Top Shelf: An Evening of Books and Cocktails
This December, Upstart & Crow is turning down the lights, breaking out the stemware, and staying open late for TOP SHELF, two evenings of book and beverages. It’s a chance to spend an early winter’s evening with friends or loved ones browsing our bookshelves, enjoying cocktail pairings from Provincial Spirits, and discovering great reads and ...read more
Dec 2 Upstart & Crow Store
Making a Chaputs, with Joe Martin and Alan Hoover
Join us on Thursday, September 22 at 7 p.m. for a fascinating exploration of the work of a celebrated master canoe maker… and enjoy discovering a hand-carved canoe right here at Upstart & Crow. Tuutahkʷiisnupšiƛ Joe Martin and former museum curator Alan Hoover will discuss the meaning and method behind one of the most vivid ...read more
Sep 22 Upstart & Crow Store
The Petroleum Papers: Book Launch
Celebrating Geoff Dembicki's anticipated new book, The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change. Join Greystone Books, The David Suzuki Institute, The Tyee and Upstart & Crow to celebrate Geoff Dembicki's The Petroleum Papers, called “essential”, a “vivid expose”, and “a truly needed compendium of Big Oil's endless lies.” This is ...read more
Sep 20 Online via YouTube
Generation Dread Launch with Britt Wray
"What a gift! Generation Dread meets the unsettled soul with kinship and insight. In these brimming pages, Britt Wray guides us through the interior and interpersonal landscape of the climate crisis, helping us find a grounded, collective path forward in our tangled time,” says Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson, climate strategist and co-editor of All We Can ...read more
May 24 Online via YouTube
Winner of the 2021 Dobloug Prize (Norway), Longlisted for the Prix Femina 2021 (France), Winner of the Norwegian Critics’ Prize for Literature, Shortlisted for the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize... and now a Found in Translation Feature at Upstart & Crow. We are delighted to present an interview with the prolific and enigmatic Mona Høvring: an award-winning ...read more
Nov 23 Online via YouTube
On Time & Water: In Conversation with Andri Snær Magnason
On Time and Water has been hailed by authors, climate scientists and media across the globe as a beautiful, literary way to look directly at the climate crisis; one that even offers hope at the future. Andri Snær Magnason wasn’t a climate scientist or specialist when he began this process but, he explains, “If you ...read more
Nov 4 Online via YouTube
The Environmentalist’s Dilemma: In Conversation with Arno Kopecky
Gramsci once spoke of pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. As we face the real and existential dangers in the climate crisis era, grappling with humanity’s greatest calamity is both daunting… and essential. Award-winning journalist and author Arno Kopecky shares a collection of essays, The Environmentalist’s Dilemma, that help us to acknowledge both ...read more
Nov 3 Online via YouTube
Found in Translation: Yuri Herrera on Three Novels
Read a sentence that wasn’t originally written in your primary language and immediately your perspective shifts. Combine that with discovering voices from different countries and different cultures, and you begin to understand why Upstart & Crow is so passionate about fiction in translation. Our Found in Translation book club introduces members to some of the ...read more
Oct 27 Online via YouTube