Somewhere in the gathering dawn beyond the blinds, the first car alarm in March hails the sun. A lone reader…
Author: Ashley Van Elswyk
Robert Lacerte (or “Baloney,” as he’s known in the Montreal literary scene) has been a marginal poet his entire life…
Why Margaret Atwood’s 1972 novel remains an uncannily courageous, weird, and potentially explosive work.
“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…”
Selections from the Lost Library of CanLit graphic novels
Selections from the Lost Library of CanLit graphic novels
“Goose Territory” & “October Moon”
Described as a cross between Room and Olive Kitteridge, Rebecca Rosenblum’s first novel, So Much Love (McClelland & Stewart) focuses on the…
In Nathan Whitlock’s sharply funny second novel, Jeremy is the owner of The Ice Shack, an unassuming neighbourhood restaurant-bar in…