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I first met Mendelson Joe when he and his then-girlfriend, Georgia Watterson, came over to our place for dinner. Must have been mid-’80s or so. Joe wasn’t a big socializer and Georgia taught with me at Centennial. She always wanted to know how I felt about something. They were an unusual couple, both interested in painting and sculpture, and in Big Ideas. My next memory is that Joe sent me a memoir called A Man and His Penis. I read it, with interest and curiosity, and told him I very much liked his story, but his writing was shit. Turns out...
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It’s that time of year! Whoever is on your list this season, we have the perfect gift. This year we’re offering 30% off of all the books included in the gift guide! Keep reading to get the discount codes for each grouping of books. This also applies to audiobooks and ebooks— which have no shipping fees or wait times! For the person who runs your book club, gives advice based on what your favourite authors say, and loves to annotate their books Use the discount code HOLIDAYBOOKCLUB at checkout for 30% off of the books in this stack. As Little As...
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Publicity Contact: Claire Pokorchak, Publicity Manager, ECW Press claire@ecwpress.com ECW Press has announced a fall 2023 publication date for investigative journalist and author Irvin Muchnick’s book Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads: The American Way of Death in Youth Football Conditioning. The public health harm of football has been widely explored in recent years mostly in relation to traumatic head injury — including in Muchnick’s own 2015 ECW Press book Concussion Inc.: The End of Football as We Know It. His new book tackles this important subject at another level, with shocking new research on how several American amateur, and often...
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ECW Press is proud to announce the results of our Best New Speculative Novel Contest, as judged by editors Jen R. Albert and Terese Mason Pierre. With over 170 entries to the contest, it was a difficult decision; there was so much great work to choose from. In the end, we’re so pleased to reveal that the winner of the contest was Toronto-based author Andrew Wilmot with their novel Withered. In this speculative horror novel, non-binary student Ellis moves with their mother to the disquieting town of Black Stone after reaching a low point with their mental health only to...
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It’s that time of year! Whoever is on your list this season, we have the perfect gift. This year we are offering 50% off the ebook/audiobook version of every book included in the gift guide! Keep reading to get the discount codes for each grouping of books. For the person who grows their own tomatoes, uses pressed flowers as bookmarks, and is a regular poster in their neighborhood’s activist Facebook group. Use the discount code HOLIDAYTOMATO at checkout for 50% off the audiobook or ebook versions of the books in this stack. The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed Field Study: Meditations on...