Casey Plett will be everywhere in fall 2022 and spring 2023
Plett's own debut collection of short fiction, A Safe Girl to Love, is being reissued by her current publisher, Vancouver's Arsenal Pulp Press.
Publishers as “angels” and other weird assertions from Markus Dohle cap a busy week at DoJ v. PRH antitrust trial
Dohle suggested on the stand that publishers resembled the "Silicon Valley of media" and compared their work to that of angel investors in business.
“A high and beautiful wave”: Revisiting the savage journey of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas fifty years later
Thompson's wild, violent, funny, anarchic book chronicles a motorcycle derby, an extended drug binge, and – most significantly – the corrosion of the American Dream.
Stephen King and Jonathan Karp square off in the early days of the DoJ/PRH/S&S antitrust suit
"When I started in this business, there were literally hundreds of imprints, and some of them were run by people with extremely idiosyncratic tastes, one might say."
Controversial journalist and confessed “sex radical” Gerald Hannon’s memoir provides an overview of LGBTQ+ history over the past four decades
One need not agree with everything the author writes or believes in order to recognize the importance of his memoir as a document of the LGBTQ+ community's development in Canada.
In How to Read Now, Elaine Castillo argues for expanding and interrogating unquestioned interpretive approaches toward art and literature
"White supremacy makes for terrible readers," Castillo writes in this collection of provocative and confrontational essays.
In Bad City, journalist Paul Pringle recounts institutional resistance to investigative reporting – from inside his own newsroom
Pringle's book tells the story of a dean at USC who was found in a hotel room with a twenty-one-year-old woman who had overdosed on illegal drugs.
Ain’t I a Woman, the first book by the late bell hooks, still retains its power and relevance
The feminist and cultural critic's 1981 polemic reads as though it were written yesterday.
Fawn Parker deconstructs male ego and the image of the great man in literature and academia in two angry, unflinching novels
Despite some missteps and shots at easy targets, Parker's novels combine to form a provocative riposte to a culture that valorizes a certain kind of profane masculinity.
Conspiracy theories, misinformation, and other instances of bad thinking are the subjects of three recent books about our current epistemological crisis
Fake news, disinformation, propaganda, and other elements of a culture that denies reality are corroding our society. These books show a possible road out of this situation.