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The CBC Books summer reading list: 18 cool books to read while the weather heats up
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Novelists Cherie Dimaline, Omar El Akkad and Sharon Bala discuss Canada Reads
Three of the battle of the books finalists regrouped at the Festival of Literary Diversity for a conversation about race, representation and reading.
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You could win $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, attend a 10-day writing residency at the Banff Centre and have your work published on CBC Books. Enter by May 31, 2018.
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Jordan Abel, Kai Cheng Thom and Ruth B. to judge 2018 CBC Poetry Prize
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The nuances of sex, class and religion in American society, according to the late Tom Wolfe
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Why Arthur Ellis Award-nominated crime writer John MacLachlan Gray doesn't write for success or fame
Your ultimate Canadian poetry list: 68 poetry collections recommended by you
Joshua Whitehead, Ben Ladouceur & Trish Salah named finalists for LGBTQ emerging writers prize
Vikki VanSickle, Danielle Younge-Ullman among 2018 Forest of Reading winners
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How Tima Kurdi is honouring the memory of her nephew with her book, The Boy on the Beach
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Amazon.ca First Novel Award finalist Michael Kaan would rather watch YouTube than read reviews of his book
Anne Frank's 'dirty jokes' reveal a lot about her aspirations as a writer, says researcher
Romance writer renames book after author trademarks 'cocky'
The definitive works of Tom Wolfe
The bestselling books of the week: May 6-12, 2018
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What inspires Arthur Ellis Award-nominated writer Rio Youers's best work
Suzanne by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, trans. by Rhonda Mullins, makes Best Translated Book Award shortlist
David Sedaris reads his essay The Ones That Got Away, from his new book Calypso
From isolated homeschooling to a PhD from Cambridge: How Tara Westover was saved by her education
Why Carrianne Leung wrote about the secrets of suburbia in her latest novel
Book about how Canadian banks survived the financial crisis wins $50K Donner Prize for best public policy book
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