Brunswick Books

05/20/2022

TODAY! Please share widely! Hello friends! is holding a pop up book sale at our office again today from 12-4pm.

Lots of fantastic and great deals to be had.

14 Afton Avenue is in the heart of Little Portugal .

Weather permitting.



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05/18/2022

Hello friends! is holding a pop up book sale at our office from 12-4pm on Thursday May 19th and 12-4pm on Friday May 20th. Lots of fantastic books and great deals to be had.

14 Afton Avenue is in the heart of Little Portugal .

Weather permitting but the forecast looks beautiful!

Fernwood Publishing Roseway Publishing Arbeiter Ring Publishing Pluto Press Demeter Press Inanna Publications Anvil Press Black Rose Books Véhicule Press Memorial University Press University of Manitoba Press University of Regina Press Wilfrid Laurier University Press Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa - University of Ottawa Press Monthly Review NYU Press Johns Hopkins University Press New Society Publishers Political Animal Press

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05/02/2022

'Looking back on 1968, I think about the testing of the first intercontinental nuclear missile carrying multiple warheads and how the ultimate end must have been expected. The missile brings to mind the words “heavy metal thunder” in Steppenwolf’s song Born to Be Wild, which hit the charts simultaneously in Canada and the United States that year. The band had both Canadian and American members. I know this sounds like a distortion of history, but I grew up as a metal kid in the 1980s. Heavy metal radiated from the late 1960s bands, such as Rush, Deep Purple, and Black Sabbath. What I found in one of the latest Mercury Series books, "1968 in Canada: A Year and Its Legacies" [Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa - University of Ottawa Press], is no less electrifying.'

Your Museum. Your Stories.

05/01/2022

Congratulations to the finalists for the 2022 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, including Sharon Robart-Johnson for "Jude and Diana" (Roseway Publishing / Fernwood Publishing)!

05/01/2022

'In writing this book, I am saying this is what trauma can be like, it can stay hidden and then surprise you and then you realize a part of you had been looking at the world from that dark place.'
49th Shelf spoke to about her powerful , "Scratching River" (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)

https://49thshelf.com/.../22/The-Chat-with-Michelle-Porter

Today on the Chat, we speak to Michelle Porter. Her powerful memoir, Scratching River, is now out with WLU Press.

04/30/2022

'None of this system of social service is about our welfare. We are not meant to fare well.'

Taking on social assistance via the experiences of twenty Black women, Idil Abdillahi lays bare the illusion of state support, exposing the “welfare” system’s so-called failures as built, and indeed deliberately implemented systemic functions of surveillance and dehumanization as carried out through historically ubiquitous, though often hidden, state and cultural trajectories.

A timely and crucial contribution to the discourse around abolition, Abdillahi’s "Black Women Under State" [Arbeiter Ring Publishing] makes explicit the ways in which social systems including social assistance are made opaque so that we don’t connect them to the carceral state; this concept of carceral care talks to abolition as the broad concept that it is: a fully-embraced understanding that abolition dismantles systems of policing that extend beyond the institution we call the police.

“None of this system of social service is about our welfare. We are not meant to fare well.”

Taking on social assistance via the experiences of twenty Black women, Idil Abdillahi lays bare the illusion of state support, exposing the “welfare” system’s so-called failures as built, and indeed deliberately implemented systemic functions of surveillance and dehumanization as carried out through historically ubiquitous, though often hidden, state and cultural trajectories.

A timely and crucial contribution to the discourse around abolition, Abdillahi’s Black Women Under State makes explicit the ways in which social systems including social assistance are made opaque so that we don’t connect them to the carceral state; this concept of carceral care talks to abolition as the broad concept that it is: a fully-embraced understanding that abolition dismantles systems of policing that extend beyond the institution we call the police.

04/30/2022

Congratulations to the authors of "Indigenous Women and Street Gangs" (University of Alberta Press)! The book has been shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Awards Non-Fiction Award: Amber, Bev, Chantel, Jazmyne, Faith, Jorgina and Robert Henry!

