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This Is How We Love author Lisa Moore on Watercolour and Writing
Written by Lisa Moore I started painting with watercolours again while writing This Is How We Love. I hadn’t used them since my twenties — mostly landscapes. I love how transparent a brushstroke can be. And sometimes veils of overlapping pigment can appear extra luminous. Watercolours have an immediacy. I wet the paper before using paint, brush on even lines of...
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Mar 26, 2021
Lisa Moore: Ten Things I Love About Painting [guest post]
Lisa Moore is the bestselling author of the novels February, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and Alligator, a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her third novel, Caught, is in stores now! How tactile it is. Oils and acrylics are viscous enough to hold the trace of the action of the brush. The swish of a stroke holds the...
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Mar 26, 2021
Cover reveal: Lisa Moore’s CAUGHT
Drum roll please . . .
Internationally acclaimed author Lisa Moore offers us a remarkable new novel about a man who escapes from prison to embark upon one of the most ambitious pot-smuggling adventures ever attempted.
Available June 2013.
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Mar 26, 2021
CBC Announces new miniseries adapted from Lisa Moore’s Caught
Last week CBC announced a list of 5 new original programs for its 2016-2017 lineup, including a miniseries adapted from Caught by Lisa Moore, proudly published by House of Anansi. To say the very least, we are ecstatic and could not wait to share the news! Sally Catto, general manager of programming at CBC Television says: “We have taken creative...
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Mar 26, 2021
Eva Crocker shares a story about her mother, Lisa Moore
When I was five years old, my mom gave me a hardcover journal with eight entries already filled in. All the entries are accompanied by a photo taken with a disposable camera. The first seven are blocks of text, printed on a dot matrix printer, then snipped to fit the page and glued in place. The last entry is handwritten...
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February was named a New Yorker Best Book of the Year and it won CBC's Canada Reads competition. Caught was a finalist for many significant Canadian awards and is now a major television series starring Allan Hawco. 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I’m here with a conference of twenty thousand librarians from all over North America, two weeks after the Pulse massacre. It’s very early; I’m jogging around two big, olive-coloured ponds and not a breath of wind, an empty eight-lane highway between the ponds and I’m on the median.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA lizard skitters over the curb and across the highway. It goes in fast-forward but there are glitches. Stops. Goes, stops. Darts. A jellied quivering. The long thin body is still, but the legs. You can’t even see the legs in the bald light. Just a blur of motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are squiggles of fluorescent spray-paint here and there on the sidewalk in pink, orange, and lime. They’re construction directives, targets for jackhammers, indicating the location of water or sewage pipes beneath the concrete, positions for embedded spigots, underground tunnels for workers and who knows what else — bog people, muskets, cannonballs, arrowheads. I took two planes to get here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrlando was retrieved from the swamp by a wily entrepreneur who set up dummy companies to purchase the land cheap. A hundred thousand people work in the theme parks here, vomiting in their oversized cartoon-costume heads because you aren’t allowed to vomit in a theme park. It’s hot in those cartoon heads. You aren’t even allowed to die of heat prostration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeople who die on the parks’ premises are secreted away, whisked from the grounds in unmarked cars and why not? Why not have a zone that death can’t in infiltrate? It costs fabulously to squeeze into these crowds, to belong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf course you offer life without death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou offer furry animals that speak.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I’m coming around the second pond the sprayers come on and shuffle out sheets of recollected water, the sign says. Water that I don’t want to touch my bare skin because who knows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s not true that the wily entrepreneur is cryogenically preserved. That’s an urban legend. People say just his head in a murky aquarium: mouth open, the lower lip looking grey and nibbled, deteriorating despite the formaldehyde, like he’s developed a cold sore, and a five o’clock shadow, because hair still grows in death. Sometimes the head burps and a wobbling bubble escapes a corner of the mouth. A fold-encrusted eyelid utters. But that is just the underwater air infiltration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis place is where the GoFundMe stage-four cancer children come to fulfill a bucket list. The parks around here specialize in reconstituting hearts — break ’em, put ’em back together. The white beluga in the aquarium will do it for you, all by itself. Defibrillate your soul. The ghostly mammal emerges from the murk, tail dragging because of a low-grade fugue.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“[A] testimony to her absolute mastery of technique . . . Without question, Moore is a writer of great social conscience and compassion.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“In Moore’s most diverse and powerful collection yet, each story has a role to play in highlighting the most fascinating hidden aspects of our everyday lives.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Toronto Life","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Moore takes her characters to some undeniably dark places in these stories, though the book is never entirely devoid of humour or hope. And there is abiding joy in the prose, which is lithe and tensile in equal measure. There is astonishment here, and grit, and beauty that is close to breathtaking.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuill and Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Lisa Moore brings a particular wizardry to whatever she touches, but her command of the short story is such that when she bends its rules, we look at old ideas in new ways . . . The stories in Something for Everyone are like prizes in pass-the-parcel. They tie up neatly, but they’re loose enough so that when you move the package, the corner edge tears, and the wrapping opens up like a hole in a pair of nylons, and you realize there are a lot more layers underneath that need to be peeled back and teased apart.