September 2008

Cross-country gallivanting, NeWest style

Our Fall 2008 events season is already shaping up to be a cross-country affair, and we're rolling out the red carpet for authors in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal, and St. John's. Whether you're looking to rub elbows with an award-winning poet in a chic Montreal cafe, enjoy a glass of wine with Detective Lane in his hometown, or uncover the family mysteries of an award-winning CBC journalist, NeWest invites you to check out its top-class roster of trans-Canada literary celebrations.

Click here to find out who will be passing through in your area.

Listen in!

On July 12, Monica Kidd discussed her first non-fiction title, Any Other Woman (being released this October), with Angela Antle, host of CBC St. John's Weekend Arts Magazine. During the interview, Kidd discusses the lengths she went to in order to discover the mysteries of her family's past. To listen to the interview, click here.

On August 17, Angie Abdou explored the Olympics in her novel, The Bone Cage, with Sheryl MacKay on CBC Britsh Columbia's North by Northwest. Abdou is joined by her brother, Justin Abdou, a former Olympic wrestler and current coach at SFU. To listen to the interview, click here.

Also keep an ear on CBC Britsh Columbia's North by Northwest on September 13 for Laurie Ricou's interview about Salal: Listening for the Northwest Understory.

"This is a thoroughly enjoyable book. ... In this truly remarkable treatment of a plant by one who sought to know it truly, the subtopics span painting, poetry, language, ecology, sociology, economics, and business development. It captures the thoughts and ideas of people who live within an arm’s length of the salal patch, and of urban dwellers who are more attached to the internet than to the mycorrhizal net of salal in the forest floor." Click here for the full review.
- Canadian Literature 

Festival season is here!

William Neil Scott, author of Wonderfull, will join the ranks with Miriam Toews at this year's Wordfest: Banff-Calgary International Writers Festival! We couldn't think of a more deserving author than this Calgary native, whose first novel is currently shortlisted for the 2008 Sunburst Award. Last week we received even more good news regarding this prolific book -- but we can't let you in on the secret until October. In the meantime, find out what's Wonderfull at this year's Wordfest:

Calgary, AB: Alberta Bound Series
Art Gallery of Calgary
Wednesday, October 15th
Noon

Roy Innes, author of West End Murders, has been invited to Vancouver's Word on the Street festival on Sunday, September 28. Here he'll be reading from and discussing his second Inspector Coswell mystery in which a serial killer threatens Vancouver's gay community. Click here to listen to Roy Innes' interview on CBC's All Points West with Jo-Ann Roberts, where he discusses the making of West End Murders.

Featured September reading

Nightmarker by Meredith Quartermain

Trade Paperback / 112 pp / 5.5 x 8.5 / 978-1-897126-34-9

Preview before you buy! Get the full poetic experience and listen to Meredith Quartermain read from these Nightmarker pieces (click on the titles below to listen now):

Discovery at Sea 7
Bird City
Queen Dreams

There's an automatic impulse within the human species, the way its cities spring up all over the planet just as ant colonies do. Humans reproduce by way of towns and metropolises, replicating the bee-dances of the Romans, Greeks, and Babylonians, unconsciously invoking rituals of the past in tranceful reveries of the future.

In expeditions to City Hall, the police station, the sugar refinery, and the courthouse, Nightmarker explores the human city as an animal behaviour, a museum, and a dream of modernity. It also records the journey of Geo, an earth-geist, who struggles to comprehend humanity's siege of Earth while enabling us to examine the human condition, bound as it is by the drive to evolve, multiply, and simply exist.

Don't miss next month's edition of new@NEWEST for more exciting literary updates in October. Media copies of all our books are available on request. Please contact Tiffany Regaudie at marketing@newestpress.com or at (780) 432-9427 for your pick of great Canadian literature.

Bookseller Ordering Information:
In print (new releases marked in bold):
The Bone Cage by Angie Abdou ($22.95 / 1-897126-17-4 / 978-1-897126-17-2)
A Hummingbird Dance by Garry Ryan ($11.95 / 1-897126-31-X / 978-1-897126-31-8)
Listening to Trees by A.K. Hellum ($22.95 / 1-897126-34-4 / 978-1-897126-33-2)
Nightmarker by Meredith Quartermain ($14.95 / 1-897126-34-4 / 978-1-897126-33-6)
Salal: Listening for the Northwest Understory by Laurie Ricou ($34.95 / 1-897126-22-0 / 978-1-897126-22-6)
West End Murders by Roy Innes ($12.95 / 1-897126-27-1 / 978-1-897126-27-1)
Wonderfull by William Neil Scott ($22.95 / 1-897126-19-0 / 978-1-897126-19-6)
Available to order October/November 2008:
Any Other Woman by Monica Kidd ($19.95 / 1-897126-30-1 / 978-1-897126-30-1)
Canadian Literature at the Crossroads of Language and Culture by Barbara Godard ($36.95 / 1-897126-36-0 / 978-1-897126-36-3)
The Cardinal Divide by Stephen Legault ($22.95 / 1-897126-32-8 / 978-1-897126-32-5)

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