Dina Del Bucchia

Combining serial poetic technique with pop psychology how-to books, Dina Del Bucchia fashions punchy emotional guides in an age when illusory autonomy is achieved by "going viral" and through obsessive identification with celebrities, tracking two otters holding hands at the Vancouver Aquarium and watched by millions, prompting us to meditate upon the media frustum through which we construct emotional realities.

Coping with Emotions and Otters

These funny, strange stories are populated by people trying to find ways to relate to the real world. Sometimes they succeed and sometimes they fail, and sometimes they end up in a slapstick sex scene that climaxes with a broken table. The book embraces characters who are flawed, emotional, and who care too much about things that are ridiculous.

Don't Tell Me What to Do

So many things seem like a BIG DEAL: fashionable clothes, food trends for healthfulness and coolness, personal turmoils, what someone else just said, the ever-charged political landscape, Instagram posts, extinct megafauna, avocado toast ... the list could - and does - go on and on. Quirky, wry, sensitive, bitchy, and honest, It's a Big Deal! interrogates the ways we interpret and process the big deals of our twenty-first-century lives. Del Bucchia's poetic voice is unique, delivering sharp humour and candid sincerity.

Itas a Big Deal!

Anthony Bidulka

Neil Gupta went to the Middle East looking for antique carpets. He found something equally timeless: murder. When Neil is found stabbed to death in Dubai's spice souk, his distraught father wants revenge. He hires private investigator Russell Quant to catch the killer. In his greatest case to date, Quant goes undercover to match wits with a wily museum curator, shifty souk merchants, corrupt carpet experts, and the denizens of an underground club for "fabulous" men. From the flamboyant glitz of Dubai to the scorching sand dunes of Saudi Arabia, Quant risks his life as he wades further and further into the shadows cast by the desert sun. As Quant's spicy international adventure heats up, he learns a valuable lesson about love, life, and seizing the moment...before it's gone. On the verge of making the biggest personal decision of his life, Quant discovers that endings sometimes come before beginnings.

Blind Items

Daniel Zomparelli

In this quirky collection, two of poetry's sharpest observers examine real-world emotions through a Hollywood lens. These collaboratively written poems engage with romantic comedy films fromIt Happened One Night (1934) to Love, Actually (2003), through which the narrators examine the pop culture, celebrities, and narrative tropes associated with them.

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