In Review: The Week of February 20th

On the Blog

~ Author Michelle Butler Hallett got real about CanLit’s tendency to privilege realism over other writing styles.~ Raymond McGregor, author of The Blue Knight (BookLand Press), joined us for Pink Shirt Day to talk anti-bullying lessons from his YA novel.~ We finished off our Black Voices series for Black History Month with an interview with playwright Donna Michelle St. Bernard (and don’t miss our earlier instalments with Cara-Lyn Morgan and Kaie Kellough, too).~ Poet Gwen Benaway shares the quotations that inspired her latest collection, Passage (Kegedonce Press).

Around the Web

~ Watching the Oscars this weekend? Check out a list of the books behind the movies nominated this year (and maybe take a look at our own book character nominees).~ Simon & Schuster cancelling bigoted crybaby Milo Yiannopolous’ book is just another one bites the dust, as far as we’re concerned.~ Theatres across the US and Canada are 1984, which we think is a doubleplusgood idea.

What Else We’re Reading

LitDistCo GM Julia snapped up Jesse Ruddock’s Shot-Blue, from Coach House Books, the second it came out this week.