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The cover image of Deluge which features the author's name, Leila Chatti, in black with the title in red next to it at the top of the cover image and below that is a person standing with a sheet over them.

Stop! Look! Listen! Alice White's Reading Recommendation

Posted on June 25, 2025

On a recent four-hour train ride across France, I pulled Leila Chatti’s debut poetry collection, Deluge (Coppe

Stop! Look! Listen! Lynn Easton's Reading Recommendation

Posted on June 10, 2025

I recently picked up Bren Simmers’ newest book The Work (Gaspereau Press, 2024).

Stop! Look! Listen! Kirsti Mikoda's Reading Recomendation

Posted on June 5, 2025

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.

The cover of Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute

Stop! Look! Listen! Dan Crosby's Reading Recommendation

Posted on May 27, 2025

Although not as well known as On The Beach or A Town Like Alice, and though published 65 years ago, Nevil Shute's modest masterpiece with the unassuming title, Trustee From the Toolroom, is very much a novel for our times, telling the story of a seemingly boring everyman who risks his life to travel to the other side of the world in order to assure an inheritance for his orphaned neice

A cover of Persuasion by Jane Austen which features an illustration of a woman in a red dress looking over an ocean with a telescope.

Stop! Look! Listen! Katherine Koller's Reading Recommendation

Posted on May 20, 2025

Reading Jane Austen on her Semiquincentennial Birthday

The cover of The Old Man and The Sea which features an old man in a red boat with a white wave cresting over him in the shape of a fish's tail against a red sky.

Stop! Look! Listen! Kevin Andrew Heslop's Reading Recommendation

Posted on May 13, 2025

—Which, pugnacious drunkard, of course. And happened to write a fable of—First, let’s recall the plot: man catches fish sharks eat. Second—I’m already bored of—The endeavour for its own sake—a touchstone—rebuking critics as he the writer the sun of whose legend was also setting already. And then of course there is the matter of style.

The cover The Widow’s Crayon Box by Molly Peacock which features the title, the word "poems," and the author's name in white surrounded by black blobs surrounded by colourful crayon scribbles.

Stop! Look! Listen! Emily Osborne's Reading Recommendation

Posted on May 6, 2025

The Widow’s Crayon Box, by Molly Peacock

The cover of Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti

Stop! Look! Listen! Rachel Shabalin's Reading Recommendation

Posted on April 22, 2025

Sheila Heit's Alphabetical Diaries is a book that exists in the past, present, and future simultaneously. Maybe a book that represents a futuristic version of reading?

Stop! Look! Listen! Yolande House's Reading Recommendation

Posted on March 26, 2025

Every Cripple a Superhero by Christoph Keller is a great example of a hybrid memoir. There are photos, poems, flash prose, cultural criticism, and a Kafka-esque surrealist short story interspersed throughout the book. An earlier and slightly different version of the manuscript was first published in German in 2020.

Stop! Look! Listen! Madeleine van Goudoever's Reading Recommendation

Posted on March 18, 2025

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I moved to Kelowna three years ago. I was coming from the rainforest. The Okanagan landscape seemed parched and barren. I was suspicious of the constant sunshine. I mourned the loss of my velvet forests full of ancient red cedars and Douglas firs, and set about trying to find a way to love this new land.