They got the beat

Connecting the thoughts

SHARON BUDNARCHUK, the retiring co-owner of Audreys

Canon busting

In her third book of poetry, Sonnet L’Abbé takes on the audacious challenge of overwriting the work of William Shakespeare

Community rules

Edmonton’s Audreys Books and the city’s newest indie, Glass Bookshop, share a passion for serving local readers

Don’t take it personal

How to reconcile writing you love with a writer you loathe

Living legends

Inhabit Media’s Louise Flaherty returns to the press she co-founded as the company races to record the oral stories of Inuit elders

Higher purpose

Canada’s newest academic publisher, Concordia University Press, prepares to release its first titles

Life drawing

A much-overdue retrospective of Canadian indie comics reveals a deep interest in personal storytelling

Home country

How a kitchen renovation became a magic portal into Candace Savage’s discovery of a little-known, shameful period in Canadian history

As seen on TV

Novelists Lynn Coady, Elan Mastai, and Susin Nielsen on what it’s like to move between writing for the screen and the page

Knife play

Adnan Khan’s debut novel presents a Muslim character who is more than a collection of stereotypes

Family matters

Lynn Coady’s latest novel is a showcase for her smooth writing and expertise at rendering characters

A Canadian horror story

Joanna Jolly’s book about Tina Fontaine hews to the conventions of true crime but seems unaware of its own blind spots

Be specific

Chris Banks’s latest is a complete system, while Jana Prikryl’s second collection gets lost in abstractions

Gone birding

From non-iction lessons about light to tender stories about intergenerational birdwatching, ornithology is big this fall BY SHANNON OZIRNY

The bloodthirsty librarian

Arthur Slade’s new series – featuring a vampire with a bookish day job – is relentlessly thrilling

Playing through the pain

Eric Walters and Kathy Kacer’s new novel is about the Holocaust, 9/11, and a middle-school musical theatre production

Weaving of time

A new book goes deep into the stories behind The Witness Blanket, Carey Newman’s monument to residential-school survivors