Laura Frey | 2017 Giller Prize: In (just) before the shortlist @LauraFreyReadinginBed | Uploaded October 2017 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
The shortlist will be announced tomorrow at 11am ET! Here are my thoughts on the longlist, just before it become irrelevant.

Last year's Try a Chapter tag, Giller edition: youtube.com/watch?v=k2_hSUSuYD0

My article about CanLit, on carte blanche: carte-blanche.org/canlit-cynics-revolutions-alex-good-searching-petronius-totem-peter-unwin

The long list:
David Chariandy, Brother
Rachel Cusk, Transit
David Demchuk, The Bone Mother
Joel Thomas Hynes, We’ll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night
Andrée A. Michaud, Boundary, translated by Donald Winkler
Josip Novakovich, Tumbleweed
Ed O’Loughlin, Minds of Winter
Zoey Leigh Peterson, Next Year, For Sure
Michael Redhill, Bellevue Square
Deborah Willis, The Dark and Other Love Stories
Michelle Winters, I Am a Truck


Also mentioned:
My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal
Hellgoing by Lynn Coady