Don't miss our first Bookshelf Salon 7pm on November 17 at 44 Suffolk Street W. Editor of 2024 Best Canadian Stories, Lisa Moore will be with us and joining her in conversation about writing, stories, voice, compulsion and more will be last year's Governor General Award Winner for Non-fiction, poet, and now short story writer Madhur Anand and contributor & novelist Gary Barwin! Should be fun! $5.00 at the door and space is limited.

For sure there's a silliness and inelegance to the whole affair, but so is there in life, and Shelstad has as firm a handle on that as any so-called serious writer.

Our highly successful Sunday Secret Cinema series is returning.

You certainly don’t have to have loss of vision to be amazed by the richness of this book.

Twenty-five years into his career, his shelves no doubt bowing from accolades, Whitehead still feels new, excited and wondering and explorative, but with the experience to fully exploit that vigor.

Taylor writes his characters with such intimacy that it's impossible to tell who, if anyone, he's sending up. Really, all his depictions are unflattering and fair. But caring, too. In truth, we are all of us annoying and we are all, in our way, human and valid.