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Antanas Sileika’s The Death of Tony: On Belonging in Two World in The Seaboard Review:
“[The Death of Tony is] a story well told, a chatty reminiscence that charms as it instructs,” says Gordon Phinn. “The feeling is one of friendly converse, like some long-distant but now beloved uncle filling you in on the whispered secrets and mysteries of the extended family and almost forgotten culture.”
A “riveting memoir … recounted in lush and vivid prose.”
Susan Schwartz writes that reading To Linger With You is “to feel transported.”
In conversation with Schwartz, Nebenzahl says she was drawn to “looking at loss through memoir”: “We all have stories. It was the idea that I could see my family through my imagination.”
Dennis Lee celebrated the launch of Wrestling With Cadence on September 18.
Lee—whom Quill & Quire called one of the “finest poets in the English language”—read from his remarkable new collection and reflected on an extraordinary career of writing.
Blue Runaways named as finalist in Next Generation Indie Book Awards
Congratulations to Stonehewer author Jann Everard! The debut author’s short story collection was a finalist alongside books by Judith Dancoff, P.A. Callaro, and more.
Two Stonehewer books named as finalists in Foreword INDIE Awards
We are thrilled to share that two of our 2024 titles have been honoured as finalists in Foreword magazine’s INDIE Awards. Antanas Sileika’s The Death of Tony was included in the “Multicultural” category, while Mark Abley’s Conversations with a Dead Man was nominated in the category of “Biography.” Congratulations to our authors and all the other finalists!
An Interview with Mark Abley in the University of Saskatchewan’s Green and White
The author of Stonehewer’s Conversations with a Dead Man: Indigenous Rights and the Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott on the inspiration, research, and importance of his latest book.
“We need to understand the past if we are to move forward. I believe that reconciliation depends on truth.”
Antanas Sileika in the Toronto Star
Antanas Sileika, author of Stonehewer Books’ The Death of Tony, was recently featured in the major Toronto newspaper. He discusses the difference between North American and Eastern European culture, being translated into Lithuanian, and the push from Stonehewer that led him to write his latest book.
Standing Room Only at The Death of Tony Book Launch
On March 27, a book launch was held for Antanas Sileika’s The Death of Tony. The author signed copies and entertained the busy room with his storytelling.
Eager book lovers stand at the back after the venue runs out of chairs
Antanas Sileika signs a copy of The Death of Tony
George Galt, publisher of Stonehewer Books, introduces the author
Sileika in conversation with award-winning author Joe Kertes
Photos by Jordan Grace
Jann Everard’s Blue Runaways in That Shakespearean Rag:
Steven Beattie writes that if Blue Runaways “is any indication of the calibre of writing we can expect in the future, [Stonehewer Books] promises to be a publisher to watch in the coming months and years.”
“Intelligent and observant… illuminates the experiences of a little-discussed ethnic group while probing the meanings of real and imagined homelands.”
Provisionally Yours by Antanas Sileika, author of Stonehewer’s forthcoming The Death of Tony, has been adapted into a feature film. Directed by Ramunas Rudokas, the film premiered in Lithuania on November 24, 2023.
“When I told friends of mine in the business that I was starting a press — a couple of really experienced people — they both said, don’t do it!”