Another frosty weekend? No problem. Just cozy up with one, or all, of three ReLit Award winners below, and we’ll see you back on Monday.
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On the Blog
~ Author Erin Wunker talks reading as joyful resistance for International Women’s Day, and gets us started with a booklist.~ We compared two Montreal books in translation: the darky sexual Breakneck by Nelly Arcan (Anvil Press) and the autofictional living will Testament by Vickie Gendreau (BookThug) in Read This, then That.~ We talked to two fearless literary women—Bianca Spence and author Elisabeth de Mariaffi—who were instrumental in organizing International Women’s Day marches in Canada.~ Every Friday in March, we’re highlighting underrepresented stories with personal essays by authors who immigrated to Canada. This week Phinder Dulai, author of dream / arteries (Talonbooks) shares his journey from England to Canada as a Punjabi boy in the 70s.Â
Around the Web
Loganberry/Facebook~ Three books from ALU-member publishers won a 2016 ReLit Award: One Hundred Days of Rain by Carellin Brooks (BookThug), Debrisby Kevin Hardcastle (Biblioasis), and The Brief Reincarnation of a Girl by Sue Goyette (Gaspereau Press).~ For International Women’s Day, this Cleveland bookstore flipped the switch and turned all male-authored novels backwards on shelves.~ If you like books and riddles, Buzzfeed will test your pop lit knowledge with this fun quiz.Â
What Else We’re Reading
We picked up these three ReLit Award-winning books, and there’s something in here for everyone: Poetry from The Brief Reincarnation of a Girl by Susan Goyette (Gaspereau Press), short fiction from Debris by Kevin Hardcastle (Biblioasis), and a novel from One Hundred Days of Rain by Carellin Brooks.Â
