An evening with Scaachi Koul Sunday, October 29, 7pm Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library, 5440 Spring Garden Road $20 “It was funny and sad.” That’s how Scaachi Koul’s mother reacted after reading Koul’s book, One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter. Although short, it’s an accurate review. In this […]
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Book review: Joey Comeau, Malagash
Sunday’s father is dying of cancer and he wants to go back to his hometown of Malagash to die. The kids, Sunday and her little brother Simon, are school-aged, and so the whole family packs up for the north shore of Nova Scotia. It’s like summer vacation with the wonder of bucolic nature, except it’s […]
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Review: Bad Things Happen, Kris Bertin
Kris Bertin is the Dalí of despair. And that’s a good thing. In his debut collection Bad Things Happen, Bertin writes about the abyssopelagic darkness in which his characters meander with an inexplicable warmth. Agony and anguish are treated with clever prose and the reader oscillates between empathy and the thrill of voyeurism. In “Girl […]
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Andre Fenton on how to beat writer’s block
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Review: A Bird on Every Tree, Carol Bruneau
Carol Bruneau’s collection of short stories A Bird on Every Tree gloriously explores the complex relationship people have with the place they call home. Through the lens of teenage angst, many of us see ourselves having a great big-city life and never returning home. However, tragedy, heartbreak or failure sometimes has us return to the […]
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Save the date: Scaachi Koul is coming to Halifax
An evening with Scaachi Koul Sunday, Oct 29, 7:30pm (doors open at 7pm) Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library $20 You may have heard of Scaachi Koul. The BuzzFeed senior writer, unapologetic tweeter and recent author has garnered fans (and her fair share of haters, too) over the past few years. Through it all, she’s […]
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Take a pause and open up The Pregnant Pause
The Pregnant Pause book launch Sat. June 24, 9:30am-12:30pm The Halifax Central Library Jane Doucet had read plenty of books in which a female protagonist ended up having a baby and living happily ever after. Instead, she wanted to read “a book that united married women who were considering motherhood.” “It’s a serious topic with […]
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Atlantic Book Awards’ reading week
Atlantic Book Awards Festival May 11-19 atlanticbookawards.ca The eighth annual Atlantic Book Awards Festival draws attention to Atlantic Canadian writing, which can be “overwhelmed by the huge amount of books coming out of Ontario and Quebec,” says Heather MacKenzie, president of the Atlantic Book Awards Society. “The wealth of talent that’s coming out of this […]
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Read an excerpt from Just Jen
Just Jen book launch Wednesday, May 3 Halifax Central Library, Paul O’Regan Hall 7pm Jen Powley was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at fifteen. By thirty-five, she had lost the use of her arms and legs. With Just Jen, Powley produces a powerful memoir of what happens after diagnosis, and how a person’s life can change. […]
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2017 East Coast Literary Award nominations revealed
The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia announced its shortlist for the 2017 East Coast Literary Awards last Wednesday. This year, a record 79 Atlantic Canadian titles were submitted to a peer jury of professional writers. The jury whittled down the list to a selection of three nominees in each category: fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Eight […]
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Angst for the memories
Andre Fenton is selling his self-published book of poems, Ode to Teen Angst, as fast as he can print them. “I always joke around about selling this book like a mixtape, it’s not really in stores yet, so I just carry it with me,” he says. Fenton sells copies from his bag to people who […]
