Our team has sure loved reading and discussing the 24 exceptional short stories in the anthology  After Realism, edited by André Forget and published by Véhicule Press. But what's after After Realism? We keep the anthology train running and recommend four great ones ... Read more

The ALU team met via Zoom to gush over the varied stories in our August book club pick - the anthology  After Realism (Véhicule Press) - and, spoiler alert, suggest that it might be the most ALU book club pick of all time (?!). Read on to catch some of the highlights of ... 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

The Summer of Andrés continues with our August #ALUbookclub pick,  After Realism, a short fiction anthology edited by André Forget and published by Véhicule Press. To kick off the month, we share André Forget's introduction to the book and interview Véhicule Press ... Read more

With the ALU summer book club, it's never truly goodbye - especially when we have great reads on deck acting as fitting follow-ups to our summer picks. For July's pick  Ring by André Alexis (Coach House Books), we look at a handful of novels and a poetry collection to pick ... Read more

We're unofficially subtitling our seventh (!) annual summer book club "The Summer of Andrés." Why? Because our two summer picks happen to be by folks named André. In July we have the culmination of André Alexis' quincunx,  Ring (Coach House Books). And in August, we ... Read more