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An east to west and north to south look at Canadian books

Gabrielle McLaren June 28, 2018

In school, we had to read Canadian books all the time for English and French class. I’m not going to lie: most of them were bad and made me want to scratch my eyes out. No more of that! CanLit isn’t just cool because Margaret Atwood’s books got on TV: as it turns out, every region of the country has had some cool books to offer all along. Newfoundland A Newfoundlander in Canada: Always Going Somewhere, Always Coming Home by Alan Doyle — Great Big Sea was the soundtrack of my family’s road trips, so my parents bounced on their…

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SFU authors’ spotlight

Courtney Miller and Nuna Siyala June 26, 2018

With Malice by Eileen Cook (an SFU Writer’s Studio mentor) “Who we are is what comes out when shit goes bad.” Without giving away too much, this sentence from Eileen Cook’s With Malice sets the stage for the entire novel.…

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