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Samuel Wise is a poet and musician living and writing in Montreal's Plateau neighbourhood.
Rediscovering the roots in Felicia Mihali's 'A Ramshackle Home'
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Rediscovering the roots in Felicia Mihali’s “A Ramshackle Home”

January 18, 2024 Samuel Wise

A Ramshackle Home is the inaugural work in Mihali’s extensive literary repertoire. Judith Weisz Woodsworth’s translation of Le Pays du fromage (2002) breathes new life into this novel, which has undergone its third transformation, originally […]

Back in the Land of the Living: Love, Loneliness, and Self-Revolution in a City of Reinvention
Arts

Back in the Land of the Living: Love, Loneliness, and Self-Revolution in a City of Reinvention

January 6, 2024 Samuel Wise

Eva Crocker grew up in Ktaqmkuk (Newfoundland) and lives in Tiohti:áke (Montreal). Her debut novel All I Ask was long-listed for the 2020 Giller Prize and won the 2020 BMO Winterset Award. Her short story […]

Exploring Colleen René's debut book: Nothing in Truth Can Harm Us
Arts

Exploring Colleen René’s debut book: Nothing in Truth Can Harm Us

November 14, 2023 Samuel Wise

It is a reassuring thing, picking up the debut book of the latest Canadian novelist and discovering familiar themes with a passionate conviction that illuminates the truth that we cravenly seek in art. Colleen René […]

Andrew Steinmetz presents: Because - a novel that captures Montreal in the eighties through the eyes of two young musicians
Arts

Andrew Steinmetz presents: Because – a novel that captures Montreal in the eighties through the eyes of two young musicians

October 5, 2023 Samuel Wise

It’s 1981, one year after the shock of John Lennon’s murder. Disco is dead, punk is making its smashing entrance, and it is the big bang of bands like: The Talking Heads, R.E.M, Television, and […]

Sarah Gilbert Presents: Our Lady of Mile End - Stories of Resilience and Community in Montreal
Arts

Sarah Gilbert Presents: Our Lady of Mile End – Stories of Resilience and Community in Montreal

September 16, 2023 Samuel Wise

The latest novel of Sarah Gilbert, Our Lady of Mile End, is a collection of seventeen interlinked stories that speak to the fabled and romantic neighbourhood of Mile End, Montreal, and Canada. The warm-hearted and […]

Exploring the debut novel of Montreal author David Connor: Oh God the Sun Goes
Arts

Exploring the debut novel of Montreal author David Connor: Oh God the Sun Goes

August 23, 2023 Samuel Wise

The highly anticipated novel by David Connor, titled “Oh God the Sun Goes,” fearlessly defies all conventions for debut books. It possesses a profound absurdity, an emotionally resonating quality, and a distinct sense of originality. […]

Exploring the Eclectic Art-Punk Vibes of Montréal's Band La Sécurité
Music

Exploring the Eclectic Art-Punk Vibes of Montréal’s Band La Sécurité

August 17, 2023 Samuel Wise

Montréal female-led band La Sécurité highly-anticipated debut L.P. Stay safe! released this summer, it Is a spontaneous, danceable, and fun-packed ten-track album. Stay Safe! draws on a hodge-podge of various sources, often changing between punk, […]

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