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New Read Local Summer Theme: The Great Outdoors
Are you bristling in your desk chair right now just itching to get outside and start enjoying Canada’s awesome summer pastimes? We can think of a few …
Samuel Martin: If the Writer Builds a Fire, the Reader Will Come to Watch You Burn
Samuel Martin on setting his writer's imagination on fire.
Katrina Onstad: Books with a Sense of Place
"I love a book in which setting anchors the story with atmosphere and meaning"
Dennis Lee's Groundbreaking Alligator Pie is Reborn
HarperCollins Canada to reissue Lee's entire backlist.
The Griffin Poetry Prize Goes West in a Livestreamed Broadcast to Vancouver Poetry-Lovers
Sean Cranbury is bringing The Griffin Poetry Prize to Vancouver, and sending some west coast poets back in return.
Read Local: Pin a Book, Enter to Win a Kindle
And now, when you pin a book on the map, you get an automatic chance to win a Kindle Touch 3G with a $50 Kindle Store gift card to use toward ebooks.
Gillian Deacon on the Hazardous Toxins We're Slathering onto Our Bodies and Our Children's
Gillian Deacon was researching toxins in personal care products when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. The book took on a whole new meaning.
Bad Jobs in CanLit: A List by Grace O'Connell
It's been suggested recently that there are no bad jobs. Novelist Grace O'Connell begs to differ.
Read Local Is All Mapped Up
And…we’re live! Come hit the Read Local Map and help us build the biggest map of Canadian books ever created!
Behind the Poem: "Abandoned Car" by Mark Lavorato
"Finding something abandoned inspires the part of us that wants to know the story, that wonders, hypothesises, and in turn, formulates an odd form of …