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November's Publishing Merger Sale: join forces and conquer (with savings)

Seems everyone is talking mergers these days: Random House and Penguin, Disney and Lucasfilm, Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger. Well, Coach House doesn't want you to miss out on all the merging fun.

David McGimpsey interview with The Toronto Quarterly

October 29, 2012 - David McGimpsey, whose poetry collection Li'l Bastard is nominated for a 2012 Governor's General Literary Award, spoke with The Toronto Quarterly about writing poetry vs. writing music, his formative years in Montreal and why his GG nomination was even better than being named Starbucks's client of the week.

An excerpt from the interview follows:

Cordelia Strube at IFOA: The Roads Taken recap

October 30, 2012 - Author Cordelia Strube (Milosz) sat on a panel at last week's International Festival of Authors in Toronto entitled 'The Roads Taken,' discussing the authorial process along with Emma Donoghue, Andri Snær Magnason and Alix Ohlin. The IFOA blog has a recap of the round table, which was hosted by Stephen W. Beattie.

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Monoceros wins 2012 ReLit Award for Best Novel

Congratulations to Suzette Mayr, whose novel Monoceros was announced the winner of the 2012 ReLit Award for Best Novel on October 29 during the Ottawa Writers Festival.

We're celebrating the great news by offering 30% off when you buy the book (print or ebook) through our website. This offer is good until Sunday, November 4. Order your copy now!

Jonathan Ball talks politics, knives with Open Book Toronto

On October 26, author of Clockfire and The Politics of Knives Jonathan Ball spoke with Open Book Toronto about violence and language, movies and novels and the possibility of a perfect day.

An excerpt from the interview follows:

OB: What does "the violence of language" mean to you?

Stroll One-Day TedxToronto Sale

In celebration of Shawn Micallef's talk at the 2012 TEDxToronto conference, Coach House is offering his book of psychogeographic walking tours, Stroll, for $5 off all day long on October 26! That's $5 off, both the print editions and PDF and epub versions. (Fun fact: if you order the print edition, you'll get the epub version for free!)

Discuss Mad Hope with Heather Birrell on Goodreads

From October 15 to 30, The Next Best Book Blog is hosting an author/reader discussion on Heather Birrell's short story collection Mad Hope on Goodreads. So far, Birrell's talked with readers about the short story genre, her writing process and frogs.

Tamara Faith Berger shares her Maidenhead playlist

Curious what Tamara Faith Berger's novel Maidenhead would sound like in musical form? Berger has curated a playlist for the novel, which explores young female sexuality, for the Book Notes feature at the Largehearted Boy blog. She discusses her selections, which include tunes by PJ Harvey, Bob Marley and Blonde Redhead:

Open Book Toronto profiles Sarah Pinder

Poet Sarah Pinder, whose first collection, Cutting Room, was released this fall (the official launch is on November 7 in Toronto), spoke with Open Book Toronto as part of their Poets in Profile series. In the interview, Pinder discusses her diverse influences, which range from Walt Whitman to industrialized meatpacking (really!).

An excerpt follows:

Gail Scott the focus of latest issue of Open Letter

The Summer 2012 issue of Open Letter, the journal of critical and theoretical discussions of poetics and Canadian culture published out of the University of Western Ontario, centres on the work of Gail Scott (The Obituary, Biting the Error, Spare Parts Plus Two).