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posted Tuesday, May 18, 2021
A Canadian playwright’s rise to fame amid the terrors of the AIDS era. Brad Fraser suffered an impoverished and abusive childhood, living with his teenage parents in motel rooms and shacks on the side of the highway in Alberta and Northern British Columbia. He grew to be one of the most celebrated, and controversial, Canadian […]
posted Saturday, May 15, 2021
Repent Sinner BC Book Prize winner (Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes); Forest of Reading Evergreen Award finalist Ivan Coyote is one of North America’s preeminent storytellers and performers, and the author, co-author, or co-editor of eleven previous books, all but one of which have been published by Arsenal Pulp Press. Their most recent […]
posted Saturday, May 1, 2021
From small-town Alberta, Curtis comes to Edmonton to obtain a teaching degree. There he forms a close friendship with his elderly, blind Aunt Harriet, considered a family pariah due to her eccentric enthusiasm for a lost world of artists and musicians. When Curtis begins reading aloud to Harriet the diary her intended husband Phillip kept […]
posted Friday, April 23, 2021
Anvil Press was established in 1988 to publish “subTerrain” magazine. The desire among those involved at the time was to eventually publish a line of literary titles—books from new, virtually unknown authors who were starting to make a name for themselves on the Canadian literary scene. The publishing philosophy at Anvil remains uncompromised: “To discover, […]
posted Wednesday, April 21, 2021
In Hollywood Eden, acclaimed music journalist Joel Selvin tells the story of a group of young artists and musicians who came together at the dawn of the 1960s to create the lasting myth of the California dream, from the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean, to the Byrds and the Mamas & the Papas. From […]
posted Sunday, April 4, 2021
From Daniel MacIvor, the acclaimed playwright behind A Beautiful View, The Best Brothers, and This is What Happens Next, comes a moving portrait about what we choose to forget and how we decide to move on. In New Magic Valley Fun Town, Cape Bretoner Dougie hasn’t seen his childhood best friend Allen in thirty years. […]
posted Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Andrew C. Youngson’s ‘The Memory Project: A Sci-Fi Mystery Novel´ embroils readers deep in the world of Weavers – rare telepathic humans who can experience the memories of others through touch. It’s a compelling story that challenges gender stereotypes, champions LGBTQ+ rights and explores how the past and present can so easily fold in on […]
posted Sunday, March 28, 2021
Our Story: Coming out in the time of HIV and AIDS is the story of friendship, love, loss, and drag told with humour and compassion. In 1977, the author, then a naïve young man, escapes his pulp and paper mill town in northern New Brunswick and goes in search of his gay self. After two […]
posted Saturday, March 27, 2021
Strobing lights and dark rooms; throbbing house and drag queens on counters; first kisses, last call: the gay bar has long been a place of solidarity and sexual expression—whatever your scene, whoever you’re seeking. But in urban centers around the world, they are closing, a cultural demolition that has Jeremy Atherton Lin wondering: What was the gay bar? […]
posted Thursday, March 25, 2021
Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Beate Haas, who defected from East Germany as a child, is notified that her parents’ abandoned mansion is available for her to reclaim. Newly divorced and eager to escape her bleak life in upstate New York, where she moved as an adult, she arrives with her two […]
