Category: Stop! Look! Listen!

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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

An album cover for a collection of five Joan Armatraging albums

Stop! Look! Listen! Mary Trafford’s Listening Recommendation

Posted on April 29, 2025

I believe in love at first sight. After all, I fell in love with my partner the second I saw her, and we’ve been together for almost four decades. I also believe in love at first listen. That’s how I felt about Joan Armatrading the first time I heard her magical blend of singing and songwriting, way back in the mid-1970s – pure, blissful love.

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?

The album cover for Lori Yates' "Matador"

Stop! Look! Listen! Margaret Watson's Listening Recommendation

Posted on March 27, 2025

If you haven’t discovered Matador yet, then it’s time. Lori Yates is an artist (singer and songwriter) who hales from Oshawa-Toronto-Nashville-Hamilton and recently Toronto again. According to her website, she is a “pioneer of Alternative-Country.” And Matador, her much-anticipated new release, is replete with songs reflecting on a life of experiences -- love, friendship, struggle, survival and mortality.

Stop! Look! Listen! Jane C. Miller's Listening Recommendation

Posted on March 27, 2025

I am drawn to music with lyrics in languages I don’t understand, which allows me to hear, unmediated by meaning, the emotional synthesis and counterpoint of sound. Two of my favorites are Trio Mediaeval from Norway, and Mariza from Portugal. Isn’t our work as writers similar? We choose our words, not just for meaning, but for what their sounds make us feel.