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Heather O'Neill
10
February
“Although
she sounds sometimes like Holden Caulfield, the spirit of
Leonard Cohen’s ‘Suzanne’ hovers over this Montreal story:
“There are heroes in the seaweed/There are children in the
morning/They are leaning out for love/And they will lean that
way forever.”
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Heather O’Neill’s
first job was selling flowers on a Montreal street corner
with her sisters. Since then she’s published a book of
poems, written a short story that became a movie, and given
thousands of readers a new favourite novel, Lullabies for
Little Criminals (HarperCollins, 2006), winner of Canada
Reads for 2007 and the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. |
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Michael Winter
2
March
“Michael
Winter’s writing blows my mind.”
—Miriam Toews, author of A Complicated Kindness |
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Michael Winter
was born in England, grew up in Corner Brook, learned to
write in St. John’s, and now consents to reside in
Toronto. He is the author of two collections of short
stories and four novels, the most recent of which,
The Death of Donna Whalen, was short-listed for the
Commonwealth Writers Prize. We’re featuring his third
novel, The Architects Are Here (Penguin, 2007),
about best friends on a road trip from Toronto back to
Corner Brook with a stuffed fox, a hitchhiking dog, and
a Taser in the trunk. |
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Michael Lista
16
March
“A debut
poet asserts himself as one of the key figures in
contemporary Canadian poetry. A book that transcends
all of its formal (and controversial) constraints
and unabashed cleverness to become something
brilliant and rare.”
—Open Book |
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Michael
Lista is a Canadian essayist and poet who has
been twice shortlisted for the Pushcart Prize.
We’re reading his first book, Bloom
(Anansi, 2010), poems in the style and sometimes
the words of other poets that tell us, among
other things, how a nuclear physicist from
Winnipeg lived, loved, and died. Michael lives
in Toronto, where he’s poetry editor for the
Walrus. |
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