National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 2024
September 30th is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in so-called-Canada.
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I’m Buying a New Brunswick Book Day: Editors’ Picks
Today, September 21, 2024, is the fifth annual I’m Buying a New Brunswick Book Day, coordinated by the Frye Festival.
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.
Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #35 — Friends of TMR Fall Releases!
Featuring Bill Arnott, Hollay Ghadery, Lucy Black, and Wayne Ng
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.
Girl Takes Drastic Step!: How Molly Lamb Bobak Became Canada’s First Official Woman War Artist, written by Jillian Dobson and illustrated by Genevieve Simms
When Molly Lamb Bobak enlisted in the Canadian Women’s Army Corps (CWAC), in November of 1942, she had become part of the nascent women’s divisions in the Canadian military. In WWI and at the beginning of WWII, women serving in the military were limited to positions as nurses, but in the summer of 1941 that all changed; the three branches of the Canadian military each created a women’s division in which women were trained for non-combatant roles, including clerical and administrative services, food services, and trades work. Molly joined more than 50,000 Canadian women, serving at home and abroad in order to help turn the tide of war.
Excerpt: A Perfect Day for a Walk: The History, Cultures, and Communities of Vancouver, on Foot
Excerpted with permission from Arsenal Pulp Press
Girls, Interrupted by Lisa Whittington-Hill
Until I read these essays, I hadn’t taken note of the ways that men and women are treated and portrayed differently in the media.
Always Pack a Pen: An Interview with Marion McKinnon Crook
“I will never stop writing,” says Marion McKinnon Crook after thirty books to her credit.
Indigiqueerness: A Conversation About Storytelling by Joshua Whitehead, in dialogue with Angie Abdou
Indigiqueerness is a lean, skinny book full of meat. At just under 100 pages, it is a comprehensive dive into who is Joshua Whitehead. And, through this vessel, what makes a storyteller?
Why I Wrote This Book Issue #31
Featuring Cathy Stonehouse, Sofia Mostaghimi, Darrow Woods, and Suzanne Casey.
Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism: Class, Class Consciousness and Activism in the “Knowledge Economy” by D.W. Livingstone
What is really fascinating about class in North America is the way we like to act like we don’t have any — or if we do, we all trend to the middle.
A Gentleman and a Thief by Dean Jobb
In A Gentleman and a Thief, history is its own character instead of simply a time or era. Jobb frames his look at history with the fast paced, clever and elusive tale of Arthur Barry, a dapper kind of thief.
Throwback: Earthkeeping by Gary Saunders
Part poet, philosopher, scientist, and artist – Gary brings to mind the acronym STEAM.. when academia finally realized the importance of art to the scientific realm. He is definitely science and art in a wonderful blend.
At a Loss for Words: Conversations in an Age of Rage by Carol Off
In a compelling and succinct introduction, Off argues that in the current context, we are witness to no less than the devolution of democracy in favour of the rise of populism and demagoguery, and sets out to prove that the deliberate weaponization of language is contributing to a blurred understanding of civil society.
