Sundays really are meant for books. Invisible Publishing, the Canada Council and the Spring Garden Road Memorial Public Library ensures you gets your fill of authors and their ilk with a special visit from award-winning Canadian poet Dani Couture. Couture will be reading from her first novel, Algoma, at the Spring Garden Road Library on […]
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Cloaca and swagger
Short fiction master Andrew Hood woke up at 5am before a long shift at his former day job at a brewery to start writing stories about a man’s penis turtling inside his body. Quit with your side-eye, he just loves gross stuff, don’t play like you don’t too. In fact, many descriptions of his latest […]
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Don’t forget, Rememberer launches tonight
Tonight is the launch for Invisible Publishing’s Rememberer, at the Allan Street Reading Series. Edited by Jenner Berger, Allan St.’s lovely host, tonight’s reading will include Andrew Hood, Laura Dawe, Geordie Miller, Joshua Tibbetts and Berger. If you can’t make it, be sure to stop by the Invisible table at Saturday’s Zine Fair, where they’ll also have copies of Bats or Swallows, a new collection of stories by Montreal’s Teri Vlassopoulos. Here’s more about the book, written by Sean Flinn for our Fall Arts Preview: Rememberer (Invisible Publishing), combines the convenience of a planner with a collection of short
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Ready or not
The world of books is in transition. It exists somewhere between the bound and the binary. Literary journals and news magazines have relaunched themselves as online-only editions. Apple’s iPad just hit the market, joining other e-readers such as Amazon’s Kindle and Indigo’s Kobo. There’s plenty to discuss. At the upcoming BookCamp Halifax, a free day […]
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Anna Quon book launch tonight
After a mini-tour of Toronto and Kingston, Halifax writer Anna Quon finally gets a hometown reception with launch of her debut novel Migration Songs, tonight, Tuesday, November 3, 6-8pm at The Company House. Quon began writing the book back in 2006, gathering feedback and encouragement during a summer literary program in Russia. She then put […]
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Book Launch: take a trip with Mike Holmes
Before Coast cartoonist Mike Holmes started turning all your stories into comic gold, he drew his own true story, This American Drive. The serial comic about Holmes’ road trip with his now ex-girlfriend Jodi first appeared in The Coast in 2007 and is now available in graphic novel form, through Invisible Publishing. The Halifax book […]
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Invisible Publishing takes Toronto
This past week local publishers Invisible Publishing took their act on the road, with a mini book tour of Anna Quon‘s Migration Songs and our very own Mike Holmes’ This American Drive. I caught up with the crew at Quon’s launch at the Toronto Women’s Bookstore. Sadly I missed Holmes’ party, which sounded like a […]