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Total unit sales were up year-over-year for the first part of 2021, with juvenile/young adult sales in the lead, followed by adult nonfiction, and adult fiction.
Though marred by some sloppy writing and digressions, Brown’s book provides a valuable counter to a justice system in thrall to wealth and influence.
“Any story, any work of literature, any storytelling endeavour has to be both lighthouse and storm,” El Akkad says.
As a leader of the Anthropodermic Book Project, Rosenbloom has for years been ensconced in the realm of anthropodermic bibliopegy – in lay terms, the practice of binding books in human skin.
“We’re not an all-trans press,” says Fitzpatrick. “We definitely understand ourselves as a feminist press run by trans women.”
The manuscript, deemed by the French government a national treasure, is one of the most controversial and frequently banned works ever published.
A breezy, plot-driven book and an abstruse, philosophically dense ontological mystery provide different pleasures for readers.
While 2021 will once again run as a digital festival, 2022 includes changes such as a new festival date and a mini-fest devoted to crime writing.
The novel, which won the 2021 Man Booker International Prize, questions where duty and friendship end and insanity begins.
Despite more than four decades working as a playwright, director, and screenwriter, Brad Fraser balks at the notion that he is part of the Canadian theatre establishment. Fraser, who won a provincial playwriting award as a student in Edmonton in