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Finding Love in the Age of Trump
It’s called Maple Match and it’s the brainchild of a 25-year-old Texan named Joe Goldman whose site promises to “make dating great again. A new dating site matches Americans with anti-Trump sentiments with like-minded Canadians.
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Oh, Canada
“I love that Justin Trudeau has a literature degree,” says Heather O’Neill. “We need a literary imagination to run the country.” In a conversation with Lit Hub, Montreal-based writer Heather O’Neill, author of a new short story collection titled Daydreams of…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
The Canadian bookstore that discovered a hundred-year-old photo album has solved the mystery of the photos’ origin. They belonged to an Edmonton man born in 1919. San Francisco is a city filled with bookstores, and SF Weekly takes a look…
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Harry Potter in the Great White North
Yes, it’s true. A new Harry Potter-themed bar, The Lockhart, is officially open in Toronto. “It’s where would-be-wizards can come drink away their muggle sorrows,” TIME reported.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Mac DeMarco’s “Signature” Guitar
It was kind of nice to have something no one else had, something you couldn’t just pick up at any old big box store.
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A Colorblind Canadian Chronicler in Connecticut
At the Public Domain Review, Abigail Walthausen looks at the work of Arthur Heming, a Canadian colorblind painter who lived in an artist colony in Connecticut.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) The historical quagmire of a plantation tour. When your father’s dark side is really, really dark. Also, the dark side of the Nobel prize.…
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Daisy Duke and the Manosphere
The story goes, if you can dehumanize a population with a stereotype, there’s no need to share their fate.
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The Rumpus Interview with Miriam Toews
Miriam Toews talks about writing, mental illness, death with dignity laws, and the thin and sometimes troubling line between fiction and autobiography.
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The Rumpus Interview with Richard Ford
Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Richard Ford discusses his new book, Let Me Be Frank With You, how metaphor shapes our world, and why he doesn’t like the idea he has a battery to recharge.
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On Realizing You’re Not White
The paint was several layers thick, each new message or drawing layered on a chaotic background of the preceding scrawl….“It’s the chink hate wall,” he said. Kevin did not consider my Chinese ethnicity when he said this. For Maisonneuve, Kimberley Fu…
