Hello, I'm Special
The guru of indie culture offers up a barrage of facts, observations, and arguments that point to the extinction of the non-conformist and the rise of individuality as the new conformity. In chronicling his singular encounters as an editor and pop culture explorer, his meditations touch on everything from religion to Karaoke, from declining birth rates to Celebrity Worship Syndrome, from Mississauga's famed Backyard Wrestling Federation to Friday night Sabbath in Atlanta, Georgia. More.

The Program
The Program is a unique work of stark humour and pathos that seduces its readers into the world of advertising guru Maury Stern. Through chain restaurants, forest reserves, Zionist summer camps, abandoned amusement parks and eastern European shtetls, the novel chases a mystery: what happened to Maury's son, Danny, the night he was left alone with his uncle. More.

Ditch
Ditch is a subversive, compelling portrait of a young man’s plunge into adulthood. Ditch is awkward, aimless, endearing - still living with his mom, driving a delivery van to get by. Debs is beautiful, tortured and much projected upon, largely because of the kind of pictures of herself she puts up on her website. Both are searching for absent pasts and possible futures, and Debs is on the run from something particularly nasty. More.

We Want Some Too
Take a tour of a world inhabited by slackers with bad jobs - a generation for whom cultural expression is central to identity. Never before have so many young people been involved in the consumption, production and interpretation of culture. From punk jazz and performance art to pirate radio and culture jamming, this book unearths the underground, making sense of the barbarians massing at the gates of high art and predicting the death of mass culture. More.

Lurvy
Charlotte the spider... Wilbur the pig... Fern and Avery... and Lurvy, the hired hand. They and all the other characters from the timeless children’s classic that you remember so well are back. A caveat: given the (ahem) rather significant changes in social mores since the first appearance of these jolly folk, happenings on the Arable farm are somewhat different than you might well remember them. More.

Smell It
The debut collection of visceral short fiction from notorious Toronto writer, editor, indie commentator and small-press overlord Hal Niedzviecki, Smell It lances the boil of urban life and sticks its nose right up to what oozes out. More.

Collaborative Works

The Original Canadian
City Dweller's Almanac
In this groundbreaking miscellany of facts and unsupported assertions, the authors use the format of a traditional almanac as a vehicle for their irreverent take on Canuck folk wisdom. An insider's guide to Canadian urban life at the beginning of the twenty-first century. More.

Cyborg
cyborg, n. a person whose physiological functioning is aided by or dependent upon a mechanical or electronic device. Steve Mann is a cyborg. He sees the entire world, including himself, through a video lens. Part biography, part breath-taking manifesto, part startling look into the very near future, Cyborg challenges preconceptions and invites readers to enter the mind of one of the most fascinating thinkers of our time. More.

Concrete Forest
Dedicated to shattering preconceptions about Canadian literature, Concrete Forest gathers cutting-edge writing from across Canada in both English and French. Featuring both new and previously published stories and excerpts from renowned authors like Michael Turner, Lisa Moore, Matthew Firth, and Cordelia Strube, this collection explores Canada's urban reality with writing that is visceral, satiric, surreal, passionate and unflinchingly honest. More.