Is one word enough? -> Meet Min-joo

In the first of a three-part blog series, Christina Park, author of “The Homes We Build On Ashes” (Fall 2015), introduces us to her book, its themes, and her characters; namely the history of “comfort women” – Meet Min-joo.Outside the...

Independent Bookstore Day: Renaissance Bookstore

Nasreen Pejvack, author of “Amity” (fall 2015) writes about one of her favourite local bookstores and the importance of independent booksellers.Since I was a little girl, I had always wanted to read anything I could get my hands on.  Where I was born...

Off My Feed

Huey Helene Alcaro, author of “In the Land of Two-Legged Women,” writes about writing, the human condition, and literary fiction.Fiction is like food. I usually gobble it up. But I haven’t been writing it, and am often bored with reading...

The Good Bad Book

S. Noël McKay, author of “Stony Point” discusses good/bad books and literature.“A type of book which we hardly seem to produce in these days… is what Chesterton called ‘the good bad book’: that is, the kind of book that has no...