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Check out all the shortlisted authors and titles!
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Congratulations to the authors of INDIGENOUS WOMEN AND STREET GANGS for being shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Awards Non-Fiction Award: Amber, Bev, Chantel, Jazmyne, Faith, Jorgina and Robert Henry.
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It's a fine list of authors and titles!
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04/28/2022

Releasing soon from Black Rose Books! "From the Ground Up : Essays on Grassroots Democracy, 2nd edition" edited by George Benello

Should today's activists aim for more than reformist changes in the policies and personnel of giant corporations and the government? In this collection of classic essays, C. George Benello persuasively argues that modern so­cial movements need to rise to the challenge of spearheading a radical re­organization of society based on the principles of decentralization, community control, and participatory democracy.

Integrating some of the best of New Left thought and practice with more recent populist and Green perspectives, Benello's essays and the commentaries of Harry Boyte, Steve Chase, Walda Katz-Fishman, Jane Mansbridge, Chuck Turner, and other major activists from the 1960's offer important insights for today's new generation of practical utopians. Originally published in 1993, this revised and updated edition also includes "The New Movement and its Theory of Organization," a discussion by David Wieck, Todd Gitlin, George Woodcock, J. F. Conway, and Joan Renold.

Should today's activists aim for more than reformist changes in the policies and personnel of giant corporations and the government? In this collection of classic essays, C. George Benello persuasively argues that modern so­cial movements need to rise to the challenge of spearheading a radical re­...

04/28/2022

New review of "Queasy: A Wannabe Writer’s Bumpy Journey Through England in the 70s" by Madeline Sonik (Anvil Press) c/o The Vancouver Sun!

Victoria-based Madeline Sonik recalls her younger self — chain-smoking, bitter and heart-achingly naive — with a stylish mixture of tenderness and astonishment

Victoria-based Madeline Sonik recalls her younger self with a stylish mixture of tenderness and astonishment.

04/27/2022

TOMORROW (April 28)! Join authors and editors of "Muskrat Falls: How a Mega Dam Became a Predatory Formation" (Memorial University Press) for a roundtable discussion hosted by the Nexus Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences Research and the L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History.

Our very last event of the winter semester!

Panel Discussion of Muskrat Falls: How a Mega-Dam Became a Predatory Formation

April 28th, 12:30-2 PM NL Time (11-12:30 EST)
Video conference (register below)

Join authors and editors of the new, Memorial University Press, volume, Muskrat Falls: How a Mega Dam Became a Predatory Formation, for a roundtable discussion of key themes from the book. Panelist will discuss themes such as Indigenous resistance, the role of journalism in the dam protests, methylmercury contamination, and the process of putting together this important volume. Our panelists include

Neria Aylward, Solidarity with Labrador Land Protectors
Justin Brake, Journalist
Ryan Calder, Virginia State University
Stephen Crocker, Memorial University
Lisa Moore, Memorial University
Jessica Penney, University of Glasgow

The panel will feature short presentations from the authors, and lots of time for discussion.

The panel is hosted by the Nexus Centre for Humanities and Social Science Research (at Memorial University), and the L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History (at McMaster University)

To Register: https://mun.webex.com/mun/j.php?RGID=rf8ab9fc03dbefa0101579fd39be84362

Poster background is a series of block lines in greys and greens. ON the right hand side of the poster is an image of the book cover for Muskrat Falls: How a Mega Project Became a Predatory Formation. The cover features three people walking towards a dam, with a threatening dark grey sky. The poster text reads: Book Panel Discussion. Muskrat Falls: How a Mega Dam Became a Predatory Formation. Meet the Authors: Neria Aylward, Solidarity with Labrador Land Protectors, Justin Brake, Journalist; Ryan Calder, Virginia State University; Stephen Crocker, Memorial University; Lisa Moore, Memorial. University; Jessica Penney, University of Glasgow. WHERE: online via video link. WHEN: April 28th, 12:30-2 PM NL Time (11- 12:30 EST). WHAT: a roundtable where authors offer short reflections with time for questions. TO REGISTER: Contact John Sandlos ([email protected]). HOSTED BY: The Nexus Centre for Humanities and Social Science Research, Memorial University, and the L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History, McMaster University. The poster also includes logos for both the Nexus Centre and the Wilson Institute for Canadian Studies.

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