Category: Explore Book Launches

On Tuesday, February 7 at 6pm, join Massy Arts Society, Massy Books and Coach House Books for the launch of Falling Hour by Geoffrey D. Morrison. The Mezzanine meets Ducks, Newburyport in this meandering and captivating debut novel.  Morrison will be joined by co-reader Kristjana Gunnars, who will read from The Scent of Light, her collection of five autofiction novellas. Both…

On Wednesday, February 22nd at 6pm PST/7pm CST, join Massy Arts Society, Massy Books and University of Regina Press for the virtual launch of Solomon Ratt’s kâ-pî-isi-kiskisiyân / The Way I Remember. Through a blend of languages and a combination of âcimisowin (autobiographical stories) and âcathôhkîwina (traditional tales), this unique memoir uses a particular Cree…

On Thursday, January 26 at 7pm, join Massy Arts Society, Massy Books and Vancouver Public Library for Conversations with Khahtsahlano: As We Knew Him. One of the most significant books on local history that’s been out of print for more than 60 years, Conversations with Khahtsahlano 1932-1954, contains twenty-two years of conversations between Sḵwx̱uwú7mesh Chief X̱ats’alanexw, a.k.a. Chief…

Tuesday, January 24 at 6pm, join Massy Arts Society Massy Books, Talonbooks, Book*hug and Coffee House Press for An Anti-Guide To Foreplay. A double launch featuring two dissertations on desire: Participation by Anna Moschovakis and #postdildo by Danielle LaFrance. From suspicion to sexual objects, LaFrance and Moschovakis offer a pleasure-filled evening of reading from their…

Join Massy Arts Society, Massy Books and Birlinn Ltd for the launch of Alycia Pirmohamed’s debut collection, Another Way to Split Water. This lyrical exploration offers stories told and retold, how ancestral memory reforms and transforms and the imagined and reimagined. Joined by Isabella Wang, author of Pebble Swing (Nightwood Editions) and poet ALHS, the three will offer meditations and…

Massy Arts Society presents Rachel Rose, author of the Giller-longlisted story collection, The Octopus Has Three Hearts (Douglas & McIntyre), and Maria Reva, author of Good Citizens Need Not Fear (Knopf Canada), in conversation with Renée Sarojini Saklikar, author of Bramah and the Beggar Boy (Nightwood Editions), for a virtual event in celebration of their…

This co-presentation with Metonymy Press and Elliott Bay Book Company celebrates  of the launch of Callum Angus’ debut short story collection, A Natural History of Transition. The author is joined by special guests Hazel Jane Plante and Corinne Manning. A Natural History of Transition is a collection of short stories that disrupts the notion that trans people…

Author Keith Maillard is hosted by Lynne Quarmby and joined by special guests Andrea Bennett, Edward Carson, Lee Shedden and Debbie Willis for the launch of ‘The Bridge’, published by Freehand Books. About the Bridge: As a child, Keith Maillard asked his mother and grandmother, over and over again, “Am I a boy, or am…

Canada Research Chair in Religion, Law and Social Justice Ayesha S. Chaudhry in conversation with Sarah Munawar. They discuss writing in community, decentering whiteness in storytelling, embodiment, and more. About ‘The Colour of God’: This is the story of a child raised in Canada by parents who embraced a puritanical version of Islam to shield…