About the Author
Harold Johnson
Harold Johnson is the author of four novels and one work of non-fiction. After a stint in the Canadian Navy, which began at the age of seventeen, Johnson became a packsack miner and logger across northern and western Canada. In 1991 he quit the mines to pursue a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Saskatchewan and a Master of Law degree from Harvard University. He now works as a Crown Prosecutor in La Ronge, Saskatchewan and lives “off the grid” with his wife Joan at the north end of Montreal Lake where they continue the traditions of trapping and commercial fishing common to Harold’s Cree background.
We love tuning into CBC’s Canada Reads, and this year was no exception. We have some If You Liked x follow up reads to the books championed during the debates.
Did someone order a literary festival? There are a whopping four this week, plus tons of launches and readings (if those weren't enough!).
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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:
It's day three of our gift guide week, where we've asked lit experts from all fields of the book game to weigh in on what they'd like to give most this holiday season. Today's recommender is Nathan Adler, who picked five (plus one!) fantastic Indigenous-authored books to ... Read more
It's Day Four of our Super Secret Festival of Lit mystery title reveals! Our decidedly-dystopian First Nations voices pick won a Saskatchewan Book Award for painting a frightening vision of a US-annexed Canada. Buy any one of our selected First Nations reads from now until ... Read more
Dystopian fiction is nothing new at this point to anyone who’s picked up a book in the last five plus years. In all that noise, here we have two thought-provoking literary reads that have something to say about the state of the world but aren’t trying to shove it down your ... Read more
WAKE UP from that Turkey-coma: there's literary events to be had. If you're in Toronto, be sure to celebrate the LPG's 40th Anniversary with us at Ben McNally this Thursday. And if you're not, there's tons of great things going on Canada-wide, like WordFest in Calgary! ... Read more
Not only did the 1970s small press movement see the creation of our parent organization, the Literary Press Group of Canada, but also Saskatchewan publisher Thistledown Press. 2015 marks the 40th anniversary for both companies.
Live in Saskatchewan? You're in luck! Our featured readings and events are decidedly prairie-based this week. Though, don't feel left out if you're in the wider prairies (aka Calgary), Toronto, and Vancouver: we've got events listings for y'all, too.
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