Alexander MacLeod's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, The Guardian, and The Globe and Mail. His first collection of short stories, Light Lifting (Biblioasis, 2011), was a finalist for both the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Book Prize. His most recent work, Animal Person (McClelland & Stewart, 2022), was named a Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Irish Times, The Globe and Mail, and CBC Books.
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Sessions in which Alexander MacLeod participates
Friday 2 May, 2025
As tuition and housing costs continue to rise in Atlantic Canada, and as ‘free’ online digital resources proliferate, the price of physical books has become a target of student associations across the region. At SMU, for example, the student association actively promotes a list of “ZTC’ courses that offer ‘Zero Textbook Costs.” What are such programs teaching us about the relationship between the university and small press publishing in the region, especially in minority languages? What is a ...