In Review: The Week of May 25th

On the Blog

~ Brad Casey, author of The Handsome Man (Book*hug Press) talks to us about community and writing, political solidarity, and why Ma Anand Sheela is his favourite “fictional” character: “We can create communities, create opportunities for each other ⁠— we don’t need the system in place, we can create our own systems.~ Our Off/Kilter column heads into the kitchen for #ShortStoryMonth to bring you the tasty ingredients for 5 books that’ll make your quarantine more digestible.~ Debut fiction by by Calgary storyteller and musician Doreen Vanderstoop is a literary mashup of Atwood’s dystopian fiction and Fred Stenson’s prairie life novels: Watershed (Freehand Books) is a near-future dystopian novel set in Alberta for anyone wondering what climate change might mean for us 

Around the Web

~ A new literary journal called The Quarantine Review — featuring writers like Stacey May Fowles, Paul Vermeersch, and A.G. Pasquella — is being released in June (and we’re here for it). ~ Arsenal Pulp Press publisher Brian Lam was named the 2020 recipient of Lambda Literary’s Publishing Professional Award for ~ Bookish Zoomers know the bookcase flex all too well — we see you.

ICYMI (last week)

Watch This, Read That: Netflix Edition

If you relate hard to those “Netflix are you still watching memes?” check out these three literary follow-ups to your favourite #Netflix shows to offset all the binge-watching

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