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As I waited for my name to come up on the Guelph Public Library’s long list of holds for Omar El Akkad’s book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, I turned to his beautifully written second novel
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Erica Berry's Wolfish and Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson goes together like good wine and sharp cheese.
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As I dip my toes into learning Mandarin, I’ve come to realize just how difficult and valuable the art of translation is. Especially when it comes to the linguistic metamorphosis of converting a character-based language into an alphabetical one.
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Ancestral-Wing by Sneha Subramanian Kanta is a collection of poems that provides elegiac pathways to Kanta’s encounters with grief, memory, loss, and family. Her poems fill me with lament and longing for lost lineages and introduce me to parts of myself that I’ve either disconnected with or forgotten.
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A book I have become obsessed with is Denison Avenue, a short novel by Christina Wong, illustrated by Daniel Innes. The format itself is groundbreaking, as one side of the book is the novel in text, and the other side of the book is inked artwork retelling the novel’s story.
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One of my favorite reads of the year thus far has been Kala by Colin Walsh. This is a mystery/thriller set in Ireland. This book is full of vivid descriptions that transport the reader to the heart of the novel.
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After hearing me do a reading as a newly-minted "emerging writer" (whatever the hell that means), a famous poet approached me and said that I reminded them of June Jordan, Diane Seuss, and Wanda Coleman. Check! Check! Wanda, who?
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On a recent four-hour train ride across France, I pulled Leila Chatti’s debut poetry collection, Deluge (Coppe
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I recently picked up Bren Simmers’ newest book The Work (Gaspereau Press, 2024).
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One book that I return to again and again is Sunflower, by Gyula Krúdy, a Hungarian of the late-Empire, reprobate and dandy, dreamer and drunk. I read this book whenever I need inspiration in my own writing.