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOvercast\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Overcast","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“The stories in Lisa Moore’s collection, Something for Everyone, pulsate with raw energy and a fierce, searching intelligence. In a series of unconventional tales that explode off the page, Moore ushers her reader into a familiar but fractured and anything-but-straightforward reality. Lisa Moore writes of quotidian lives in crisis. Her characters’ anxieties mirror our own: family, love, employment, finances. But from these commonplace lives she conjures spellbinding mini-dramas, drawing us in from each story’s opening line, generating great suspense and fully engaging our sympathies. Throughout, the writing is vibrant, uninhibited and packed with sensual detail. Moore acknowledges the beauty of nature and the human capacity for kindness; she is no stranger to the essential comedy of the human condition. But never does she shy away from the dark undercurrents of her characters’ lives. Something for Everyone is an important book by a major talent working at the height of her considerable powers, an author who isn’t afraid to stretch the boundaries of her art and who pursues her singular aesthetic vision in an uncompromising and wildly entertaining manner.” — \u003cstrong\u003eThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award Jury Citation\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award Jury Citation","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Lisa Moore returns with her third story collection that shows us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden in our everyday lives.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_2":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_3":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_4":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeCode_2":"05","PrizeCode_3":"03","PrizeCode_4":"03","PrizeName_0":"Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award","PrizeName_1":"Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction","PrizeName_2":"Scotiabank Giller Prize","PrizeName_3":"A Globe and Mail Book of the Year","PrizeName_4":"A Quill \u0026amp; Quire Book of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2018","PrizeYear_1":"2018","PrizeYear_2":"2018","PrizeYear_3":"2018","PrizeYear_4":"2018","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-09-04","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Lisa Moore returns with her third story collection that shows us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden in our everyday lives.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Something for Everyone
Lisa Moore returns with her third story collection that shows us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden in our everyday lives.
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The novel walks a great line between paperback levity and psychological intelligence—exactly what you want in a summer read.","OtherText_Review_11_Auth":"Julia De Laurentiis Johnson","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Maclean's","OtherText_Review_12":"…sharp lines, seedy characters and the kind of can’t-put-it-down suspense you might expect from a dime store detective novel but with Lisa Moore-level construction, detail and meticulous prose. This isn’t Moore slumming it in suspense fiction—but genre elevation…","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"The Coast","OtherText_Review_13":"With linguistic verve and a magnified curiosity about whatever passes through her field of vision, Moore elevates the cops-and-robbers subgenre to literary respectability.","OtherText_Review_13_Auth":"Richard Cumyn","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Winnipeg Review","OtherText_Review_14":"The reader can only marvel at the precision of Moore's observations.","OtherText_Review_14_Auth":"Mark Frutkin","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_15":"...witty, retrospective, eloquent and exciting. Moore has crafted an old-timey adventure with good guys and bad guys — who are also one in the same.","OtherText_Review_15_Auth":"Amy Rosen","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"Chatelaine","OtherText_Review_16":"...Moore’s Caught is a fantastic read. It’s a rapid ride, with a strong current of tension that never lets up.","OtherText_Review_16_Auth":"Jennifer Lori","OtherText_Review_16_Src":"PRISM international","OtherText_Review_17":"A superbly written novel that crosses literary boundaries, Caught will surely garner [Moore] even wider readership.","OtherText_Review_17_Auth":"Mike Heffernan","OtherText_Review_17_Src":"Atlantic Books Today","OtherText_Review_18":"Caught is a pleasure to read. The narrative is cohesive and propulsive, but it’s Moore’s mastery of language and image that sets her apart.","OtherText_Review_18_Auth":"Heather Cromarty","OtherText_Review_18_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_Review_19":"Moore's ability to conceal a drum-tight plot line and an unflagging fidelity to the thematic pillars of Caught—mistakes and luck, trust and doubt, consequences and freedom—in the cloak of rough-and-tumble prose is something to behold.","OtherText_Review_19_Auth":"Laurie D Graham","OtherText_Review_19_Src":"The Malahat Review","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Leah Hager Cohen","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_2":"Caught is an outstanding novel, combining the complexity of the best literary fiction with the page-turning compulsive readability of a thriller.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Jeet Heer","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_3":"Lisa Moore’s new book is a beautiful piece of writing…","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Duncan McMonagle","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_4":"[T]his novel that is rife with realness, and beauty, and tension; so much it hurts, in the best possible way.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Morgan Murray","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Newfoundland Quarterly","OtherText_Review_5":"Moore’s prose is as vivid as ever...","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Susan G. 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Of course, it also lives up to the ultimate test of a thriller – there is no doubt that this is a page-turner.","OtherText_Review_8_Auth":"Kaiva Brammanis","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"McGill Daily","OtherText_Review_9":"…in Caught Moore has clearly set out to challenge the conventions of crime writing.","OtherText_Review_9_Auth":"Jeff Miller","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Cult Montreal","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A remarkable novel about a man who escapes from prison to embark upon one of the most ambitious pot-smuggling adventures ever attempted.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback TV Tie-in","PublicationDate":"2013-05-24","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A remarkable novel about a man who escapes from prison to embark upon one of the most ambitious pot-smuggling adventures ever attempted.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
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This Is How We Love
From the celebrated author of February, an exhilarating new novel that asks: What makes a family? How does it shape us? And can we ever really choose who we love?

