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The CBC Books fall reading list: 30 books to read now
David Bezmozgis, Alix Hawley and Rawi Hage to judge 2020 CBC Short Story Prize
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Dan MacDonald of The Bookmark shares what's selling at his Charlottetown store
Catherine Gildiner writes about her most memorable therapy patients in Good Morning, Monster
Margaret Atwood donating Booker Prize winnings to Indspire to support education of Indigenous students
Jordan Tannahill reviews Philip Roth's The Plot Against America in light of Margaret Atwood's The Testaments
Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys wins $50K U.S. Kirkus Prize
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Why Jill Barber recommends reading buzzy book Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
My Life in Books
Seven Fallen Feathers author Tanya Talaga shares her 6 favourite books
Brian Francis faced his fears to write YA — and got nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award
'A bit emotional,' Margaret Atwood receives rare honour from Queen Elizabeth
14 high school students share the one book they think their entire generation should read
This CBC documentary explores why four women love writing crime fiction
How Jesse Thistle's deeply personal memoir 'happened by accident'
Anna Mehler Paperny has depression and has attempted suicide. So she wrote a book to help understand why
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Want to be a better writer? Be a ruthless editor
Why I Write
How Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist David Bezmozgis's immigrant background shapes his writing life
The bestselling Canadian books for the week of Oct. 12 to 19, 2019
Why Anar Ali wrote a novel about a Muslim family dealing with hard times in a new country
Brian Harvey went on a two-month sailing trip around Vancouver Island to better understand his late father
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The Next Chapter
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