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Swan’s Way: Beyond her distinguished writing career, Susan Swan has built a reputation as one of CanLit’s most devoted activists and mentors
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FRONTMATTER
Why ebooks could be the future of Canadian journalism
Craig Davidson’s Rust and Bone gets the red-carpet treatment
Deal: Ian Hamilton’s Ava Lee finds a U.S. home
Snapshot: Novelist, bookseller, and editor JoAnn McCaig
BookThug’s banner year
Cover to cover: Frank Davey’s aka bpNichol
REVIEWS
Sweet Jesus by Christine Pountney
Anna from Away by D.R. MacDonald
The Rapture of the Nerds by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross
My Leaky Body: Tales from the Gurney by Julie Devaney
The Age of Hope by David Bergen
PLUS more fiction, non-fiction, and poetry
BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
This Is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen
Bella’s Blessings by Brenda Stokes; Trisha DesRosiers, illus.
Wishes by Jean Little; Geneviève Côté, illus.
(You) Set Me on Fire by Mariko Tamaki
The Encyclopedia of Me by Karen Rivers
PLUS more fiction, non-fiction,and picture books
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In struggling to discover my voice as a writer, I overlooked what had been there all along, writes Miranda Hill
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