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JULY TALK: The Town That Drowned JULY READ: Man AUGUST READ: Kiss of the Fur Queen

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Our Favourite Writing from Canadian Lit Mags (Fall 2014 Edition – Part I)

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Thank you to PRISM Magazine for including BOTH of the winners of our 2013 CNF contest on this list! (Also thrilled to see former Room contributors included for their work in other lit magazines).

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We have our first TBR up on the channel! Join jvpurcell as he guides you through his pile of books about #CanLit!

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"…these loved ones of yours, some of whom—you’re now discovering—are not people at all, but cities and landscapes, towns and lakes and clothing you used to wear and neighbourhood cafés and long-lost dogs."

- Margaret Atwood, “The Tent” (via a-roundabout)

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Join Jason as he begins this month's discussion of Kim Thúy's forthcoming novel Mãn, what he calls his favourite read of 2014.

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 Margaret Atwood writing The Handmaid’s Tale in Berlin, 1984.

(These days, her desk looks like this)

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Jason wraps up our July discussion of Riel Nason's The Town That Drowned. Check back in August for discussion of Kim Thúy's Mãn.

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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Stephen Leacock

Toronto: Collins White Circle, 1945

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The Montrealer. vol. 32, no. 5 (May 1958)

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Literary Lapses

Stephen Leacock

Toronto: Collins White Circle, 1945

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Canada Brian Moore and the Editors of LIFE New York: Time, 1963

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