12 March 2018
Linda Leith in conversation with Jennifer Quist, whose third novel, The Apocalypse of Morgan Turner, is published this month. LLP also published its award-winning precedessors, Love Letters of the Angels of Death (2013) and Sistering (2015).
9 March 2018
This excerpt from H. Nigel Thomas's essay on Afro-Caribbean immigrant existence in Toronto was originally published in Confluences 2: Essays on the New Canadian Literature, edited by Nurjehan Aziz. It appears on Salon .ll. by kind permission of Mawenzi House.
17 February 2018
Phillip Ernest elaborates on his life in Toronto, the city to which he fled at the age of fifteen, on his first university studies there when he was thirty, and on the writing of the Sanskrit vampire story entited The Vetala that LLP publishes on March 10th.
12 February 2018
Phillip Ernest lived on Toronto’s skid row until he was twenty-eight. He learned Sanskrit from the book Teach Yourself Sanskrit, and later earned a BA in South Asian Studies from the University of Toronto and a PhD in Sanskrit from Cambridge University. The Vetala is his first novel.
24 January 2018
Contributing editor Leigh Kinch-Pedrosa chats with author Jonah Campbell.
23 January 2018
"A pig’s head, in case you are not aware, has eyes and eyelashes and teeth and a nose—all the makings of a face."
An excerpt from Jonah Campbell's Eaten Back to Life (Invisible Publishing, 2017).
17 January 2018
A Long Journey to Mercy: Joy Kogawa’s Gently to Nagasaki by Irene Sywenky, was originally published in Confluences 2: Essays on the New Canadian Literature. It appears on Salon .ll. by kind permission of Mawenzi House. Joy Kogawa's most recent work, Gently to Nagasaki (2016), is a memoir that connects with many of the themes she has developed in her earlier books on Japanese-Canadians.
23 December 2017
"She had eyes that were kind of sleepy like a cat’s eyes, but precisely in the way that a cat’s eyes can be at once sleepy and burningly, terrifically alive." An excerpt from Jonah Campbell's Eaten Back to Life (Invisible Publishing, 2017).
11 December 2017
Part II of the text of a talk prepared for a panel on Publishing Literature in Translation at the Concordia University colloquium Traduire Arabe on Thursday, December 7, 2017.
Author Linda Leith with journalist Akim Kermiche.
10 December 2017
Part I of the text of a talk prepared for a panel on Publishing Literature in Translation at the Concordia University colloquium Traduire Arabe on Thursday, December 7, 2017.
7 December 2017
I had read Andrew Lang’s collections of fairy tales as a child and later as an adult. In university I also read David Hume’s philosophy, which provided a pathway out of dingles and a ladder out of wells of wishful thinking. Through fantasy or fact, the geography of dramatic basalt rock formations, covered in green, obviously came into being through the forces of eons for the sole purpose of providing dancing venues under moonlight and feeding our insatiable need for stories.
6 December 2017
“I tell you. I fell in love with a tree. I couldn’t not. It was in blossom. It was a day like other days and I was on my way to work, walking the same way as usual between our house and the town” (Ali Smith).
Well, I fell in love with Scotland. I couldn’t not, although flowering trees had little to do with it.
1 December 2017
My father died twenty years ago and I cannot listen to Leonard Cohen without mourning him. As I write, I’m listening to his copy of Cohen’s album Songs from a Room. “What is a saint?” Cohen asks in Beautiful Losers, and he answers himself, “I think it has something to do with the energy of love.”
24 November 2017
A window into the micro-culture of queer teens and twenty-somethings who live, work, struggle, play, perform, and experiment in Montreal and Toronto.
16 November 2017
This is when book promotion becomes an art -- in the hands of artists. Turning Mavis Gallant's play into a movie. 
15 November 2017
An excerpt from Julia Lin's rare, humane, and personal account of the little known histories of Manchukuo and Taiwanese immigration to North America.
This excerpt from Shadows of the Crimson Sun appears by kind permission of Mawenzi House.
28 September 2017
Where is the line between the person that I am IRL (in real life) and the image of myself that I have curated on the Internet? How am I going to pay my bills?
These are the questions asked in Guillaume Morisette’s second novel The Original Face (Véhicule Press).
12 August 2017
This is award-winning novelist Jennifer Quist's first published translation from Chinese. The text of the story is below, followed by Jenn's comments.
12 August 2017
Linda Leith Publishing has published three of Gazette cartoonist Terry Mosher's books -- Was It Good For You? (2012), Caricature Cartoon Canada (ed. Terry Mosher, 2012), and The Wrecking Ball (2014). His most recent book is From Trudeau to Trudeau: Fifty Years of Aislin Cartoons (2017).
Linda Leith was recently approached for a letter supporting Terry's nomination for a major award; this is that letter.
21 July 2017
ICAROS: A VISION, the internationally acclaimed film by Leonor Caraballo & Matteo Norzi, produced by Abou Farman, will be screening in Canada, starting in Vancouver on July 28th, where it opens for a week-long run at Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancity Theatre, and then in Montreal as part of Montreal First People's Festival Présence autochthone on August 7th, Cinéma du Parc, 7 p.m.
13 July 2017
It’s 1974, a coup has just installed a repressive military regime in Ethiopia. A family of five undertakes to escape from Addis Ababa to Djibouti, cross the brutal Danakil Desert on foot. Beth Gebreyohannes, a young girl at the time, describes that grim, perilous journey. This excerpt from Fire Walkers appears by kind permission of Mawenzi House.