  | | | | Canada Reads is back! This year, the great Canadian book debate is looking for one book to shift your perspective. The five panellists and the five books they choose to champion will be revealed on Jan. 25, 2023. The debates will take place March 27-30, 2023. Check out the 15 titles on the longlist now! | | |  | | | | This year's edition of the Giller Book Club features the authors of the 2022 longlist in conversation with notable writers, critics, past jury members and academics. The interviews will be streamed live and run from January until early July. There will be 14 interviews with approximately two book clubs per month. Get all the details now! | | |  | | | | After weeks of hype and days of leaks, readers got a chance to judge Prince Harry's memoir for themselves when it went on sale around the world on Tuesday, Jan. 10.
The book was billed by its publisher Penguin Random House as an account told with "raw, unflinching honesty" and filled with "insight, revelation, self-examination and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief." | | |  | | | | ChatGPT is artificial intelligence chatbot software capable of writing poems, college-level essays and even computer code. Experts say the software highlights how far AI has come in just a few years, while still spotlighting concerns around accuracy. | | | | |  | | | | Jessica Johns is a Vancouver-based writer, visual artist and member of Sucker Creek First Nation in Treaty 8 Territory in northern Alberta. Her debut novel, Bad Cree, is about an Indigenous character's attempt to reconnect with their land and culture. It’s horror-infused story centres around a young woman named Mackenzie who is haunted by terrifying nightmares and wracked with guilt about her sister Sabrina's untimely death. The book came out on Jan. 10. Read an excerpt now! | | |  | | | | Calgary writer Suzette Mayr's novel The Sleeping Car Porter takes readers on a ride — a train ride across 1920s Canada. It's a ride that's enthralled readers: The Sleeping Car Porter won the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada's biggest prize for fiction, and was one of the top 10 bestselling Canadian books in 2022 and a CBC Books pick for best fiction of 2022. Mayr spoke to CBC Books producer and The Next Chapter columnist Ryan B. Patrick about The Sleeping Car Porter. | | |  | | | | Amit Chaudhuri is regarded as one of India's finest contemporary writers. Chaudhuri's latest novel, Sojourn, is a fable-like tale both comic and unsettling. When an Indian writer arrives in Berlin to spend four months as a visiting professor, he finds the once divided city strangely familiar. Chaudhuri spoke to Eleanor Wachtel from his home in Kolkata, India, for the latest episode of Writers & Company. | | |  | | | | In Western Manitoba, not too far from the Saskatchewan border, lies two neighbouring communities divided by River Valley. These two communities have co-existed for about as long as Canada has, but over the past 150 years, they've grown separately and unequally. Valley of the Birdtail by Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson charts the trials and triumphs of these neighbouring communities through the lives of two residents and their families. They spoke to The Next Chapter's Shelagh Rogers about Valley of the Birdtail. | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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