On a different note, big kids and #teens too have a #BookBirthday to celebrate! from @bluedotkidspress.bsky.social EVERYTHING IS MUSIC is a “revelatory, beguiling celebration of sound and observation, i” says @ala-booklist.bsky.social www.booklistonline.com/products/981...
“A thoroughly enjoyable book that will make an excellent storytime read-aloud” MY TIGER from @geckopress.bsky.social flyingoffmybookshelf.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-t...
A rare Vancouver reading from Phoebe Wang! Phoebe will be joining Joanne Leow in launching their @pressassembly.bsky.social and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social books at Iron Dog Books.
April 30th, 6:30 PM, details here:
irondogbooks.com/events/48383...
We spoke with @antonhur.com about his translation of Park Seolyeon’s ‘Capitalists Must Starve’, published by @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social. We loved our conversation with Anton, whose work we have admired for years! Give this one a read. 📚
www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/talking-with...
“Jeyamohan stages his fundamental inquiry into the nature of existence and the meaning of values that runs through all his novels.” Suchitra Ramachandran on translating The Abyss.
From @geckopress.bsky.social MY TIGER “is a brilliant, whimsical, and deeply empathetic exploration of the big feelings that reside inside every child” kissthebookjr.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-t...
Our translator-in-residence Polly Barton, discussing her incredible novel, WHAT AM I, A DEER? 🦌
Best Literary Translations 2026, guest edited by Arthur Sze and published by @deepvellum.bsky.social, is out today. What an honor to be included in this vibrant anthology. Order it here: store.deepvellum.org/products/bes...
Steve “Dangle” Glynn with the novel he is championing on CBC Canada Reads, Searching for Terry Punchout.
Steve “Dangle” Glynn with the novel he is championing on CBC Canada Reads, Searching for Terry Punchout.
A #CanadaReads behind the scenes fun fact: at the end of each day, super producer Lucy emails me adorable pictures of @stevedangle20.bsky.social.
Copies of On the Calculation of IV displayed on a counter at Island Books
Out today On the Calculation of IV!
'A lot of romance isn’t very sane, or healthy, and there are aspects of it that are overtly dangerous, but that’s where the fascination lies. That interplay between delusion and the real bits.' Polly Barton talks about WHAT AM I, A DEER? in WORMS: www.wormsmagazine.com/wormhole/pol...
Happy #BookBirthday to @nubeocho.bsky.social on the arrival of APRIL'S JOURNEY “A dialogue-sparking meditation on a global crisis” in #picturebook format www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
Now reading Businessmen As Lovers by Rosemary Tonks. “Tonks throws out aphorisms, and scorn, like loose change.” — London Review of Books www.ndbooks.com/book/busines...
…in real life I’m actually a pretty nice person.”
New interview with @blipstress.bsky.social on GENDER REVEAL podcast!!
Hear her talk about everything from her personal beef with Joyce Carol Oates to her and @tuck.bsky.social shared grievance against contemporary fiction
LISTEN: shorturl.at/9NvaU
Join Katherine Koller for the launch of Earthen: Stories ☀️
📍Belgravia Community League Upper Hall 11540 73 Ave NW
Edmonton Alberta
🗓️Thursday, May 14th 2026, 7:30 pm
Pre-order your copy from our website or from your local bookstore
greatplainspress.ca/books/earthen/
“Using characters and letters from various alphabets, Ariza creates fantastical animals that fill the protagonist’s story adventures, beautifully representing language as the foundation of stories” in THE BOOKSHOP coming from @kubepublishing.bsky.social ysbookreviews.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/t...
Welcoming Egana Djabbarova to New York City to celebrate publication of her novel MY DREADFUL BODY.
newvesselpress.com/books/my-dre...
“Nature’s Genius maps aspects of the collision between humanity and some of the other creatures that live, or attempt to live, alongside us.”
Chris Arthur reviews this “whetstone fashioned precisely to enact” a “desperately needed sharpening.”
worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/march/n...
#Mglit #newrelease #bookreview THE GRAND HOTEL OF FEELINGS WORKBOOK at YABC!
yabookscentral.com/middle-grade...
#feelingsandemotions #theraputic #interactive #workbook #companionmaterial
Another 5*/5 read from @newvesselpress.bsky.social, this time a novella translated from Russian: MY DREADFUL BODY by Azeri writer EGANA DJABBAROVA and translated by Lisa C. Hayden. #Booksky
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-d...
The cover of The End of The Sahara
"The novel adopts the tropes of detective fiction only to set them aside, conducting not an investigation but an autopsy of a society on the brink of upheaval."
Amany Alsiefy reviews "The End of the Sahara": lareviewofbooks.org/article/algeria-crime-no...
★ Gayathiri Kamalakanthan’s “scintillating” debut YA verse novel BAD QUEER, illustrated by Chi Nwosu, is a “poetic slice-of-life portrait [that’s] not to be missed”
The third is “The Ritz of the Bayou,” originally published in 1987. It’s a nonfiction account of the Louisiana governor Edwin Edward’s trials for bribery, fraud and racketeering that played out in 1985. The book began as a Vanity Fair assignment, and you can see why Tina Brown, then the magazine’s go-go editor, killed it like a bug. It’s so personal and moody and filled with roller-coaster inversions that Lemann, hilariously, barely managed to tweezer in the details of the case. It’s a humid, meandering, late-period miniature masterpiece of the New Journalism. James Wolcott’s introduction to the new edition is a model of the form. Each of these books is excellent, and exists on the same continuum. The narrators are Lemann or versions of her. These women are frank, sardonic, bookish, self-absorbed and neurotic; they stew in their own juices. They deliver jokey shoves that sometimes land like real ones. The author channels their discontent and delivers slashing little thunderstorms of meaning.
Dwight Garner says THE RITZ OF THE BAYOU is, "A humid, meandering, late-period miniature masterpiece of new journalism" in the @nytimes.com, specifically calling out @jwolcott.bsky.social's intro as, "a model for the form" (I agree).
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/b...
"an edifying, beautifully composed wellspring of moral courage."
A starred review for Instructions for the End of the World by Maggie Helwig from @publisherswkly.bsky.social!
www.publishersweekly.com/9781552455210
MY DREADFUL BODY by Egana Djabbarova excerpted @literaryhub.bsky.social, translated by Lisa C. Hayden: "According to my mother’s strict orders, the big, bushy black eyebrows in the oval mirror were not to be plucked . . . because I was unmarried."
lithub.com/my-dreadful-...
It was so great to see lots of people out for the CBC Mainstreet #CanadaReads event at the Truro Library yesterday! And thank you to Tyler Hellard for coming into the store today to sign books! I still have copies of all the Canada Reads books if you haven't gotten yours yet! 🍁📚🦆
