With all the nostalgia of the 90's comes Olivia Robinson's debut novel The Blue Moth Motel (Breakwater Books). Set against the backdrop of beautiful Prince Edward Island, the story follows one family's struggle to to make the best of an unconventional life.

For week three of ALU Summer Book Club, we share some words from Eric Dupont about Quebec literature, along with excerpts from Life in the Court of Matane and a foreword by Heather O'Neill.

ALU Summer Book Club is on! We virtually chatted with Peter McCambridge, translator and fiction editor at QC Fiction, an imprint of Baraka Books, about bringing to Eric Dupont's novel Life in the Court of Matane to English readers. Read on for a preview from the book and our ... Read more

In his recently published collection of autobiographical work  Represented Immobilized (Conundrum Press), Montreal punk legend and alternative cartoonist Rick Trembles brings together schoolyard scuffles, seedy matinees, and run-ins with inept riot cops for an unflinching ... Read more

Back at it for another year, we at All Lit Up made reading resolutions to challenge us throughout 2021. Scroll on for our reading resolutions and books in our TBR piles this year.

When Heather O’Neill writes that “artists are notorious for creating their art under the most perilous and inopportune circumstances,” I want so desperately to believe it. 

In an essay for  Maclean's, she states: “They create in poverty, under repressive regimes, ... Read more

Author Bindu Suresh gives us the poetry of line expanded in her novel 26 Knots (Invisible Publishing), about the tangled stories of four Montrealers and their success and failure at finding love. In this ALU Read the Provinces feature, Bindu shares more about the book ... Read more

First Fiction Friday covers all kinds of debuts – this one happens to be celebrated Montreal writer Abla Farhoud's first novel translated into English!  Hutchison Street (Linda Leith Publishing) is a love letter to books and writing, and to the varied inhabitants of Montreal. ... 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!

This is our THIRD time painting the Giller shortlist onto our digits (see 2015 and 2016 here) – we can't stop, won't stop our excitement for this year's deserving nominees. Of course, we're most excited for Michelle Winter's  I Am a Truck (Invisible Publishing)...there ... Read more