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Kevin Chong, interviewed
by Brad de Roo
by Brad de Roo
Kevin Chong’s Vancouver-set, Camus-inspired novel uses dark humour to tap into present-day cultural anxieties.
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Elaine Dewar, interviewed
by Brad de Roo
by Brad de Roo
Journalist Elaine Dewar’s The Handover looks at the truth behind the sale of M&S, Canada’s best independent publisher, to foreign multinational Random House.
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Linda Spalding, interviewed
by Brad de Roo
by Brad de Roo
Linda Spalding’s “A Reckoning” follows the fortunes of a slave-owning family in 1850s Virginia after a visit from a Canadian abolitionist on the eve of the Civil War.
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Tanya Talaga, interviewed
by Brad de Roo
by Brad de Roo
Journalist Tanya Talaga’s new book probes the deaths of seven Indigenous high-school students in the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario.
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Alison Pick, interviewed
by Brad de Roo
by Brad de Roo
A planned utopia stumbles up against human nature in Alison Pick’s third novel about the founding of the kibbutz movement in 1920s Palestine.
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Julia Cooper interviewed
by Brad de Roo
by Brad de Roo
“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.”
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Claire Cameron interviewed
by Brad de Roo
by Brad de Roo
“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.”
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Lori McNulty interviewed
by Brad de Roo
by Brad de Roo
“Mars became a metaphor for the act of writing itself — venturing toward a truth, a compelling intuition, a distant heartbeat…”
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Rebecca Rosenblum interviewed
by Brad de Roo
by Brad de Roo
Described as a cross between Room and Olive Kitteridge, Rebecca Rosenblum’s first novel, So Much Love (McClelland & Stewart) focuses on the…