We’re cheering the Toronto Public Library’s selection for their One Book award. Maggie Helwig’s 2008 release Girls Fall Down (Coach House), her Toronto-set story of post 9/11 paranoia, has been named as the one book Torontonians just have to read this year.

Glad Day Books is now owned by a cadre of active members of the LGBTQ community, including influential human rights lawyer  El-Farouk Khaki.

CanLit does pretty well sales-wise all over the world, but we don’t necessarily expect our authors to be considered the sexiest people alive. Why not? says the CanLit Is Sexy website. Riffing off the titles and themes of their books – using only a few words and the writers’ publicity pics and book jackets – the site playfully eroticizes Canuck authors both present and past.

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