Toni Morrison

Attacus Atlas & Other Inventions: Devi’s 2019 reading list (well, as of the first week of Jan.)

Tuesday, January 8, 2019
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I have my eyes on so many books this year! Like my beloved colleagues at the Debutante Ball I came up with a list for #Debut19Chat last month, and today’s list is an expansion.  I’m excited to delve into these rich and varied worlds! This list is still fluid, I’m certain I’ll be adding to it! In this field, an assortment of literary novels, memoir, YA, works in translation, essays…

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Interview with Chelene Knight + DEAR CURRENT OCCUPANT giveaway

We are so thrilled to have Vancouver-based author and poet Chelene Knight as our guest on The Debutante Ball this week!! Chelene has been published in various Canadian and American literary magazines, and her work is widely anthologized. Chelene is currently the managing editor at Room magazine, and the 2018 Programming Director for the Growing Room Festival, and CEO of #LearnWritingEssentials. Chelene has been a judge for many writing contests…

Saturday, December 29, 2018
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Craving All the Feels? These Five (+) Books Will Get You There

Wednesday, October 5, 2016
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When it comes to novels’ subject matter, I don’t shy away from the brutal. Many of my favorite books are the ones which march unswervingly into dark and painful realms. I find these types of explorations are the ones which often make me feel the most, the ones which stay with me for years. I search for redemption in these tough books: in the beauty of language, in the depth…

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And The Winner is … My top 5 reads? Impossible.

Tuesday, October 4, 2016
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Best books ever? This is going to be so easy! The Art of the Deal The Bible Just kidding No, I definitely do NOT find this easy. Who came up with such a terrible blog topic? I did? Well, shit. There are so many books I love – and for so many different reasons – I’m going to need categories. (We’re supposed to list five books here, but math was really never…

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Books I Can’t Quit

Friday, February 13, 2015
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I love that scene in BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN where Enos says, “I wish I knew how to quit you.” That’s me and my favorite books. No matter how tall my TBR stack gets, there are books I go back to over and over again. Their spines are broken, their pages are spotted with whatever I was eating or drinking when I was reading them, and nearly all the pages are dog-eared…

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