The book that Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison has called "required reading" appears at an auspicious time for race relations in the U.S. Between the World and Me, the sophomore release from Ta-Nehisi Coates, national ... Read More »
Summer is vacation season for most people – a time to slow down, get away, and relax. Conventional wisdom has it that what is good for the body and soul is also good for the ... Read More »
July 27, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture
In the annals of censorship, Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel American Psycho holds a special place of honour. Ever since its release, the book has been the subject of controversy and repeated attempts to have ... Read More »
July 23, 2015 | Filed under: Bookselling
"Tolerating the old – and in the minors, anyone over twenty-five is old – was a special agony.” So wrote Canadian author Clark Blaise in his 1979 novel Lunar Attractions. Blaise was talking about the ... Read More »
July 20, 2015
Two sides of George Bowering One of Canada’s key postmodernists, co-founder of the influential literary journal TISH, Canada’s inaugural Parliamentary Poet Laureate, Governor General’s Literary Award winner, novelist, critic, historian, editor: there is very little ... Read More »
July 20, 2015 | Filed under: Preview
It’s about as easy and literal a design decision as it gets,” says legendary designer and typesetter Robert Bringhurst about the covers of Brick Books’ 40th anniversary Classics series. The line features a half-dozen of ... Read More »
July 6, 2015
Dave Godfrey, who died of pancreatic cancer earlier this week, embodied a series of contradictions. He was a staunch cultural nationalist who set his best-known work of fiction in Africa; an author who prized linguistic ... Read More »
Dave Godfrey was many things: an author and publisher who was at the forefront of the CanLit explosion in the 1960s and ’70s, a teacher, a software developer, and a vintner. He was also a ... Read More »
"My wife has said about me that I'm the only person she knows who would take a history of the guillotine to the beach." American novelist and short story writer Jim Shepard's choice of beach ... Read More »
May 28, 2015 | Filed under: Authors
For publishers and writers on the Prairies, opportunities have never been more plentiful. But a persistent inability to catch the attention of media east of Manitoba continues to pose a problem In the history ... Read More »
May 20, 2015
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