Jason Guriel is the author of On Browsing, Forgotten Work, The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicles and other books. He lives in Toronto.
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Alana Wilcox is the Editorial Director of Coach House Books, an independent publisher of literary fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, where she has acquired and edited many books, including the Scotiabank Giller Prize winners Fifteen Dogs (André Alexis) and The Sleeping Car Porter (Suzette Mayr). She is the co-founder of the uTOpia series of anthologies about […]
Michelle Giroux has worked in both Canadian theatre and the television and film industry for the past 25 years. After graduating from The National Theatre School at the age of 20 she began her trajectory as an actress at The Stratford Festival. In her first two seasons, Michelle toured to New York City Center playing […]
Maev Beaty is a theatre-maker, parent and activist, and critically-acclaimed stage, screen and voice artist. She has originated roles in two dozen Canadian Premieres, and played contemporary and classic lead roles at the Stratford Festival for eight seasons and in theatres across the country including Soulpepper, Tarragon, the Globe, Canadian Stage and La Mama in […]
Jesse Eisenberg is known for The Social Network (2010) and Fleishman is in Trouble (2022).
Bob Joseph, founder of Indigenous Corporate Training Inc., has provided training on Indigenous and Aboriginal relations since 1994. As a certified Master Trainer, Joseph has assisted both individuals and organizations in building Indigenous or Aboriginal relations. His clients include all levels of government, Fortune 500 companies, corporate enterprises, and Indigenous peoples in Canada, U.S., Central […]
Bonnie Stern is the founder of the Bonnie Stern School of Cooking in Toronto, which she opened and operated from 1973 to 2011. She hosted three national cooking shows, and for 17 years, wrote a weekly column for the National Post. Bonnie is also the creator of a groundbreaking book club in which authors are […]
Zoe Maslow is a Senior Editor at Appetite, the boutique food and lifestyle division of Penguin Random House Canada. She has edited numerous bestselling and award-winning titles for the imprint, working with authors such as television star Mary Berg; IACP Award–winning chef and food writer Bonnie Stern; YouTube superstar Pailin Chongchitnant, of Hot Thai Kitchen […]
Ozoz Sokoh is a food explorer, educator, budding curator and Traveler By Plate, for whom “Food Is More Than Eating”. Since 2009, she’s written the Kitchen Butterfly blog, and in 2020, she created Feast Afrique, a platform celebrating West African Culinary and Culture knowledge. She is a professor of Food & Tourism Studies at Centennial […]
في سياق دولة ذات حضور طاغ في تفاصيل حياة المواطنين مثل مصر الناصرية، لا حيلة للناس للتخفيف من وطأة ذلك الحضور إلا اللجوء إلى وسيلتين: “الشائعة” و “النكتة”. عبر الشائعة والنكتة يخفف الناس من وطأة الظروف الصعبة، أو يوجهون نقداً لا يستساغ إن تم توجيهه في صورة خطاب جاد. في أفلام المهندس وشويكار تضافرت النكتة […]
“البيريتا يكسب دائماً”، والرواية كما يكشفُ عنوانها، هي سيرةُ مسدَّسٍ مشبوهٍ يتنقَّل بين المهرّبين ورجال الشرطة والمخبرين واللصوص والعشيقات والإعلاميين والكتّاب. مسدَّسٌ ملعونٌ ملطّخ بكل تاريخ القتل والتصفيات السياسية والعاطفية، يجوب الجيوب يبحث عن واحد فقط يجرؤ على الانتحار، في بلد طار سقفه وسقطت المشانق على الثوَّار والحائرين. كاتب تونسي يحقق بمخبئه في قضية انتحار […]
قبل أن يشقى فكتور فرانكشتاين، في رواية ماري شيلي، وراء وحشه، كان يعيش قلقا وحزنا بسبب موت أمه، فانهمك في العمل على أبحاثه ليصنع الوحش. إن مشاعر اليتم الخلاقة هذه هي نفسها التي كان يتخبط فيها الشعب التونسي قبيل انتخاب سعيّد، فقد فشل هذا الشعب في العثور على حل لتيهه التاريخي بعد إسقاط دكتاتور كان […]
Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear. Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, pressed up against the mountains, cloud-covered […]
Novelist, journalist, activist, teacher, Susan Swan’s impact on the Canadian literary and political scene has been far-reaching. Her fiction has been published in 20 countries. She is best known for her novels The Biggest Woman in the World about the giantess Anna Swan who exhibited with P.T. Barnum and The Wives of Bath, a gothic […]
Alexis Schaitkin’s novel, Elsewhere, was a finalist for the Carol Shields Prize and an ALA Notable Book of 2023. Her debut novel, Saint X, was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2020 and has been translated into seven languages. Her fiction has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Best […]
After years of watering and replanting her own personal seeds of success, all while maintaining a level of mystery and reticence on the surface, Adria Kain is now ready to rise and flourish into full bloom. Using the art of storytelling, Adria draws from her own reality, sharing moments of raw and honest lived experiences […]
How to build a transportation system to provide mobility for all Road to Nowhere exposes the flaws in Silicon Valley’s vision of the future: ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft to take us anywhere; electric cars to make them ‘green’; and automation to ensure transport is cheap and ubiquitous. Such promises are implausible and potentially […]
Paris Marx is a Canadian technology writer and host of the award-winning Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. He’s the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation and writes Disconnect, a critical technology newsletter. Paris speaks internationally about the politics of technology and his work has appeared in […]
Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French cooking The hugely anticipated follow up to Heat–Bill Buford’s hilariously self-deprecating, highly obsessive adventures in the world of French haute cuisine. In Dirt, Bill Buford–author of the best-selling, now-classic, Heat–moves his attention from Italian cuisine to the food of France. […]
Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany A sharp, funny, informative and deliciously captivating book about writer, Bill Buford’s year-in-training as a cook at Mario Batali’s famous New York restaurant, Babbo, his apprenticeship to a Tuscan butcher, and his quest to make the perfect […]
Bill Buford was the founding editor of Granta in England; the literary & fiction editor of the New Yorker; and, for 20+ years, has been writing about food culture for the magazine. He is the author of 2 bestsellers, Heat, about his time in Italian restaurants (and one very famous Tuscan butcher shop), and Dirt, […]
