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NOW's Best Emerging Author: Lauren Kirshner

Submitted by clelia on November 2, 2009 - 1:59pm
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NOW's Best Emerging Author: Lauren Kirshner

Lauren Kirshner, author of Where We Have To Go (McClelland & Stewart) and former Open Book writer in residence, has been named Best Emerging Author by NOW Magazine in their Best of Toronto list. They write about her debut novel, "[Kirshner] shows terrific powers of observation as she tracks her protagonist Lucy’s high school years, especially in a knockout section about her incarceration in a house for the 'criminally thin.' Kirshner’s funny, too. More, please." Congratulations Lauren!

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Submitted by clelia on February 19, 2010 - 1:40pm

Blog Recommendation: The Keepin' it Real Book Club

We're new fans of The Keepin' it Real Book Club. It's a terrific blog of "Bookish meanderings, rants and raves from book nerds gone digital." It started with a group of Queen's University students making it their mission to bring "to bring unabashed enthusiasm and personality" to their English lit classes, and soon the group formed a book club. Instead of all members reading the same book and discussing it, the book club was a forum for the friends to "present a book and talk about why it was wonderful." (Read the history of KIRBC here.) With university over, the club has moved online, and it's a great place to read a lot of smart book reviews.

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