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Choosing a Valentine's Day gift for the book lover in your life

A book can make a great Valentine's Day present. But choosing the right one can also be trickier than relying on the generic bouquet or box of chocolates. CBC Books' Erin Balser and her partner, Matt Elliott, spoke with Fresh Air host Mary Ito about what makes it a mine-field.

A literary corner online on the East Coast

Poet and book blogger Kerri Cull talks to Weekend Arts Magazine about how Canada Reads inspired her to organize a regional books debate.

8th Fire: Amanda Nahanee

"As a young woman, it's a huge honour to share the traditional knowledge of our First Nations people right from here, from this area," Nahanee says.

Exploring black Canadian literature

Watch: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

War Horse gallops into Toronto

Book News

video Anne Rice returns with The Wolf Gift video: The queen of gothic fiction turns from vampires to werewolves with her new work. She talks to CBC about her new confidence, struggles with Christianity and modernizing classic monsters
Famed romance began with exchange of letters: The 573 love letters exchanged between Elizabeth Barrett and her future husband, fellow poet Robert Browning, are now viewable online.
Booksellers blame U.S.-Canada price gap on old rules: There's an easy way to help lower Canadian book prices, representatives from the industry told a Senate committee: eliminate a rule that allows U.S. publishers to charge more for books sent to Canada.

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Listen this week

The Next Chapter

Shelagh Rogers chats with Canada's current and future literary stars. This week, she speaks with Michele Landsberg about Writing the Revolution.

Writers & Company

Eleanor Wachtel talks with writers from around the world. This week, poet Robert Pinsky reads from his award-winning verse translation of Dante's Inferno.

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