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The CBC Books fall 2017 preview: the books you must read this season

The fall book season is going to be bigger and better than ever.
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How Chelsea Vowel is confronting Indigenous stereotypes

The Métis writer on Indigenous culture, stereotypes and the important of education.
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Is the way you read changing?

Sunday on Cross Country Checkup: scrolling versus reading. Be honest now...even in the lazy days of summer, do you read a book from cover to cover? Does anyone now? Is the way you read changing?
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QUIZ

Can you ace our Shakespeare in Canada quiz?

From The Tragically Hip to Christopher Plummer, how much do you know about Canada's love for the Bard?
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TAPESTRY

Margaret Atwood says religion isn't the problem... human beings are

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My Life In Books

6 books that shaped sci-fi author Robert J. Sawyer

Ashly July

How Claire Cameron wrote a book set 40,000 years ago

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Children's picture books: An exercise in meditative reading

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Jen Agg, Catherine Hernandez nominated for Toronto Book Awards

Jane van Koeverden

Popular Canadian author André Alexis inspired by southwestern Ontario

News Windsor

Author explores how Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho brought the marginal into the mainstream

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The Current

Anti-fascist handbook explores long history of opposition movement

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How Dan Auerbach helped bring graphic novel Murder Ballads to life

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Beyoncé releasing $300 coffee table book about her album Lemonade

Jane van Koeverden

The bestselling books in Canada: Aug. 13-19, 2017

CBC Books

Try Dora, not Pooh: Storybooks with human characters instead of animals better for learning, study finds

News Toronto
Updated

Bye bye book tax: N.L. launching independent review of its tax system

Sarah Smellie and Anna Delaney
News NL
Magic 8 Q&A

Why Cynthia Flood believes too much revision can be a bad thing

Ryan B. Patrick

Monumental Quebec author, Réjean Ducharme, dead at 76

The Canadian Press

Tracey Lindberg, Michael Christie & Christy Ann Conlin to judge 2017 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize

Jane van Koeverden

British science fiction writer Brian Aldiss dead at 92

The Associated Press
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How sex gave pop music its meaning

A guide to Canadian literary magazines and journals open to submissions

CBC Books
Canada Writes
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Why Ruth B loves Rupi Kaur's poetry

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Writing Tip

Good writers know what they are good at — and what they need to work on

Dionne Codrington
Canada Writes

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