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Reckless: The Playlist | Book*hug Press Reckless: The Playlist is here!  Andrea MacPherson has curated a playlist of songs that inspired the writing of her poetry collection Reckless. We hope you enjoy! Find the full Spotify playlist here...

Reckless: The Playlist is here!

Andrea MacPherson has curated a playlist of songs that inspired the writing of her brand new poetry collection Reckless. 🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵

Find the full playlist on the Book*hug blog here:
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Shani Mootoo Shani Mootoo’s novels include Starry Starry Night , Polar Vortex , and Cereus Blooms at Night . A four-time nominee for the Giller Prize, h...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Shani Mootoo / @bookhugpress.bsky.social ;
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“Reading Worldly Girls was something I really needed right now, and I’m grateful.” @junctionreads.bsky.social reviews @bokchoygurltjong.bsky.social 's debut memoir:
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Chapbook reviews.
Three fantastic poetry books from ANSTRUTHER BOOKS @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

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i love books so much. grateful to @bookhugpress.bsky.social who is sending me copies of Olga Ravn,.the Wax Child & the Employees. i can't wait to dive in. thanks to @davidnaimon.bsky.social for another intro to a fascinating writer.

Junction Reads with Shani Mootoo Join us for a virtual reading and conversation with Shani Mootoo, author of STARRY STARRY NIGHT.

Sunday November 23
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A virtual reading and conversation with Shani Mootoo, author of STARRY STARRY NIGHT from @bookhugpress.bsky.social

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Worldly Girls – Tamara Jong This narrative unmooring, while unconventional, strikes me as a byproduct of Jong’s departure from high-control religion

@bokchoygurltjong.bsky.social’s memoir WORLDLY GIRLS offers readers a tender journey through intergenerational trauma, female relationships, and the narrative unmooring that comes after leaving high-control religion. Read my review here! @bookhugpress.bsky.social
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What We Carry: Fall 2025 · Blog Post · 49th Shelf What We Carry is a book list by managing editor, Justine Abigail Yu, tracing stories of migration, movement, and ancestral memory from authors who write ...

Starry Starry Night by Shani Mootoo "is a masterpiece and one that will stay with me for a long, long time. Exquisite. Unforgettable,” writes Justine Abigail Yu of @49thshelf.bsky.social in What We Carry, a list tracing stories of migration, movement & ancestral memory. 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/11...

Worldly Girls by @bokchoygurltjong.bsky.social "contains stand-alone essays that feel like fragments of a whole, a puzzle you only to realize is incomplete when you discover the missing pieces, what has been dropped, lost, or perhaps never packed into the box.” Thank you @junctionreads.bsky.social!

The Last of Its Kind by Sibylle Grimbert, translated by Aleshia Jensen Reviewed by Lisa Timpf

The Last of Its Kind by Sibylle Grimbert, translated from French by Aleshia Jensen, "offers a timely and poignant reminder that what seems to be unthinkable may in fact be all too real," writes Lisa Timpf in a review the Seaboard Review of Books.
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women & roosters: The Playlist | Book*hug Press women & roosters: The Playlist

women & roosters: The Playlist is here!

Fenn Stewart has curated a playlist of songs that inspired the writing of her brand new poetry collection women & roosters. 🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵

Find the full Spotify playlist on the Book*hug Blog below! 🎉

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Thank you to Cary Fagan and Alissa York for sharing these warm words of endorsement of The Last of Its Kind.
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The Last of Its Kind by Sibylle Grimbert, translated by Aleshia Jensen | Book*hug Press From award–winning French writer Sibylle Grimbert comes The Last of Its Kind, a moving story of friendship, trust, respect, and the desire to endure and survive. In 1835, Gus, a young zoologist, is se...

Happy Publication Day to The Last of Its Kind by award-winning French author Sibylle Grimbert, translated by Aleshia Jensen. This moving & poignant work of historical literary fiction is a tender story of friendship, trust, respect, & the desire to endure and survive.
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A Fast Horse Never Brings Good News by Cary Fagan Reviewed by Michael Greenstein

The five stories in Cary Fagan's A Fast Horse Never Brings Good News "bring much good news in their pacing, good humour, & slides into magic realism, each story gaining in length as the book progresses," writes Michael Greenstein for Seaboard Review of Books. www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/a-fast-hor...

What We're Reading: Staff Writers' Picks, Fall and Future — Hamilton Review of Books November 10, 2025

The Hamilton Review of Books' Staff Writers’ Picks for Fall 2025 and beyond includes an exciting roundup of poignant and engaging titles, including Starry Starry Night by Shani Mootoo.

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The booksperts at @alllitupcanada.bsky.social have carefully curated book recos for the Lit Fic crowd, including Starry Starry Night by the inimitable Shani Mootoo.

