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A Blog About Books and Reading
The recognition puts the publisher and distributor in the same category as the Toronto International Film Festival, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the National Ballet.
"It’s clear that the lines between what is public and what’s private has been blurred," said Elana Rabinovitch.
"I would turn your attention back to the role of literature in situations like this, which is to interrogate hate and certitude and ideas that people are conflicted about."
Vampires, it would seem, are everywhere in our culture.
Sharp shares with Jon Klassen an affection for macabre conclusions in which the story's villain gets an exaggerated, though not unwarranted, comeuppance.
Sathue's novel is the fist release from the Soho Press horror imprint Hell's Hundred.
"I don't think any of us are 100% good or 100% bad. And I think it's kind of boring to portray characters that way."
At its best, horror has always skirted an anarchic or illicit sensibility.
"The problem in this country is that people seem to feel that if it's funny it's not serious."
The one area that literary craft does get elevated a bit beyond a pulp sensibility is in the East London setting.