Books behind bars: Book Clubs for Inmates features forty authors in December fundraising push
"Every author who's ever gone into an institution always comes out and tells me it's one of the most interesting groups they've ever spoken to."
“Be careful with the stories you tell”: In a bombshell essay, author and activist Thomas King acknowledges he has no Cherokee heritage
"Do the stories we tell reflect the world as it truly is, or did we simply start off with the wrong story?"
Eden Mills Writers’ Festival stirs online anger over including an “AI author” in its lineup
Technology is a tool, it is not a collaborator or a teacher or a creator.
Giles Blunt talks about trading in his series mystery character for historical fiction in his latest novel, Bad Juliet
The touchstone for Bad Juliet occurred during a vacation Blunt and his wife took to the Adirondacks.
“Everything is finite”: Saad Omar Khan on Muslim identity, writing as documentation, and his debut novel, Drinking the Ocean
"There's something to be said about the 'you' as a writer when you first start a manuscript and the 'you' as the editor when you finish it."
A live podcast event featuring Anne Michaels celebrates one year of The Walrus’s partnership with Nathan Whitlock’s What Happened Next
This is not the first time Whitlock has contemplated a live conversation for his podcast.
“Any truth has a paradox within it”: Sarah Selecky on creativity, deep noticing, and her new book about tapping into your full writing potential
"I'm just giving voice to the part I haven't read yet."
Remembering Andrew Pyper, the bestselling author who shattered boundaries between literary and genre fiction
“When you look back in fifty years on the great writers in Canadian literature, I think he’s going to have to be included in that.”
Gail Crowther’s latest volume examines the underappreciated legacy of Dorothy Parker’s time in Hollywood
One thing Crowther does accentuate is Parker's versatility.
Is licensing authors’ work to train AI a Faustian bargain?
What is a reasonable price for becoming an active participant in one's own obsolescence?