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Eden Robinson's "Writing Prompts for the Broken-hearted" from Brick 107.

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This weekend we'll be at Toronto's Word on the Street! Locale: David Pecaut Square, 215 King Street W. You can find the Brick booth by the northwest entrance (right off King Street). We'll be there selling Bricks and subscriptions, talking literature, and embracing early autumn days.
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"You’re working so slowly and tentatively that the large questions often come by accident."

Colm Tóibín speaks with Eleanor Wachtel about his life and work in Brick's summer issue.

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This Sunday, Sept 21, Brick will be setting up shop at the Brooklyn Book Festival! Come say hi and discover new and old Bricks + magnificent, mag-lovers' merch.
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The final episode of this season of Writer to Writer is out today. A conversation between Amitava Kumar and Teju Cole, offering a singular inside look at how they frame, and live, artistic practice.

Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

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"Am I original and contemporary or just good fun late at night?"

Deborah Levy in Brick 114, now unlocked!

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Listen today!

Kyo Maclear and Brandon Shimoda bond over their quests to understand what it means to grow, parent, and exist within the many layers of self in this new episode of Brick's Writer to Writer series. Available wherever you stream.

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"Literature is a meditation of life, and it's born of life. it's not divorced from it."

Now unlocked: an interview with Anita Desai from Brick 56.

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On Sunday, we'll be at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival. Come by the Brick table 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. for subscriptions, back issues, merch, and chat. Hope to see you there!
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Now streaming on the Brick Podcast: a conversation between Sheila Heti and Vivian Gornick.

Listen today on Spotify or Apple Podcasts!

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Special offer! For a limited time only:

Get a one-year subscription to both Brick and The Capilano Review at 10% off. That's four issues, a magazine for every season: TCR has you covered fall and spring and Brick will keep you company winter and summer.

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"Doubtless, the writer one ends up becoming, is in part, the fruit of chance encounters. The old adage says it well: we are who we frequent."

Gail Scott on language and life in Montreal. Now unlocked from Brick 59.

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"Life is language, I wanted to say. Only problem: / it isn’t."

Begin your week with a poem by Robert Bringhurst, from Brick 111.

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Madeleine Thien interviews Eleanor Wachtel about her audio life: thirty-three years hosting Writers & Company, where she spoke with writers from Jamaica Kincaid to Oliver Sacks, Kazuo Ishiguro to Philip Roth, Michael Ondaatje to Sophie Calle, and so many more.

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The Art of the Interview: A Conversation with Eleanor Wachtel | Brick
For thirty-three years, Eleanor Wachtel hosted CBC’s Writers & Company. Each week, her hour-long conversations—generous, probing, serious, illuminating—opened windows from every corner in Canada into…
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We are mourning the loss of Fanny Howe and reflecting back on her life and all her brilliant work. Today, we're rereading her deeply-thought lyric essay on Thomas Hardy from Brick 69.

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New Brick ball caps have landed! Summer in style with our “Work of Art” designs.

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New fiction by Kathryn Scanlan in the summer issue of Brick.

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Today from the archive: an excerpt from Antonio di Benedetto's Nest in the Bones, translated from the Spanish by Martina Broner.

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"While I’m writing a story, I am subject to a set of tensions indistinguishable from those that overtake me when I write poems."

Three letters by Julio Cortázar, translated by Anne McLean in Brick's summer issue.

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Listen to the newest episode of the Brick Podcast featuring Anna Lee-Popham reading her piece, "These Malignant Years," from Brick 112.

Available on the Brick website or wherever you stream podcasts.

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"Oh! German is for me like music. Not like a beautiful melody, but something like a structure that is the base for the music."

Today from the archive: A conversation with Yoko Tawada from Brick 105.

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We're delighted to share that Brick is a finalist for the Cover Grand Prix in this year's National Magazine Awards!

Big shout out to our art director, the brilliant Mark Byk. Brick 113 cover art: Starve the Algorithm (2019) by William Kentridge.