Excerpt: I Never Said That I Was Brave by Tasneem Jamal
Excerpted with Permission from House of Anansi Press
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Playground by Richard Powers
I had already committed to review Playground by Richard Powers for The Miramichi Reader when it was announced that Playground was long-listed for the 2024 Booker Prize.
Busy Secret by Micah Ballard
Micah Ballard’s latest chapbook Busy Secret is a quippy, somewhat resigned meditation on the liminal spaces between life and death, and wealth and work.
Secrets in the Water by Alice Fitzpatrick
The premise is delicious. Have a chance to WIN a copy of Secrets in the Water on our Patreon
Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class by Sarah Smarsh
Smarsh’s August 9, 2024, essay on Walz easily could have found a home in Bone of the Bone, her new collection of journalism and other non-fiction writings (2013-24). These pieces extend the narrative of Smarsh’s 2018 memoir, Heartland, a survey of her Kansas-born life into poverty, the generations who preceded her, and a finalist for the National Book Award.
The View from Errisbeg by Sheila Graham-Smith
There is something wonderful about a book that feels comfortable — not that it doesn’t challenge a reader, but it feels comfortable.
May Our Joy Endure by Kevin Lambert translated by Donald Winkler
Playing satirist, tragedian, humorist, and social historian, Lambert produces a unique book that contains a complete world.
Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #35 — Friends of TMR Fall Releases!
Featuring Bill Arnott, Hollay Ghadery, Lucy Black, and Wayne Ng
All Hookers Go To Heaven by Angel B.H.
In pondering what to write about All Hookers Go To Heaven by Angel B.H., I kept coming back to the idea of joy.
Death and Other Inconveniences by Lesley Crewe
Margo and Dick were together for ten years, and she had no idea she would be facing widowhood at the “tender age of sixty-two”.
A Perfect Day for a Walk by Bill Arnott
When I arrived, a tourist in Vancouver twenty years ago, it was apparent almost immediately how incredibly walkable the city is.
Hair for Men by Michelle Winters
A dark, comic, strangely endearing novel, Hair for Men by Michelle Winters is a bizarrely endearing novel, despite its heavy storyline.
