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Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2012
Here are the books we've all been waiting for. The very latest in fiction, poetry, and non-fiction for the discerning Canadian reader.
Beyond Borders: Linda Holeman on Travel and Writing
"Writing, just like real travel, requires patience and energy and perseverance and the ability to accept whatever unexpected events occur and, at times, …
Aga Maksimowska on a Child's Perspective of Revolution and Building Character
Aga Maksimowska's protagonist is an eleven-year-old "giant" facing upheaval in Poland, and in her own body.
Gillian Wigmore: Writing into the Western Canadian Canon
"At this point in the western Canadian canon I’m writing alongside friends who have me galloping to keep up, and, quite honestly, there is nowhere else …
Aga Maksimowska: The Weird and Wonderful World of Kid Narrators
Why not spend the hot and sticky months of July and August with some of CanLit’s most outrageous, funny, and perceptive kid narrators?
Amy Lavender Harris on Reading Local: The Map to Who We Are
"Reading local literature is a way of opening ourselves to new ways of perceiving the familiar, and therefore of accommodating the unknown."
Vancouver Cop/Novelist Sean Slater on the Scariest Stuff He's Seen
Give me the option of facing a hit-man with a sniper rifle versus the possible diagnosis of a mental illness disorder, and I will take the assassin every …
Melanie Schnell on Volunteering During The Second Sudanese Civil War
In 2002, Melanie Schnell joined an aid organization in South Sudan, where she researched her debut novel.
Kateri Lanthier on The Magpie Reader: Reading for the Shiny Bits
"Every time I open a favourite book, I’m reminded of verbal fireworks I’d like to rival."
The Best Book Trailers We've Seen Lately
We love Katrina Onstad's list Books With a Sense of Place, and her new novel Everybody Has Everything has a place of its own: Toronto. The city is evoked …