Media Hits: THE NOTEBOOK, A WAY TO BE HAPPY, THE PAGES OF THE SEA, and more!
IN THE NEWS
The Notebook by Roland Allen (Sep 3, 2024) was reviewed in the New York Times on November 2! The review is available to read online here.
Wilson Wong writes,
“The book is a revealing document of a relationship so intimate as to be sacred: that of the writer and the page. It’s a reminder that note-taking is an act of noticing, of being present and showing up to the blank paper, again and again, and discovering what may arise there.”
Get The Notebook here.
A Way to Be Happy by Caroline Adderson (Sep 10, 2024) was reviewed on The Longest Chapter on October 31, and you can read it in full here.
NPR’s Kassie Rose writes,
“It’s difficult to make happiness interesting. Caroline Adderson, however, succeeds with stylish skill. She creates sympathetic characters struggling with inner complexities—what it feels like to be a disappointment, or to not be believed, or to lead a passionless life; always offering, though, an encounter providing a respite from loneliness or isolation.”
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Anne Hawk, author of The Pages of the Sea (Sep 17, 2024), was interviewed on The Conversation podcast (here) on October 21, and also talked about her debut novel on the Bookspo podcast (here) on October 16.
Grab The Pages of the Sea here!
Kev Lambert, author of May Our Joy Endure (trans. Donald Winkler, Sep 3, 2024), was profiled in the Globe and Mail by Emily Donaldson on October 25! You can read the full feature here.
Donaldson calls Lambert,
“[A] literary wunderkind.”
May Our Joy Endure was also reviewed in the Montreal Review of Books on October 30. Check out the full review here.
Marisa Grizenko writes,
“Like Bruegel and Blais, Lambert uses a large cast of characters to depict society’s complexities. His gaze is oceanic, homing in on individuals and zooming out to the systems within which they operate.”
Get May Our Joy Endure here!
Mark Kingwell, author of Question Authority (Nov 5, 2024), was interviewed on the Canadaland podcast on October 28. Listen to the full episode here.
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A Case of Matricide by Graeme Macrae Burnet (Nov 12, 2024) was reviewed in the Los Angeles Times as part of their list of “10 books to add to your reading list in November.” The article was published online on November 1, and you can read it here.
Bethanne Patrick writes,
“Burnet’s trilogy concludes with a mystery about what we put up with in mystery narratives . . . It’s smart, quirky and fun.”
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SETH’S CHRISTMAS GHOST STORIES 2024
Seth’s Christmas Ghost Stories (Oct 29, 2024) were featured on the Total Christmas Podcast on October 26, and you can listed to the segment (starting at 16:00) here.
Host Jack Ford calls the trio,
“Delightful little books . . . it’s something that people that love Christmas might enjoy, reviving that old tradition of Christmas ghost stories.”
Podolo, one of this year’s three stories, was read in full on the Christmas Past Podcast by Brian Earl. You can listen to the full episode here.
Grab all three Seth’s Christmas Ghost Stories here!
