Arbeiter Ring Publishing

ARP Releases First eBook

ARP has released a digital version of Leanne Simpson’s Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back. The book will be available from Apple, Kobo, Sony, Barnes and Noble, and will be made available to libraries through OverDrive in the coming months. We’re excited to enter the ebook market and welcome feedback on our digital titles as they are released. You can get a sample of the epub from most retailers, and we hope to make the book available for purchase on our website and Facebook page in the coming weeks.

The Listener Nominated for Book of the Year

David Lester’s graphic novel The Listener has been nominated for ForeWord Reviews’ Book Of The Year Award in the graphic novel category. Congratulations, David!

49th Shelf Blog Post by ARP Author Rohan Quinby

Rohan Quinby, author of Time and the Suburbs, has a blog post on The 49th Shelf titled “Littler boxes: Rohan Quinby on printing the city, & the impact of new technologies on urban planning & design.”

What are immigrants supposed to think?

Read an article about People’s Citizenship Guidein the Winnipeg Free Press by Mia Rabson here in which Candice Malcolm, Jason Kenney’s press secretary, calls the book a “catalogue of mouldy leftist myths.” Mission accomplished. :-)

David Lester in The Globe and Mail

Read an article about author David Lester and his graphic novel, The Listener, in the Globe and Mail.

Nine boxes of books arrived in the afternoon. David Lester hauled each heavy box up the stairs to his third-floor apartment in eastside Vancouver.

And there they sat. Hour after hour. He could not bring himself to open a single carton. The boxes contained copies of his graphic novel fresh off the presses.

“I waited many hours,” he said. “I could not bear the thought of it looking badly.”

The books were the result of a project started years earlier, a laborious process involving thousands of sketches and detailed final drawings in stark black and white, rendered in pencil and pen ink, watercolour and acrylic paint. After a long, intimate relationship with each drawing, the work had been sent off to the printers.

Too much ink and the images would be blobs. Too little and the book would be a washout. (click link above to read more)

Manitoba Book Award Nomination

We’re pleased to announce that Maple Leaf Rag by Kaie Kellough, with design by Relish Design, has been nominated for the Manuela Dias Book Design of the Year award. The awards will be handed out at the Manitoba Book Awards on April 17 at the Centre culturel franco-manitobain.

Interview with Kaie Kellough

Click here to read an interview with Kaie Kellough, author of Maple Leaf Rag, at Black Coffee Poet.

Interview with Todd Gordon

Click here to read an interview with Todd Gordon, author of Imperialist Canada on the blog On Journeying with those in Exile.

CBC Weekend Morning Show Interview with Jila Ghomeshi

Is it ever okay to say “ain’t”? A new book about the English language sparked many calls to our listener line. Jila Ghomeshi, Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manitoba, spoke with Kerän Sanders about her new book Grammar Matters. Click here to listen to the interview.