Claudia Dey Is Powerful With Her Prose
The author on writing as necessity, deconstructing archetypes, and her latest novel, Daughter.
The author on writing as necessity, deconstructing archetypes, and her latest novel, Daughter.
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The Top Three Book Recommendations From an Epic Novelist Praised by Stephen King
American author Lauren Groff reflects on a few of her favourite reads from last year.
Lauren Groff tries to ready equally both historical and contemporary books—fitting for a novelist skilled at animating disparate centuries.
Children’s Author Jon Klassen’s Book Recommendations
Braving the dark.
Canadian author Jon Klassen talks about the three books that changed his writing career and life.
Bestselling Author Anna Kloots on Love, Loss, New Beginnings, and Paris
To Paris with love.
New York Times bestselling author Anna Kloots is basking in her own magic. After a few years of love, loss, and new beginnings, she is enjoying l’art de vivre, living in Paris, where she just released a memoir, My Own Magic: A Reappearing Act. NUVO Magazine caught up with her to chat about her love for Paris and what prompted her to write her memoir.
Francesca Ekwuyasi Brings Vibrant Literary Prowess to Canada’s East Coast
Ekwuyasi’s work explores themes of faith, family, queerness, consumption, loneliness, and belonging.
Halifax writer Francesca Ekwuyasi got her start when she was 10, writing fictional stories in her journal. In her early 20s, still in her native Lagos, Nigeria, she began writing short stories, ultimately submitting one for publication around 2015.
Canadian Novelist Marlowe Granados on Blurring the Lines Between Party Girl and Poet
Taking whimsy seriously.
Taking whimsy seriously.
Happy Hour is a tribute to a particular frenetic pace among New York’s social elite, one sometimes lived by these kinds of characters—modern femmes fatales and manic pixie dream girls.
Canadian Author Naben Ruthnum Talks Technology and Diversity Politics
In his new book A Hero of Our Time, Ruthnum offers a fierce critique of the tech world and the profit-driven strivers who populate it.
Ruthnum is a student of form as much as substance, and his latest novel was the only way to contain some of the sweeping ideas about technology, diversity politics, and the modern workplace that had been nagging at him for months.
Author Camilla Gibb on Literature, Life, and the Role of Writer in Troubled Times
Letters from lockdown.
After the dissolution of her marriage, Camilla Gibb lost the ability to write fiction. The stories vanished, fluttering off somewhere out of reach, and it took many years for the acclaimed writer to hold them in her hands again.
Stephen Graham Jones Battles Stereotypes and Serial Killers in His Breakout Novel
The perils of being a good Indian.
Stephen Graham Jones, member of the Blackfeet Nation, is an athlete of the printed word, often localizing common slasher tropes in the context of Indigeneity.
