IMPAC Dublin 2015

Posted on November 26, 2014

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Prize watch: Wow, the long list for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award really does live up to its name! There are 142 books nominated – 11 of them by Canadians. I suppose when you are the richest literary prize in the world (€100,000) you can have the longest long list. Continue reading →

2014 Andrew Carnegie Medals

Posted on April 9, 2014

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Prize watch: The shortlists for the 2014 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction are out. Great stuff here! Americanah strikes again. Rumour has it Americanah and The Goldfinch are going to battle for all the fiction prizes this season.

NBCC Awards 2013

Posted on March 14, 2014

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Prize watch: Congrats to all the winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards, including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Americanah and Sheri Fink for Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital. (Both were on my list of top reads for 2013. Finally, for once, the critics and I think alike!)

Top Reads of 2013

Posted on January 12, 2014

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Title page of my copy of "Milosz," where Cordelia Strube inscribed "It is so cool that you like a lot of different things. Hope you dig this book!" — Cordelia Strube inscribed my copy of Milosz at the 2012 International Festival of Authors. I realize she’s poking fun at me, but she’s hilarious and I love it anyway.

I stated emphatically for days that I wasn’t going to do this, but I’ve had a few requests, so, what the hell, I’m doing it. Continue reading →

“…I don’t really get the appeal of YOLO. I live many times over. Hypothetical, subterranean lives that run beneath the relative tedium of my own and have the power to occasionally penetrate or even derail it. I find it hard to name the one book that was so damn delightful it changed my life. The truth is, they have all changed my life, every single one of them—even the ones I hated.”

~ Zadie Smith

			Lovely readers, let’s take a sec to acknowledge that the land where I sit to write this blog is the traditional territory of the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Anishinaabeg, and is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit. It’s part of the Dish with One Spoon treaty, an agreement among Indigenous nations and newcomers to peaceably share and care for the land. Toronto is home to many Indigenous peoples from across Turtle Island, and I am grateful to be able to live, work and celebrate literature here.
Join me in decolonizing our reading lives – we can do this by seeking out, reading and supporting the work of First Nations, Métis and Inuit writers, and authors from many diverse communities whose work has traditionally been disadvantaged by colonialism.


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