The Chat Posts
The Chat with Buffy Cram
Buffy Cram is back with an extraordinary new novel. Once Upon an Effing Time (Douglas & McIntyre) introduces us to a young girl named Elizabeth Squires …
The Chat with Amy Jones
Amy Jones is back with a spectacular new novel. Pebble & Dove (McClelland & Stewart) follows a bickering mother and daughter as they head to Florida and …
The Chat with Ricardo Tranjan
Housing insecurity and rising rents have become a fixture of Canadian public policy debates in recent years. This week on The Chat, we speak with author …
The Chat with Lucian Childs
Lucian Childs’ Dreaming Home (Biblioasis) superb debut, a novel-in-stories, is a tender and powerful queer coming-of-age that spans forty years and multiple …
The Chat with Wanda John-Kehewin
Visions of the Crow (HighWater Press) is a YA graphic novel that tells the engaging story of Damon Quinn, a teenager who just wants to get through his …
The Chat with Henry Tsang
Artist Henry Tsang has put together a powerful book exploring the 1907 Anti-Asian riots in Vancouver. The essays and photographs featured in White Riot: …
The Chat with Corinna Chong
Weaving in and out of the magic and mystery of everyday lives, Corinna Chong’s new collection The Whole Animal (Arsenal Pulp Press) is a startling and …
Griffin Poetry Prize Roundtable 2023
We had a chance to chat this year with the three Canadians who make an appearance on this year’s Griffin Poetry Prize longlist. Visit our friends at …
The Chat with Kelly S. Thompson
Author Kelly S. Thompson returns with another powerful memoir. Still, I Cannot Save You tells the story of Thompson’s relationship with her older sister, …
The Chat with JD Derbyshire
Author JD Derbyshire has written a powerful and genre-bending debut, a novel Ivan Coyote calls "a book to carry with you forever." Told in recollections, …