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Chinatown — good things are being said about you
Read more: Chinatown — good things are being said about youThe first place that bilingual fortune cookies were made was in Montréal’s Chinatown in the 1960s … or so I learned while watching the film, Big Fight in Little Chinatown (directed by Karen Cho, 2022). The stories that are told in the film take place in Montréal, Toronto, Vancouver and New York City. Different cities,…
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my small press love letter
Read more: my small press love letterPeople say that nothing is like your first love. I would agree. I can tell you — without a moment’s hesitation — that small press literary publishing was a first love of my life, my professional life. The story goes something like this … I started volunteering and then working in publishing at Anvil Press…
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shine on, Moonshine
Read more: shine on, MoonshineMoonshine. Their story began with Pierre Kwenders and Hervé Kalongo in 2014, as a house party following a full moon: “The essence of Moonshine came out of parties we used to throw in our kitchens … one of the reasons we started Moonshine [was] to share that with more people who felt like us, and…