July 1, 2018
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#238 Authors Are Getting Bloody In The Culture Wars
The book world has been thrown into turmoil by sexual assault allegations, inter-generational fighting and questions over Indigenous ancestry. Is this inside baseball for a tiny industry, a microcosm of the culture wars or a battle over who gets to tell Canada's story?
Jesse Brown
Host & Publisher

Hannah McGregor is the editor of the upcoming book, Refuse: CanLit in Ruins.

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