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Short Story Playlist as Selected by a Crack Team
May is Short Story Month. Get ready for great picks by Janine Alyson Young, Eliza Robertson, and John Gould.
R.J. Harlick: Crime Novels Across the Country
Novelist and Crime Writers of Canada President, R.J. Harlick, offers a coast-to-coast perspective on the Canadian crime writing scene.
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's Red Letter Day
In today's Red Letter Day, Katheryn Kuitenbrouer imagines a day of reading, laughing, and staring into space.
Shelf Talkers for May 2014
Every hour of every day in bookstores across this fine land, booksellers are handing their fellow readers new books with the simple, trusted entreaty: …
Hilary Davidson and the One-Book Stand
Hilary Davidson on her first stand-alone novel, Blood Always Tells.
Top Shelf: Best of Julie Booker's Notes From a Children's Librarian
For quite some time, Ms. Julie Booker, children's librarian and author of the critically acclaimed Up Up Up, has been knocking out incredible posts for …
Eliza Robertson's Red Letter Day
Today it's Eliza Robertson's Red Letter Day. The Journey-Prize-nominated author has a new short story collection coming out soon, Wallflowers, and has …
Karen Hofmann: Barefoot Girls and Wild Women
Canadian books with female characters who break the rules, ignore decorum, sin, err, shoot at people, take off their shoes in public, love who they shouldn’t, …
Kate Pullinger on Landing Gear
The Governor-General's Award-winning author talks about her latest novel.
Mystery Month: Sarah Weinman on "CanCrime"
Critic Sarah Weinman on domestic suspense, its Canadian connections, Canadian crime fiction as a genre, and new books in 2014.