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Watching brown women fall in love in print

There was a long period following high school when I didn’t read fiction for pleasure. University made reading seem like a chore while giving me less time to do it. At the same time, TV and film were going through a renaissance of representation for women of colour.   Recently, it dawned on me recently...

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Queen's alum talks first book, Different Beasts

With a new take on scary stories, Queen’s alum Joel McConvey, known professionally as J.R. McConvey, shows that people might be scarier than your classic monster. McConvey (ArtSci ’02) published his first book of short stories in September 2019. He spoke to The Journal about his writing process and...

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Ray Robertson's How to Die will improve your life

For Canadian author Ray Robertson, death isn’t something to fret about: it’s something to face head-on. On Feb. 13, Robertson will be at Kingston bookstore Novel Idea for the launch of his new book, How to Die: A Book About Being Alive. The idea for the book came about after Robertson finished a previous...

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Queen’s Commerce student publishes first book

Hailey Rodgers (Comm ’21) decided to follow her passion for writing, and published her first book, See Me, in December 2019. It all started when Creator Institute reached out to Rodgers via LinkedIn. Creator Institute is a company focused on helping writers become published authors. They reached out...

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Bounce House grapples with grief and motherly love

Jennica Harper’s Bounce House explores the highs and lows of mother and daughter relationships with sensitivity and focus. “The mother who is gone and the daughter who is here: those are the people it’s dedicated to,” Harper said in an interview with The Journal. Harper wrote poetry about her mother...

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Queen’s alum signs two-book deal for sci-fi series

When Liselle Sambury (ArtSci ’13) set out to pursue a career in linguistics, she never expected to end up with a marketing job in Northern Ontario with a book deal and a burgeoning fiction-writing career. With a deal for two books in hand, Sambury’s young adult (YA) teen witch book is set to be published...

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Former Journal editor talks mental health in memoir

Former Queen’s Journal editor in chief Anna Mehler Paperny’s debut memoir is a deep dive into depression and the way our society fails to address it effectively.   Her book, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person, guides the reader through her personal experience with depression,...

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Lee Maracle and others head to Kingston Writers’ Festival

This fall, Lee Maracle will be taking her latest book, My Conversations with Canadians, to the Kingston WritersFest, which runs from September 27 to October 1.  There, she’ll be appearing alongside authors from around the world, including Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon and celebrated Canadian...

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Lost in Austen after 200 years

On the 200th anniversary of Austen’s death, there is still no sign of her work fading to the background of the literary world. Dr. Robert Morrison, a professor of 19th century literature and culture at Queen’s, has taught Austen to students for the past 25 years. For him, the reason is simple: Jane...

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Let’s talk about Queen’s Reads

Queen’s Reads is an annual on-campus reading program which distributes a free book to anyone interested. Queen’s Reads Development Coordinator Carolyn Thompson discussed what the program means for interested students as well as detailing the reasons behind choosing The Break. Below is an e-mail interview...

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How a one question a day journal helped me improve myself

What if you could know exactly what you were wearing, eating or thinking about on this very day exactly five years ago? Well, I am about to find out. Recently, in the midst of procrastinating at my summer job, I found myself scrolling through my Facebook feed to come across an article on Buzzfeed...

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Q&A with David Mitchell

Last week, Kingston WritersFest hosted contemporary literary talent, including David Mitchell, a best-selling British author known for his works such as Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks. The five-day festival closed on Sunday night with the highly anticipated Robertson Davies Lecture featuring Mitchell....

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What we're reading: Mindy Kaling's Why Not Me?

Mindy Kaling’s latest book, Why Not Me? just landed the number one spot on The New York Times Best Sellers List, and it’s well-deserved. Following her first novel, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns), this book is a little hard to classify. Is it comedy? Satire? Memoir? A collection...

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Tales of troubled youth

It’s easy to hold an audience’s attention when the first thing you say involves high-school students joking about hiding the body of someone who’s face has been chewed off by a dog. Rob Brunet, accompanied by supportive fellow authors Liz Strange and Ryan Aldred, held a book launch for his first comedy-crime...

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Book review: And the Mountains Echoed

Khaled Hosseini’s third book, And the Mountains Echoed, is another tearjerker filled with heartbreaking emotions and the theme of redemption. Hosseini rose to fame with the phenomenal success of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, which depicted the war-torn terrain of a wounded Afghanistan,...

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Book vs. movie: The Great Gatsby

By Jessica Chong Blogs Editor F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, and Baz Luhrmann’s movie adaption can hardly be compared -– while entertaining and elaborate, the film doesn’t stay true to the text. Luhrmann, the film’s director and producer, caters to the pop culture appetites of...

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