House of Anansi Press

11/08/2024

📘 For fans of Black Mirror and The Matrix, WE ARE DREAMS IN THE ETERNAL MACHINE by Deni Béchard is a daring, mind-bending novel about the future of AI and what it means to be human.

📘 An experimental AI tasked with protecting humanity carries out its mission by placing Earth’s remaining seven billion people in vivid artificial environments where all their desires are fulfilled. Within the machine, a group of humans unpack their traumatic memories and complicated pasts. Gorgeously written, bold and unforgettable, this is speculative fiction at its finest.

📘 Available January 28th, 2025. Learn more here: https://houseofanansi.com/products/we-are-dreams-in-the-eternal-machine?_pos=1&_sid=74152b03c&_ss=r

11/07/2024

🤘🎸 COVER REVEAL 🎸🤘

🔥 We're so excited to share the cover of IN TOO DEEP: WHEN CANADIAN PUNKS TOOK OVER THE WORLD by Matt Bobkin and Adam Feibel.

🔥 Drawing on exclusive interviews and personal stories from nine artists of the era, IN TOO DEEP explores how Canada became the improbable birthplace of a new age of punk icons—from Avril Lavigne to Alexisonfire.

🔥 Available June 3, 2025. Preorder wherever you get your books!

11/07/2024

Cover reveal time! 🎉

We're so excited for IN TOO DEEP: WHEN CANADIAN PUNKS TOOK OVER THE WORLD. Check out the cover, learn more about the book, and preorder your copy!

Available June 3, 2025.

Featuring interviews with members of Sum 41, Alexisonfire, Simple Plan, Gob, Billy Talent, Silverstein and more

11/05/2024

🗳️ It's Election Day for our friends in the United States.

✍️ In our latest blog post, DANGEROUS MEMORY author Charlie Angus reflects on the political landscape of the U.S., conspiracy theories, and the failure of technology to create a more connected, unified world.

👉 Read on: https://ow.ly/HOwA50U0oGo

11/05/2024

🥳 Happy to OTHERS LIKE ME by Nicole Louie!

💛Learn more about this collection of candid conversations with and women from around the world on our website: https://houseofanansi.com/products/others-like-me?_pos=1&_sid=c8863f763&_ss=r

11/05/2024

Ian Williams completed his 2024 CBC Massey Lectures tour last night at Toronto’s Koerner Hall, but his words are preserved in book form.

“With ‘What I Mean to Say,’ award-winning novelist and poet lan Williams seeks to ignite a conversation about conversation, to confront the deterioration of civic and civil discourse, and to reconsider the act of conversing as the sincere, open exchange of thoughts and feelings.
Alternately serious and playful, Williams nimbly leaps between topics of discussion and, along the way, is discursive, digressive, and endlessly generous-like any great conversationalist.”

You’ll find Williams’ lecture series ‘What I Mean to Say’ between the covers of one handy volume available here at Novel Idea.

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11/04/2024

🩷 "Deeply felt and deeply researched, books like this will help women decide what is right for them." — Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of The Sleep Watcher

📙 OTHERS LIKE ME by Nicole Louie comes out tomorrow! Part memoir, part exploration of childlessness through candid conversations, this book showcases the many ways women find fulfilment outside of parenthood.

🔎 Learn more here: https://houseofanansi.com/products/others-like-me?srsltid=AfmBOooOcAG18mvrcnb58SS7BMQv9Wxyak0kYvt68qXJS77bfY8PjoCZ

10/31/2024

✍ New on the Blog

On a day of ghosts, ghouls, and monsters, DANGEROUS MEMORY author Charlie J. Angus writes about more serious scares: conspiracy theories, the politicization of fear, and George Orwell's dark vision of totalitarian control.

Read on: https://houseofanansi.com/blogs/anansi/reflections-on-1980s-dystopia-with-charlie-angus

For further reading, check out DANGEROUS MEMORY, available now!

10/30/2024

📍Toronto was the last stop on the 2024 CBC Massey Lectures tour, and we're so grateful we got to see Ian Williams in action!

✨Poignant, fresh, and even a little theatrical, Ian's talk about the lost art of conversation is the kind of lecture you'll want to return to again and again. Luckily, we have a book for that! 😎

💛 Ian's CBC Massey Lecture series, WHAT I MEAN TO SAY, is available now wherever you buy your books! And if you'd like to listen to his lectures, tune in to CBC Ideas the week of November 18th. They'll be airing CBC Massey Lectures every day at 8pm EST.

10/29/2024

⚡DANGEROUS MEMORY: COMING OF AGE IN THE DECADE OF GREED by Charlie J. Angus is out today!

