{"id":222989,"date":"2025-10-18T20:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/222989\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T20:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:20:18","slug":"new-in-paper-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/222989\/","title":{"rendered":"New in paper \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tell Me Pleasant Things About<br \/>\nImmortality: Stories<\/p>\n<p>By Lindsay Wong<br \/>\n(Penguin Canada, $23)<\/p>\n<p>The Winnipeg-based author\u2019s collection brings together otherwordly creatures and immigrants in a range of horror-tinged stories.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3655268_web1_Tell-Me-Pleasant-Things-About-Immortality.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"1328\" data-pswp-height=\"2048\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3655268_web1_Tell-Me-Pleasant-Things-About-Immortality.jpg\" alt=\"Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mcnallyrobinson.com\/product;isbn,9780735242388;at,aid5c4747e11fe2d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Buy on mcnallyrobinson.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shock Induction:<br \/>\nA Novel<\/p>\n<p>By Chuck Palahniuk<br \/>\n(Simon &amp; Schuster, $25)<\/p>\n<p>An online service for billionaires that recruits young, bright students sees high school kids offered untold wealth in exchange for their lives.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tWinnipeg Free Press | Newsletter\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tile-applause-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sign up for Jill Wilson | Applause\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mcnallyrobinson.com\/product;isbn,9781668021453;at,aid5c4747e11fe2d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Buy on mcnallyrobinson.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3655268_web1_Shock-Induction.jpg\" data-pswp-width=\"787\" data-pswp-height=\"1200\" data-pswp-><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3655268_web1_Shock-Induction.jpg\" alt=\"Shock Induction\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shock Induction<\/p>\n<p>Playground:<br \/>\nA Novel<\/p>\n<p>By Richard Powers<br \/>\n(Vintage, $26)<\/p>\n<p>A love triangle splinters the friendships of those involved as one goes into literature, another into art and the third becomes a tech billionaire with a debilitating brain disease.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mcnallyrobinson.com\/product;isbn,9781039011571;at,aid5c4747e11fe2d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Buy on mcnallyrobinson.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3655268_web1_Playground.jpg\" data-pswp-width=\"1327\" data-pswp-height=\"2048\" data-pswp-><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3655268_web1_Playground.jpg\" alt=\"Playground\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Playground<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality: Stories By Lindsay Wong (Penguin Canada, $23) The Winnipeg-based author\u2019s collection brings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75],"class_list":["post-222989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}