Catherine Vendryes

Catherine Vendryes

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  • Lattes with Ladies: Maggie Chang

    This month’s Lattes with Ladies is featuring Maggie Chang! Maggie is a writer, poet, artist, Top 25 Under 25 Environmentalist, and WWF Canada Living Planet Leader. She’s smart, she’s thoughtful, and she loves a good fantasy novel. It was incredibly fun to talk to her about YA novels, getting into a series before everybody else, Read.

  • Lattes with Ladies: Jessie Ho

    Our first returning Lattes with Ladies guest: Jessie Ho! I first interviewed Jessie in 2017 while she was living in Hong Kong. We regrouped in March of this year—literally days before quarantine began—and it was fun to revisit what was going through our minds back then. You can follow her on Instagram at @iejessie or Read.

  • Pride Month reading list

    Pride month is over but that doesn’t mean that celebrations have to stop! Celebrate a second Pride month (or all year around if you like) with these LGBT2Q+ books. In this case, these are books that either are written by LGBT2Q+ authors and/or feature LGBT2Q+ characters, as recommended by members of the LGBT2Q+ community in Read.

  • Lattes with Ladies: Jessica Needham

    In this edition of Lattes with Ladies we are celebrating Pride with the effervescent Jessica Needham! Jess shares her thoughts on queer books versus queering books and her fascinating research into queer media studies. HPL: First and foremost, what are you reading right now? JN: Ooh, what am I reading right now? At the moment, Read.

  • Stories addressing anti-black racism

    “The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. “The danger of a single story” In light of the recent cases of George Floyd and Regis Korchinski-Paquet, conversations about anti-racism and the history Read.

  • Lattes with Ladies: Elizabeth Scott

    This is a long and lovely interview I did with the hilarious and indomitable Elizabeth Scott back in January when meeting up in a cafe was no big deal at all. All of the references to what she had been reading and how many books she read thus far were from when the year had Read.

  • How to read more during COVID-19

    I’ve been keeping quiet lately while I readjust to a new daily routine of social distancing. If you’re like me, by now you may have dry eyes from too much screen time and not enough sunlight, but we all need to do our part to help stop the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. It Read.

  • Lattes with Ladies: Justine Abigail Yu

    The triumphant return of Lattes with Ladies begins with the founder of Living Hyphen and magnificent marketing maven, Justine Abigail Yu! I learned about Living Hyphen shortly after they launched and was blown away with the creativity of emerging hyphenate-Canadian writers. Issue 2: Across Generations is in the works and you could be one of Read.

  • The Boat People by Sharon Bala

    Sharon Bala’s The Boat People is controversial, to say the least. Featured in the 2018 Canada Reads competition only to be ousted on day one, it takes an honest attempt to steer the course of Canadian conversation by directly addressing one of our hot-button issues of the moment. In this case, the refugee crisis. Starting in 2009, Read.

  • Lattes with Ladies: Erin Taylor

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    After much ado, I finally have another Lattes with Ladies interview featuring my good friend, writer, and globetrotter Erin Taylor. You can follow Erin on her Instagram and wait with bated breath like the rest of us for her first book. HPL: First off, what are you reading right now? ET: I’m currently reading four Read.