About the Author
Susan Sanford Blades
Susan Sanford Blades lives in Victoria, BC, where she completed an MFA in fiction at the University of Victoria. Her short stories have been published in literary magazines across Canada and in the US and Ireland, including Minola Review, EVENT, The Moth, The Puritan, Numéro Cinq, The New Quarterly, Grain and Prairie Fire and anthologized in Coming Attractions 16.
Today's ALU Gift Guide book recommendations are care of novelist and popular book blogger Kerry Clare who shares five fantastic BFF-inspired book picks.
For the dramedy-all-day-every-day folks on your list, today's BINGEMAS haul is all about family drama: gift them literary follow-ups to hit TV shows This Is Us and Better Things.
This week we rounded up some spooky and strange books for Halloween reading, welcomed Stoop City author Kristyn Dunnion in the Indie Reading Room, saw one of our beloved publishers Kitty Lewis off to retirement, and more.
This week we went punk rock, reflected on Frankfurt Book Fair 2020, welcomed an author in the Indie Reading Room, and more!
Guest DJ-ing this edition of Mixtape is author Susan Sanford Blades who made us a bangin' playlist to pair with her debut novel Fake it so Real (Nightwood Editions), about the fallout from a punk-rock lifestyle and its effect on the subsequent generations of one family. Scroll ... Read more
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