The Breakdown So Far

This collection of (very) short stories and literary snapshots is billed as “an unsparing critique” of North American mall culture. It is unsparing. It’s also sometimes witty and clever. Unfortunately, it’s often so busy sneering ... Read More »

April 4, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

The Five-Hole Stories

By Dave Bidini

When hockey wordsmith and Rheostatics guitarist Dave Bidini enters a rink, he doesn’t see sticks, pucks, nets, or ice; he sees metaphors. This can be fun, for a while.In this quickie read, Bidini offers up ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Sugar Bush & Other Stories

By Jenn Farrell

While reading Jenn Farrell’s debut collection of short fiction, Sugar Bush, I began to wonder if she had gone to my high school. Her characters seemed eerily familiar. Did we know the same people? Had ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Suburban Pornography and Other Stories

By Matthew Firth

The first story in Matthew Firth’s new collection is entitled “Sheila Crawford Sucks Cocks.” Firth is a confrontational writer, and by placing this story at the very start he is clearly issuing both a warning ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Bang Crunch

By Neil Smith

There is a school of writing – let’s call it the Dave Eggers school – that prizes cleverness above all other attributes. Not wit, mind you, but cleverness. The kind of cleverness that has an ... Read More »

March 22, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Christmas Tree: Two Tales for the Holidays

By David Adams Richards; Vince McIndoe, illus.

There’s nothing like the commissioning of a holiday volume to herald a writer’s induction into the CanLit canon. David Adams Richards steps up with the stocking-stuffer-sized The Christmas Tree. The book contains two very short ... Read More »

February 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Zero Gravity

By Sharon English

Zero Gravity is Sharon English’s second book of short stories. Unlike those of English’s 2002 debut, Uncomfortably Numb, these stories are not interconnected via a narrator, though there is a pervasive theme to the collection ... Read More »

January 24, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Moral Disorder

By Margaret Atwood

Unwary readers attempting to read Moral Disorder as a novel – an easy mistake given the lack of direction on the cover – do so at their own peril. Diligent readers who look at the ... Read More »

January 24, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Lanzmann and Other Stories

By Damian Tarnopolsky

The chances that a collection of short fiction will contain nothing but solid, well-written, and engaging tales are, regrettably, slight. Lanzmann and Other Stories, Damian Tarnopolsky’s debut, is a collection with several winning pieces, a ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Skids

By Cathleen With

“Skids” is the slang term for street kids or runaways living in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Many of them are native Canadians, many are HIV-positive, and many are addicted to heroin, crystal meth, or alcohol. They ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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The Breakdown So Far

The Five-Hole Stories

Sugar Bush & Other Stories

★ Suburban Pornography and Other Stories

Bang Crunch

The Christmas Tree: Two Tales for the Holidays

Zero Gravity

Moral Disorder

Lanzmann and Other Stories

Skids

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