“The work of mourning doesn’t count—at least in contemporary North American culture—as “work.” Though, I suggest that grieving actually is some of the hardest work we are consigned to do.”
“Given that I see and experience the world only from the perspective of my own tiny-skull-sized kingdom, reading a novel is the closest I’ve come to feeling the experience of someone else.”
“Mars became a metaphor for the act of writing itself — venturing toward a truth, a compelling intuition, a distant heartbeat…”
Described as a cross between Room and Olive Kitteridge, Rebecca Rosenblum’s first novel, So Much Love (McClelland & Stewart) focuses on the…
Guelph-born, New York-based Jesse Ruddock is the author of Shot-Blue (Coach House Books)
Albert Frank Moritz was born in Niles, Ohio, in 1947 and educated at Marquette University in Wisconsin, where he completed…
Michael Helm’s novel After James (McClelland & Stewart) was published this September to widespread critical acclaim. Ambitious and virtuosic, it’s a…
Marc Bell was asked to design the cover for this year’s Best American Comics anthology. Brad de Roo spoke to him about the process.
Genre has never been an impediment for writer, journalist, humourist, and playwright Drew Hayden Taylor, the “blue-eyed Ojibway” whose almost 30 books include…
Based on a reading of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, André Alexis’ new novel, The Hidden Keys (Coach House Books), is the…