✨“DANGEROUS MEMORY is a timely and useful cure for sociopolitical amnesia as we march into the great unknown.” —Paul Myers, author of The Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy

👉Learn more here: https://houseofanansi.com/products/dangerous-memory?_pos=1&_sid=fd38df8d8&_ss=r

10/29/2024

Enough small talk. Let's get right to it: Why can't we talk to each other anymore? What makes good communication? And how do we restore the lost art of conversation?

In contemporary society, much of our communication exists in a new dimension, the online space, and it's changing how we regard each other and how we converse. In the digital realm, we can be anonymous, we can make false and hurtful comments yet evade consequences in a hurried scroll of clicks and swipes. But a good conversation takes time and patience, courage, even. We need to realize that one-half of our conversations is, in fact, listening. And aren't the best conversationalists-like the best musicians-good listeners?

With What I Mean to Say, award-winning novelist and poet Ian Williams seeks to ignite a conversation about conversation, to confront the deterioration of civic and civil discourse, and to reconsider the act of conversing as the sincere, open exchange of thoughts and feelings. Alternately serious and playful, Williams nimbly leaps between topics of discussion and, along the way, is discursive, digressive, and endlessly generous-like any great conversationalist.

Web store link: https://www.laughingoysterbooks.com/?q=h.tviewer&using_sb=status&qsb=keyword&qse=temoIPlhFAiPFQMPoQtiDw

10/28/2024

🎸 Meet renowned politician, author, and musician Charlie J. Angus, the author of DANGEROUS MEMORY: COMING OF AGE IN THE DECADE OF GREED. This gripping ride through the tumultuous political and cultural landscape of the 1980s publishes tomorrow!

⚡“Equal parts punk rock memoir and crash course in How We Got Here, DANGEROUS MEMORY is a vivid, rapid-fire account of a pivotal period in our collective history. Peppered with shocking details that will surprise many readers, this big-hearted book by one of Canada’s bravest and most principled public servants is necessary history for these dangerous times.” — John Vaillant, author of Fire Weather

Learn more here: https://houseofanansi.com/products/dangerous-memory?_pos=1&_sid=fd38df8d8&_ss=r

10/28/2024

I stopped into Perfect Books Ottawa and learned that all the books I had signed had sold out. So here's another batch of author-signed copies.
Let me know where you picked up your copy of Dangerous Memory. House of Anansi Press

10/24/2024

📚 "Deepa Rajagopalan has a finely tuned, confident voice and a seemingly effortless knack for evoking pathos in the dynamics between her diverse, and often fractious, cast of characters." —Pasha Malla, author of Kill the Mall

💕 Deepa's breathtaking short story collection PEACOCKS OF INSTAGRAM is a finalist for the 2024 Giller Prize. Learn more about it here: https://houseofanansi.com/products/peacocks-of-instagram?_pos=1&_sid=20766273d&_ss=r

10/24/2024

The CBC Massey Lectures are coming to Toronto! ✨

Use promo code massey2024 to get 20% off tickets to see Ian Williams at Koerner Hall on October 29th.

Secure your ticket today: https://www.rcmusic.com/events-and-performances/2024-cbc-massey-lectures-what-i-mean-to-say-ian-wi?utm_source=House+of+Anansi+Press&utm_campaign=fe2c506562-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_HOA_10082024_2024Massey_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dd9effa748-fe2c506562-&goal=0_dd9effa748-fe2c506562-&mc_cid=fe2c506562&mc_eid=UNIQID

10/24/2024

HAIR FOR MEN is an Indigo Best Book of 2024! Congratulations to author Michelle Winters. 🧷🤘🎸

Check out the full list and learn more about HAIR FOR MEN: https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/best-books-of-2024/?utm_campaign=homepage-content-showcase-image-card&utm_medium=banner&utm_source=internal&utm_id=20241024&utm_content=&utm_term=

10/21/2024

💕 "Diligently researched and thoughtfully organized, OTHERS LIKE ME is an honest look at the diverse identities and life paths of childless women." —Maisonneuve

📚 Only two weeks until pub day for this gorgeous book! OTHERS LIKE ME by Nicole Louie tells the story of 14 women from around the world who don't have children. With this collection of candid conversations, Louie upends stereotypes that diminish women who are by choice, circumstance, or ambivalence and offers reassurance and companionship on a path less known. Don't miss this highly anticipated North American release — preorder now!

🎉 Available November 5th. Learn more here: https://houseofanansi.com/products/others-like-me?_pos=1&_sid=7a5a7922b&_ss=r