Guernica Editions

Italian-Canadian authors: Antonio D'Alfonso is writing a major piece on Italian-Canadians writers for Italy. Please send him info on your bios and bibliographies, and if possible a copy of your works. Please email antoniodalfonso@sympatico.ca with the subject line "Italian-Canadian Project."

https://antoniodalfonso.com

Adria Bernardi has been awarded the 2021 FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize by Joyelle McSweeney for her novel, Benefit Street. The novel will be published by The University of Alabama Press in 2022.

https://www.fc2.org/2021-catherine-doctorow-innovative-fiction-contest-winner-2/

Congratulations to S. Montana Katz for Side Effects being named a finalist in the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Independent Publishing!

http://www.hofferaward.com/Eric-Hoffer-Award-category-finalists.html#.YJ6mTS2z0Us

A book narrated by a cheeky vegan dog – a real dog – and her take on how humans treat animals and how that connects with disease, ecocide and social injustice. The charming vegan dog sharing her dog’s-eye view on human exploitation of animals is Dori. She’s a white boxer and her partner in book authoring and hauntingly effective truth telling is eco-feminist, animal-rights activist and vegan Margaret (Meg) Hurley. This book has to be read to truly do it justice. Autobiography, history, and science are woven into Dori’s adventures to reveal and explain the destructive effects of eating animal flesh and secretions on humans and animals, and on the planet. Dori keeps her human family in line, making them question and assess their relationships with animals. The style of writing using idiosyncratic broken sentences and a cross-genre stream-of-consciousness narrative takes the reader along for a journey that will impart brutal, horrific truths and then give timely relief before you turn away as Dori herself bounds off to her next adventure or simply some necessary sniffing and snoozing. Dori shines a spotlight on human behaviour in a way that is ironic, quirky, funny, sad, maddening, and deadly relevant. Today her human Meg, shares with us more of the inner life of her gorgeous vegan dogs (it’s not just Dori!), and why she felt compelled to take such a unique approach in sharing the urgent message that we are running out of time to take personal action and align our daily actions with our beliefs and Live Vegan. In this conversation we cover: How to get across to the general public, how dire the situation is. Dori is one of the select animals non-vegan humans have time for – let’s speak about Carnism. Meg and her husband transitioned the dogs to a plant-based diet in collaboration with their vet. Othering, how terms like “they” keep groups oppressed. Vegan and Non-vegan relationships with loved ones.

https://strongbodygreenplanet.com/the-dog-who-ate-the-vegetable-garden-and-helped-save-the-planet-with-meg-hurley/

"Novelist John Domini hails from a famiglia of brave Neapolitans, men who defied Nazi occupiers and the Allied Command and the Camorra. It is a different species of courage, yet coraggio nonetheless, that Domini displays in tackling the genre of memoir in which a benighted adult son probes his father’s European haunts to mine buried war exploits. That Vincenzo Vicedomini’s hometown is Naples, already immortalized in the popular American consciousness by Elena Ferrante and Vittorio De Sica, demands an excavator worthy of Pompeii. Fortunately, Domini brings the tools of a master craftsman and an astonishing depth of knowledge to his quarry in The Archeology of a Good Ragù, a chronicle stark in its candor and savory in its lore." Follow the link for the full review by Jacob M. Appel.

https://brooklynrail.org/2021/05/books/Dominis-Dominions

Jaya Mootoo speaks to her returning guests, Authors Glenn Carley and Mark Creedon about their newest literary works. Glenn Carley has written a new Urban Opera book, a follow up to his novel "Polenta at Midnight'', called "Il Vagabondo: An Urban Opera Book''. This outstanding literary premise allows readers to immerse themselves in the story and words by not only reading the book, but by singing it too! "Il Vagabondo: An Urban Opera Book" and "Polenta at Midnight" can be purchased online or at Forester's Book Garden in Bolton. Mark Creedon's new work is a tale he heard years ago that he now turned into a short story. Originally written before his novel "Caught Between Two Devils", Mark's short story "Testosterone in Iroquois Falls" is the adventures of a young man in Northern Ontario. "Testosterone in Iroquois Falls" is available on May 24 2021 on www.fictionontheweb.co.uk.

https://www.spreaker.com/user/sauga960am/peel-matters-may-5-2021