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Biblioasis, Jan. Vancouver writer Keath Fraser is one of this country’s most robust and individual literary voices; though despite a career that includes winning the Chapters/ Books in Canada First Novel Award for 1995’s Popular Anatomy and being nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award for the story collection Foreign Affairs a decade earlier, he is generally consigned to cult status at best in Canada. With luck, all that will change in spring, when Biblioasis releases not one but two editions of the author’s work. The massive retrospective volume Damages features stories...

The Maid: Florence Pugh to Star in Universal’s New Murder Mystery Film The Maid: Florence Pugh to Star in Universal’s New Murder Mystery Film In an intense bidding war against multiple studios, Deadline brings word Universal Pictures has successfully won the rights to author Nita Prose’s upcoming debut novel titled The Maid. The studio is currently in the process of developing a film adaptation of the murder mystery novel with Oscar-nominated actress Florence Pugh officially signing on for the titular leading role. Described as a mix between the charm of Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Olip...

Deadline, which says Pugh will play the eponymous maid, a woman who works at a fancy hotel and “leaves every room perfect and pristine” while also “getting to know each guest’s dirty secrets.” One could argue that this makes her very bad at her job, but either way, her penchant for snooping comes in handy when a guest is murdered and she decides to try and solve the mystery. Deadline describes it as a “ Clue-like, locked-room whodunnit.” Advertisement Interestingly, and in what may be an inadvertent way to keep people from spoiling the solution to the mystery, Deadline also s...

Florence Pugh to star in Agatha Christie-inspired murder mystery The Maid Sam Barsanti Florence Pugh, who would’ve had a star-making appearance in Black Widow by now if the pandemic hadn’t screwed things up (luckily she had star-making appearances in Deadline, which says Pugh will play the eponymous maid, a woman who works at a fancy hotel and “leaves every room perfect and pristine” while also “getting to know each guest’s dirty secrets.” One could argue that this makes her very bad at her job, but either way, her penchant for snooping comes in handy when a gu...