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The BookThug 2008 Spring Subscription. To be a card carrying member of BookThug Nation you have to pay your dues. ----- I meant to put this up here months ago. Fortunately, these Belated Greeting Cards from the good people at Parasitic Ventures Press are perfect for any occasion (including this one). Each card tells the extinction story of a different species, and names the individual responsible. Perfect for any belated occasion! ----- For those of you who found his first book Ligatures interesting, wait until you get a glance at Donato Mancini's follow-up collection �thel. It'll freak your gobble, (which is a good thing). ----- Nathalie Stephens' new book just arrived in the shoppe today. The Sorrow And The Fast Of It continues her exporation of between-ness and the limits of the body,in particular the bodies of Nathalie and Nathana�l ----- LATE SPRING: BOOKTHUG SPRING LIST FINALLY COMPLETE AUGUST 2007 Lisa Jarnot's translation of Homer's The Iliad Book XXII is finally availble. ----- Winner of this year's bpNichol Chapbook Award: Hazard by Jake Kennedy. Congratulations Jake! ----- For all you closet Surrealists out there: The Sands of Dream by Th�r�se Renaud as translated by Ray Ellenwood is now available from BookThug. The Sands of Dream is the first English edition of what is considered by many to be the first truly Surrealist collection published in Canada. ----- Check out this terrific new book by Rachel Zolf: Human Resources, just out from Coach House Books. Makes you wonder why I'm not showcasing three new titles from BookThug, eh? Sandra Alland's Blissful Times Tom Walmsley's What Happened Lisa Robertson's The Apothecary ----- New BookThug Subscription Packages are now available: The Full Subscription Package The Chapbook Subscription Package The Tradebook Subscription Package ----- Ready for something new and exciting? A new literary press from the West Coast of Canada and West Coast Line. Four new unapologetic titles from Line Books. ----- Concrete, Visual, Lyrical, 'Pataphysical: No matter which way you look at it Shaton Harris Loves You. New from The Mercury Press. ----- You'll have to excuse me this moment of self-indulgence but this new book by Stephen Cain is terrific! ----- Wow. Check out this amazing example of form meeting content in a smallpress production: Silver Standard by Justin Sirois. -----

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