Recommended Read of the Month: Best Kind, Edited by Rob Finlay
Last year in The New Yorker, Jia Tolentino wrote that the heyday of the personal essay is over....
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Category: Books
Recommended Read of the Month: Bridget Canning’s What’s Written in the Ladies
Like the graffiti it celebrates, What’s Written in the Ladies’ is nonconformist – it flouts cultural expectations and exists as far outside capitalist modes of production as possible.
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Recommended Read of the Month: Elisabeth de Mariaffi’s Hysteria
Part domestic thriller, part revenge narrative, Elisabeth de Mariaffi’s Hysteria is a deadly...
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5 Locals Up for Atlantic Book Awards
This year, as with last year, 5 locals are up for various awards, including an Overcast contributor (this year; Eva Crocker)
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Book on Fire: Hynes Credits Arts Funding for His New Book’s Wave of Award Recognition
There was nothing wrong with this book. That sounds like unenthused praise on the surface, but read the sentence again: there was nothing wrong with this novel. It did everything right.
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March’s Recommended Read of the Month: The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes
Mass shootings. Internet memes. Online stalkers. Twitter wars. This book has a finger on the pulse, and a skewer through our zeitgeist.
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3 for the Money: Check Out This Year’s Winterset Award Shortlist
The BMO Winterset Award is the province’s richest prize for a book of any genre by a Newfoundlander.
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Catching Up on Caught: Allan Hawco on Bringing Lisa Moore’s Novel to Life on the Screen
Episode 1 of Caught premieres Feb. 26th on CBC TV.
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February’s Recommended Read of the Month: Boat People by Sharon Bala
It’s time to hop aboard the Sharon Bala Buzztrain.
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January’s Recommended Read: The Democracy Cookbook
The Democracy Cookbook is a collection of short and snappy opinion pieces from 89 prominent...
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Recommended Read of the Month: Lost in September By Kathleen Winter
History remembers some people, but typically just for one thing. In Kathleen Winter’s funny, new, and strikingly innovative novel, Lost in September, she turns this train of thought to a real life figure, James Wolfe.
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Best of NL 2017: The Arts
The results are in …
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