In Review: The Week of October 16th

On the Blog

~ We talked Homer Simpson, writing rituals, and the ideal reader with Sam Shelstad, author of Cop House (Nightwood Editions) in Writer’s Block.~ #ALUTimeCapsule continued with the best (and worst) of the ’80s and ’90s.~ We grabbed a PSL and took a scroll through some of ECW Press’s fall-coloured books this season.~ Jasmina Odor’s debut collection You Can’t Stay Here is Tamas Dobozy’s Last Notes meets Lisa Moore’s Open.

Around the Web

~ Author Aaron Paquette (Lightfinder, Kegedonce Press) becomes Edmonton’s first Indigenous councillor in decades.~ Beloved songwriter and author Gord Downie dies at 53. RIP, Gord. ~ Virginia Woolf disliked Ulysses plus more famous writers on books they hated via LitHub.(Photo credit: Scott Gardner)                                     

What Else We’re Reading

Christen just picked up Canisia Lubrin’s debut poetry collection Voodoo Hypothesis (Wolsak & Wynn).