Receive 10% off + FREE shipping on this and other recommended books with promo code GIFTNEXT10:
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middle daughter at the dentist, so an opportunity to go through new poetry titles by MC Hyland and Fenn Stewart, // @bookhugpress.bsky.social

Authors @ Acadia - English Each year the Department of English and Theatre hosts a series of readings and presentations by authors from across the region and around the world. These events are open to the public and are an important source of cultural enrichment for student, faculty, and Wolfville community members alike.

hey! did you know that Christine McNair is reading at Acadia U on Thursday? if yr nearby, you should go to that, / @christinemcnair.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social ;
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Michael V. Smith's Soundtrack A Lyric Memoir (Book*Hug Press, 2025)

"Smith has written a smart and sexy book, full of joy and humour and history and resistance and music.” @amandaearl.bsky.social reviews Soundtrack: A Lyric Memoir by @michaelvsmith.bsky.social. amandaearl.substack.com/p/michael-v-...

Poetry: a Self-ish List of Threads and Connections · Blog Post · 49th Shelf A recommended reading list by the author of women and roosters (Book Hug Press). 

"I don’t know all these poets...some of them I know well—some of them I’ve known well into the past century...don’t let that stop you from loving their work—I never do." Check out these reading recos from women & roosters author Fenn Stewart for @49thshelf.bsky.social. 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/09...

Brett Josef Grubisic reviews Soundtrack: A Lyric Memoir, by Michael V. Brett Josef Grubisic reviews Soundtrack: A Lyric Memoir, by Michael V. Smith (Toronto: Book*hug, 2025) $24.95 / 9781771669498

“In Soundtrack, there’s music, music everywhere at the point where these two unequal forces interact.” Brett Josef Grubisic on Michael V. Smith's lyric memoir for The BC Review.
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Graphic of what indie books Canadian's borrowed in October 2025. The top 10 books are represented by their covers, followed by a list of books 11 - 50.

With the help of BookNet Canada's #librarydata, here're the 50 books from indie lit publishers Canadians borrowed most in October 2025. Feat. a top 10 from: @coachhousebooks.bsky.social, @ecwpress.bsky.social, @arsenalpulp.bsky.social, and @cormorantbooks.bsky.social.

[I have been hand-selling Shani Mootoo's books since Cereus Blooms at Night in 1996. Starry Starry Night is an absolute delight. Shani is a masterful writer, and through her main character, the young Anju Ghoshal, she explores the myriad complexities of family, colonial history, class and politics in Trinidad.]

Starry, Starry Night is a nuanced autofiction from acclaimed writer Shani Mootoo exploring gender, race, and class. Read more from book expert and seller Angula Gogia from Another Story Bookshop about why she thinks more Canadians need to get their hands on this one.

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breakfast pilgrimage, thy name is Future Bistro (with a stack of comics + Fenn Stewart’s new poetry title from Book*hug, @bookhugpress.bsky.social (a brief respite between small press fairs, before Meet the Presses today from noon to 5pm, @meetthepresses.bsky.social

On Our Radar: Bittersweet Nostalgia, Time Travel, 1960s' Trinidad, Willow Witches, and More! · Blog Post · 49th Shelf Every month, our editor enthuses about the books piling up on her mind and on her nightstand.

What's on our reading radar this month? Bittersweet Nostalgia, Time Travel, 1960s' Trinidad, Willow Witches, and More with titles from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/10... #CanLit

Selena Mercuri reviews. Starry Starry Night, by Shani Mootoo Selena Mercuri reviews. Starry Starry Night, by Shani Mootoo (Toronto: Book*hug Press, 2025) $24.95 / 9781771669566

“The title’s invocation of Van Gogh’s painting proves apt. Like the artist’s swirling night sky, Mootoo’s prose contains turbulence within careful composition.”
Selena Mercuri reviews Shani Mootoo's Starry Starry Night for the BC Review.
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‘women & roosters’: A Poetry Launch with Fenn Stewart | Upstart & Crow Join us for an evening celebrating the launch of Fenn Stewart’s new work of poetry, women and roosters, published by the incredible indie press, Book*hug. Stewart will be joined in reading by ...read ...

Upstart & Crow present the Vancouver launch of women & roosters by Feb Stewart. With special guests Laura Morales Padilla and Afuwa.

Sunday, November 2, 2025
6:00-7:30 pm PT
1387 Railspur Alley, Granville Island
Free to attend!

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Thank you to Asher Ghaffar and River Halen for sharing these generous endorsement blurbs for women and roosters by Fenn Stewart, which is out now.

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Happy Publication Day to women and roosters by Fenn Stewart, a forthright and deeply emotional semi-autobiographical long poem that will linger with readers long after its final, vibrant page.

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