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Appel Salon Program, Toronto Public Library Jan 19 2021

January 4, 2021 by Kristyn Dunnion

Please join me Tuesday, January 19th, 2021 from 7 pm -8 pm for a lively discussion of my recent story collection, STOOP CITY, one of the Globe & Mail’s most anticipated Fall books. Leading the […]

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Quill & Quire Review: Stoop City, Kristyn Dunnion

December 12, 2020 by Kristyn Dunnion

What an assured and attractively variegated collection of stories. Set in Toronto and small-town southern Ontario, Kristyn Dunnion’s 13 short pieces are marvellous feats of pacing and styling bolstered by vibrant characterization and enviable turns of phrase.

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All Lit Up: Tell us a little about your book and how it came to be

October 29, 2020 by Kristyn Dunnion

All Lit Up: Tell us a little about your book and how it came to be

Kristyn Dunnion joins us in the Indie Reading Room with her latest Stoop City (Biblioasis), a collection of stories that’s at once dark and funny and wholly absorbing about a gentrifying west-Toronto neighbourhood and a cast of characters down on their luck.

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All Lit UP!

October 29, 2020 by Kristyn Dunnion

Stoop City is featured in ALL LIT UP’s Indie Reading Room! Check it out for a cute Q&A, a live-recorded reading on All Lit Up’s IG account, and a generous 20% off copies of Stoop […]

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The fall’s best new books from independent publishers

October 20, 2020 by Kristyn Dunnion

The fall’s best new books from independent publishers

Some of the stories in Kristyn Dunnion’s latest collection are loosely linked by character, but what really unites Stoop City (Biblioasis) is its punk ethos, the way even a well-ordered condo careens towards anarchy with the addition of one feral cat or a dead girlfriend’s ghost.

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GET LIT on CFMU-FM

October 17, 2020 by Kristyn Dunnion

Jamie Tennant interviews me for GET LIT, his weekly podcast and radio show on CFMU-FM. We talk about the emotional but not necessarily financial rewards of the writing life, writing for social change vs social […]

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Get Lit episode for October 15, 2020

October 15, 2020 by Kristyn Dunnion

cfmu.ca • Podcast interview with Kristyn Dunnion by Jamie Tennant

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Xtra Magazine: Toronto at its Most Glitteringly Sad

September 21, 2020 by Kristyn Dunnion

Xtra Magazine:  Toronto at its Most Glitteringly Sad

XTRA* Magazine / Casey Plett • Posted: September 21, 2020

Kristyn Dunnion’s new story collection “Stoop City” blooms with characters down on their luck.

Smoothing linens with military precision is an unsung tradition in the janitorial arts. A properly made bed can console the itinerant, the broken-hearted, the homeless. Staging properties, she has learned over the years, is mostly about subtraction, about deleting personal history, something she takes very seriously. She continues to take things away with total exactitude, one after the other, until a purity in openness emerges, a balancing of light and air and material objects set in space; the lie of neutrality. This is the soothing of wounds, when complete; the calming of sorrows. Progress and satisfaction, here on earth.

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STOOP CITY out September 2020 on Biblioasis

August 25, 2020 by Kristyn Dunnion

STOOP CITY out September 2020 on Biblioasis

I’m thrilled to say my new story collection, STOOP CITY, is breaching Canadian bookshelves this September. You can pre-order copies at your local, friendly indie bookstore! If you’re in Toronto, try www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com , who partners […]

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5 books to read if you loved Canada Reads contender Radicalized by Cory Doctorow

March 27, 2020 by Kristyn Dunnion

5 books to read if you loved Canada Reads contender Radicalized by Cory Doctorow

CBC Books March 27, 2020 Tarry This Night by Kristyn Dunnion   Kristyn Dunnion’s book Tarry This Night is a dystopian novel in which a new civil war has broken out in the U.S. (Liz Marshall/Arsenal Pulp […]

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