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Why Jen Storm wrote a graphic novel about reconciliation

In her first graphic novel, Fire Starters, Jen Storm shows how reconciliation can work at a local level.

How Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat inspired Bruce Poon Tip to chase his dreams

The G Adventures founder is putting the classic tale on the Great Canadian Reading list.
Erin Balser

Rupi Kaur publishing second poetry collection this fall

the sun and her flowers, the follow-up to the bestselling milk and honey, will be available on Oct. 3, 2017.
Erin Balser
Writers & Company

Edward Said's ideas about power and identity still resonate today​

Eleanor talks to the noted literary critic and public intellectual, author of Culture and Imperialism, in this conversation from 1993.
Radio Writers & Company
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Mariko Tamaki on solving the mystery of growing up different

Radio The Next Chapter

10 writers make longlist for $10,000 Journey Prize for short fiction

Erin Balser
Reading List

The CBC Books summer reading list

CBC Books
The Current

How did Canadian publisher McClelland & Stewart become owned by a German company?

The Next Chapter

Andrew Westoll on primate obsession and staring down birds of prey

Radio The Next Chapter

Why Lynn Coady's Saints of Big Harbour is a Canadian must-read for Wendy Bergfeldt

Jane van Koeverden
As It Happens

'Fiercely independent': Friend remembers Chinese Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo

Scaachi Koul to write and executive produce comedy series inspired by her book

Jane van Koeverden
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L.M. Montgomery's secret dark side revealed in republished, uncensored, journals

Carmen Ponciano
News Kitchener-Waterloo

Why Amanda Parris loves the anthology Testifyin'

Jane van Koeverden
Reading List

The 150 bestselling Canadian books of the past 10 years

CBC Books
Writing Tip

Feel like your writing has cabin fever? Get outside!

Dionne Codrington
Canada Writes
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Gin Phillips tests the limits of motherhood in new novel Fierce Kingdom

Magic 8 Q&A

How bestselling author Patrick Taylor became an expert in improvised explosives

Mac Cameron

Why Russell Bowers believes In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Maté is a mental health must-read

Jane van Koeverden

The bestselling books in Canada: July 2–8, 2017

CBC Books

Why Montreal's Irish Mafia by D'Arcy O'Connor is one of Jay Baruchel's favourite books

Jane van Koeverden

Gord Downie, Jeff Lemire nominated for Joe Shuster comic book awards

Jane van Koeverden

Dionne Brand named to the Order of Canada

Erin Knoll
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How Glee star Chris Colfer became a bestselling YA author

Radio Q
The Current

Gastrophysics explains how potato chips can taste even better

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