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Patrick Cummins and Shawn Micallef's Full Frontal T.O. offers a lively, pictorial history of Toronto's buildings and storefronts. Do you have experiences or anecdotes to add to this ever-changing story? If so, consider contributing to the Full Frontal T.O. Blog.

Tamara Faith Berger Talks About Sexy Fiction with the Toronto Star

In an interview with the Toronto Star's Greg Quill, Tamara Faith Berger – author of the enthralling and unselfconsciously smutty novel Maidenhead - discusses her love for George Bataille, her predilection for smut, and her future aspirations as a writer:

Shawn Micallef's Stroll City Returns to Toronto

Pattison Onestop, Coach House Books and Art for Commuters (A4C) have teamed up for a third year and are pleased to announce the return of the popular city-wide, interactive media-art project, Stroll City from June 4 to June 24, 2012 on the network of Pattison Onestop’s TTC subway platform screens throughout Toronto.

Heather Birrell's Blog Tour, Stop Ten: Reeder Reads

'I’ve never had a rating system on this blog, but if I did have one, Heather Birrell’s Mad Hope would receive a 5/5' says Reeder, of the blog Reeder Reads.

Her glowing review marks the tenth stop of the Mad Hope Blog Tour.

Reeder also calls Mad Hope a stunning collection 'filled with detailed and beautiful writing.'

Mad Hope Blog Tour, Stop Nine: The Danforth Review

For the ninth stop of the Mad Hope Blog Tour, Heather Birrell talks to The Danforth Review about her love for Sherman Alexie and Grace Paley and her enduring fascination with the short story form.

'I think the short story is a good match for any century,' says Birrell.

Mad Hope Blog Tour, Stop Eight: The Rusty Toque interviews Heather Birrell

Kathryn Mockler, at the incredible (and incredibly named) new literary blog, The Rusty Toque, interviewed Heather Birrell about Mad Hope and her writing process as part of May's Mad Hope Blog Tour:

KM: What keeps you going as a writer or why do you write?

Mad Hope Blog Tour, Stop Seven: Grace O'Connell's Blog and the TATAs Survey

For the seventh stop in Heather Birrell's whirlwind Mad Hope Blog Tour, she did the TATAS survey on Magnified World author Grace O'Connell's blog. The TATAS survey asks Toronto-based authors about their favourite places in and around the city. Some excerpts can be found below:

3. Bookstore or library branch

Helen Guri shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry!

Coach House is over the moon to announce that Helen Guri's debut collection of poetry, Match, was named a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry on Wednesday, May 9, 2012.

Heather Birrell's Blog Tour, Stop Six: Open Book Toronto's Proust Questionnaire

As part of the ongoing Mad Hope Blog Tour, Heather Birrell took Open Book Toronto's Proust Questionairre, a quiz popularized by the French author, which is supposed to reveal the subject's true self. Read on to find out about Birrell's belief in the necessity of love, despite her inexplicable hatred for shrimp:

Heather Birrell's Blog Tour, Stop Four: Pickle Me This

For the fifth instalment of Heather Birrell's Mad Hope Blog Tour, Pickle Me This conducted a detailed interview with the author, touching on motherhood, femininity, internet communications and the way a strange incident in a park became the basis for a Journey Prize-winning story: