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LISA Moore
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February
“Every
year, there are about a hundred books about exactly the same
thing. And every year there is one like Open that will
knock you flat…. Lisa Moore, Lisa Moore, Lisa Moore. Remember
that name.”
—Vancouver Sun |
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Lisa Moore’s
acclaimed first collection of short stories was reprinted by
House of Anansi after the stunning success of her Giller-nominated
second collection, our featured work Open (Anansi,
2002). Her first novel, Alligator, was also nominated
for the Giller Prize and won a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.
Her most recent novel, February, was long-listed for
the Booker Prize. Lisa Moore was born and now lives again in
St. John’s, Newfoundland. |
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David McGimpsey
11
March
“Sitcom
is poetry as cold fusion, combining elements that, at
first glance, don’t seem to belong together: traditional
poetic form and pop-culture content, literary allusion
and TV, playfulness and seriousness, respect and
irreverence, the lyrical and the deadpan. It’s poetry
that should not work, but does, brilliantly.”
—Montreal Gazette |
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Montrealer David
McGimpsey is the uncrowned poet laureate of North
American popular culture. The author of four books of
poetry—most recently our featured collection Sitcom
(Coach House, 2007)—McGimpsey’s insights into society’s
guilty pleasures have won accolades from reviewers on
both sides of the border. He teaches creative writing
for Concordia, and writes about sandwiches for
EnRoute. |
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Andrew Pyper
18
March
“If Andrew
Pyper scripted our collective nightmares, we’d all
be dreaming and screaming…”
—New York Times Book Reviews |
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Andrew
Pyper published his first book, the short-story
collection Kiss Me, in 1996. He has since
published four best-selling, critically
acclaimed novels: Lost Girls, The
Trade Mission, The Wildfire Season, The
Guardians, and our featured work
The Killing Circle (Doubleday, 2008), a
New York Times Notable Crime Novel about a
would-be writer who plagiarizes a horror story
about a faceless serial killer only to find that
the story is coming true. Pyper lives in
Toronto, where the Killing Circle meets. |
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