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Pete Soucy

Pete Soucy

Snook has been an entertainer and comic commentator in Newfoundland and Labrador for 30 years. His first book is How Ya Gettin' On? Snook Writes About Stuff.

#84 Fall 2017, Columns, Editions, First Person October 27, 2017 October 27, 2017

Stuff About Books

Snook’s journey from Corner Boy to publishing more books than his high school principal

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While the weather's warm and the days are long, we are strong proponents of reading outside. Here are 18 new books to take with you to your favourite patio, beach, piece of grass or stretch of sidewalk:

Boulder Publications Breakwater Books Ltd. Goose Lane Editions Nimbus Publishing and Vagrant Press HarperCollins Canada Gaspereau Press ¶ Printers & Publishers Institute of Island Studies Flanker Press Ltd. Pottersfield Press Formac Publishing Running the Goat, Books & Broadsides MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.

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Short Fiction: Ben Tucker’s Truck Azzo Rezori Boulder Publications Retired CBC Newfoundland journalist Azzo Rezori calls himself a professional observer, and that skill is apparent here not only in the everyday detail, but the inner selves of his characters as they tackle religion, romance, family...
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"You don’t even have to set aside extended holiday time to enjoy what the region has to offer because there are so many great day trips available."

With the help of books from Goose Lane Editions, Breakwater Books Ltd. and Formac Publishing, Philip Moscovitch takes advantage of summer weather while he can in one of the most beautiful places on Earth: Atlantic Canada.

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Home for the (Summer) Holidays – Atlantic Books Today

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In the 20 years we’ve lived in Nova Scotia, my family has almost never left Atlantic Canada for a summer holiday. Why would we? Summer is short and often gorgeous and one of the beautiful things about the region is the variety of landscapes and many types of experiences available so close by. One ...
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We are so saddened to hear about the death of Elder Douglas Knockwood, who we featured in a piece by Daniel Paul in our spring issue, and who just published his memoir with Fernwood Publishing. There are so many accounts from the Mi'kmaq and other communities of his gentle strength. He was a healer who helped improve many lives. Rest in peace, Doug. Our thoughts are with your wife, children, stepchildren, grandchildren, great grandchildren, great- great grandchildren, nieces and nephews. ...

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Readers will find a noteworthy companion to Ted Rutland's Displacing Blackness (University of Toronto Press) in There’s Something In the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities (Fernwood Publishing). The text by Dalhousie University School of Nursing professor Ingrid Waldron (who is African-Canadian) offers strategies to combat the polluting and poisoning industries (dumps, pulp mills, sewage “treatment” plants, pipelines, et cetera) routinely found within spitting distance of minority populations throughout Canada.

In this essay, Evelyn White looks at a disturbing history of racist planning through the lens of two new books on the subject, and concludes with an important PSA (and song) from none other than Aretha Franklin.

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Race and Place: How Racism Shapes Our Cities – Atlantic Books Today

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Africville residents were moved using City of Halifax dump trucks. Ted Grant – Library and Archives Canada.Now hailed as a vibrant artists colony, Salt Spring Island, BC counts as its first permanent residents a group of free Blacks from California who settled the landscape in the late 1850s. Stre...
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Sharing a press release announcing the winners of the New Brunswick Book Awards - congrats to all!

Saint John (NB) - The Fiddlehead: Atlantic Canada's International Literary Journal and the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick announced the winners for the third annual New Brunswick Book Awards at a celebration on Friday June 8, at the Lily Lake Pavilion in Saint John.

The winners are as follows:

The Mrs. Dunster's Award for Fiction

Peter J. Clair, Tobique, Taapoategl & Pallet: A Mi’Kmaq Journey of Loss and Survival
Publisher: Chapel Street Editions

Alice Kitts Memorial Award for Excellence in Children’s Writing

Odette Barr, Petit-Cap, Colleen Landry, Moncton, and Beth Weatherbee, Baie Verte, Take off to Tantramar
Publisher: Chocolate River Publishing

The Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize

Allan Cooper, Riverview, Everything We’ve Loved Comes Back to Find Us
Publisher: Gaspereau Press ¶ Printers & Publishers

Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction

Rachel Bryant, Saint John, The Homing Place
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press

The book awards program represents a partnership between Canada’s oldest literary magazine, The Fiddlehead, which has nurtured New Brunswick's literary culture for 70 years, and the Writers’ Federation, which for 30 years has passionately supported the development of home-grown writers at all stages of development.

The competition is open to traditionally published and self-published authors who have lived in the province for three of the last five years, including the award year (2017). The competition for the fourth annual awards will open in November. ...

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