In Review: The Week of February 5th

On the Blog

~ We didn’t exactly escape the winter, but we did escape into Peter Kirby’s frosty Montreal in The Dead of Winter(Linda Leith Publishing).~ Try our Salty Raccoon cocktail with poetry from Dan MacIsaac’s Cries from the Ark (Brick Books).~ “There is never a moment of two South Africans having a conversation about violence as humans; we are always looking through the Black/White lens.” This Book Betrays My Brother ~Marc Labriola’s The Dying Behaviour of Cats (Quattro Books) is Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Charles Bukowski. 

Around the Web

~ Bookclub on the go with these literary podcasts.~ If plagiarism software existed in the 16th century, Shakespeare might have been in deep trouble.~ New erotica for feminists via McSweeney’s: “I get catcalled on the street by a construction worker. He says that he can see I’m smart because I have enormous books.”

What Else We’re Reading

Mandy is reading Jennifer Spruit’s debut A Handbook for Beautiful People (Inanna Publications), a novel about a young woman who finds herself unexpectedly pregnant, staring into an uncertain future and dealing with the semi-dysfunctional dynamics around her.