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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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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...
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November 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Shani Mootoo / @bookhugpress.bsky.social ;
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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...
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November 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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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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November 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Chapbook reviews.
Three fantastic poetry books from ANSTRUTHER BOOKS @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

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November 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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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.
November 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Sunday November 23
6:00pm ET
A virtual reading and conversation with Shani Mootoo, author of STARRY STARRY NIGHT from @bookhugpress.bsky.social

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Junction Reads with Shani Mootoo
Join us for a virtual reading and conversation with Shani Mootoo, author of STARRY STARRY NIGHT.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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@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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Worldly Girls – Tamara Jong
This narrative unmooring, while unconventional, strikes me as a byproduct of Jong’s departure from high-control religion
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November 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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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...
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 ...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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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!
November 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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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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The Last of Its Kind by Sibylle Grimbert, translated by Aleshia Jensen
Reviewed by Lisa Timpf
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November 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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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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women & roosters: The Playlist | Book*hug Press
women & roosters: The Playlist
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November 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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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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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...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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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...
A Fast Horse Never Brings Good News by Cary Fagan
Reviewed by Michael Greenstein
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November 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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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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What We're Reading: Staff Writers' Picks, Fall and Future — Hamilton Review of Books
November 10, 2025
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November 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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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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We're here to help you find your giftee’s next favourite book.

Our first #ALUGiftNext recommendations are for the person on your list who savours language as much as plot.

Shop our lit fic recommendations (+ more!) here: alllitup.ca/gift-their-n...
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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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
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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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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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.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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"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-...
Michael V. Smith's Soundtrack
A Lyric Memoir (Book*Hug Press, 2025)
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November 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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"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...
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). 
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November 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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“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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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
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November 4, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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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.
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.
November 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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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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[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.]
November 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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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
November 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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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
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.
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November 3, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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“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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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
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October 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM