In Review: The Week of January 6th

On the Blog

We’re highlighting authors across Canada this month with ALU Read the Provinces. Check out interviews with authors in every province and territory, read excerpts from their work, and get 15% off their books until January 31!This week on the blog:British Columbia: Anna, Like Thunder by Peggy Herring (Brindle & Glass) & Nootka Sound in Harmony by Spencer Sheehan-Kalina (Rebel Mountain Press)Alberta: Malled: Deciphering Shopping in Canada by Kit Dobson (Wolsak and Wynn) & The Death of Annie the Water Witcher by Lightning by Audrey J. Whitson (NeWest Press)Saskatchewan: The Afterlife of Birds by Elizabeth Philips (Freehand Books) & Hiraeth by Carol Rose Daniels (Inanna Publications)Manitoba: Even That Wildest Hope by Seyward Goodhand (Invisible Publishing) & This Has Nothing to Do With You by Lauren Carter (Freehand Books)Stay tuned next week for more Read the Provinces features!

Around the Web

~ The Canada Reads 2020 longlist was announced with five All Lit Up favourites among the nominated titles, including Dear Scarlet by Teresa Wong (Arsenal Pulp Press); The Dishwasher by Stéphane Larue, translated by Pablo Strauss (Biblioasis); Amphibian by Carla Gunn (Coach House Books); Sputnik’s Children by Terri Favro (ECW Press); The Youth of God by Hassan Ghedi Santur (Mawenzi House Publishers).~ If you had to fight a WWI poet, which should you fight a la Electric Literature.~ A reader who didn’t read any books by white authors for a whole year shares what she learned via Bustle.

In Case You Missed It

We welcomed 2020 with new bookish resolutions and reading challenges + books we’re putting to the top of our TBR piles! Click here to check out what we’re resolving this year.