Anthropocene: The Human Epoch is Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier and Edward Burtynsky’s third collaboration, following Manufactured Landscapes (2006) and Watermark (2013). Exploring humankind’s impact on the planet in visually stunning but often devastating portraits, The Anthropocene Project spans a . . .
When Eden Robinson first started writing, she thought grim and gritty stories were the key to being taken seriously. In this episode of Brick Podcast, she reflects on how, amidst gluten intolerance and hot flashes, goofiness has crept back into . . .
Earlier this month, our correspondent Rachel Gerry chatted with Ian Donker, owner of Toronto’s Book City, about literary localism, selling what you love, and more. Read their conversation below.
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Earlier this month, our East Coast correspondent, Rachel Gerry, caught up with Atlantic News owner Michele Gerard to talk about independent publishing, lit-mag love, and more. Read a transcription of their conversation below.
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On a recent visit to New York City, Brick’s Kristen Scott took a short stroll down Prince Street in Lower Manhattan to the buzzing independent bookstore McNally Jackson. She toured the upper and lower levels—wandering through the classic literature, . . .
We’re chuffed to feature the London Review Bookshop in our latest Brickseller interview. Located in London’s Bloomsbury, the shop boasts more than twenty thousand genre-spanning titles befitting the LRB, which opened its namesake store in 2003. Over email, bookseller . . .
I’ve admired Canadian poet, essayist, Greek and Latin scholar, and librettist, Anne Carson for a long time now. I think I first heard about her as a professor of classics at McGill University who was writing amazing stuff, starting with . . .
Richard Sennett draws on ethnography, history, and social theory to develop his ideas about how we make sense of our environment—the cities we live in and the work that engages us. As Jenny Turner wrote in the Guardian, “for . . .
On a trip to Chicago a few years ago, Brick’s designer, Mark Byk, discovered a very cool independent bookstore in Wicker Park. He brought Quimby’s to our attention, and in a short while, Brick found a home on their . . .
*Note: In this 2013 interview, Tsitsi Dangarembga discusses a book called Chronicle of an Indomitable Daughter which was later published as This Mournable Body, shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize.
In 1988, at the age of twenty-eight, Tsitsi Dangarembga published . . .
Thanks to our international distributor, Central Books, Brick is now showing up in exciting, new-to-us bookstores around the world. And thanks to some dedicated readers, every so often we get a glimpse into these travels. A photograph of Brick 90 . . .
When owners Christin Evans and Praveen Madan became the proud owners of The Booksmith four years ago, their goal was to make an “independent bookstore for the 21st century.” Bricolage talked to Christin Evans by email to find out how . . .
At the intersection of Columbus and Broadway in downtown San Francisco sits City Lights Books. Founded by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter D. Martin, City Lights Books is a historical landmark, a destination for book lovers from around the world, and . . .
If you haven’t visited one of Type’s two locations in Toronto, you may know the Queen Street store from the delightful Joy of Books video that warmed our hearts when it went viral last winter. Owner Joanne Saul kindly answered . . .
Brick has gone international, and with the aid of London-based distributor Central Books, itʼs now available in Berlin. Specifically, youʼll find it at a bright and beautiful book and magazine shop called Do You Read Me?! on Auguststrasse, a quiet . . .
I lived in New York City through the 1980s, and one of the glories of that time was attending performances presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music under Harvey Lichtenstein. I have a vivid memory of taking the subway from . . .
Mac’s Fireweed Books, an institution on Whitehorse’s main drag, might just be the best bookstore north of 60 (it’s the only one that carries Brick, after all). Manager Natalie Sumner let us pick her brain about the store, famous . . .