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Until her nomination for this year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize, Carol Windley was perennially under-known, though her stories have appeared in the Journey Prize Anthology and Best Canadian Stories, and her first collection, Visible Light, was ... Read More »

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The View from Castle Rock

By Alice Munro

I hope it can be said without sounding glib or condescending that one of the favourite literary genres for Canadians of a certain age and social background to try out is the family history/memoir. These ... Read More »

November 1, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Destiny’s Telescope and Other Stories

By Richard Scarsbrook

Toronto-based author, poet, and musician Richard Scarsbrook is probably best known as the writer of Cheeseburger Subversive, a popular and award-winning YA novel. In Destiny’s Telescope, Scarsbrook offers up his first short story collection for ... Read More »

September 18, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Pleased to Meet You

By Caroline Adderson

There are a large number of people who just don’t like short stories, who find tales of a dozen pages or so, one after the other, too distracting. They want to sink their teeth into ... Read More »

September 18, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Gargoyles

By Bill Gaston

The image of the gargoyle that presides over the 12 stories in this compelling and highly original collection by Giller-nominated author Bill Gaston is an apt one. The stony fixity of the gargoyle is akin ... Read More »

August 14, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Indigenous Beasts

By Nathan Sellyn

Yet another debut collection by a young male author destined to be labelled “edgy,” Nathan Sellyn’s Indigenous Beasts features what is becoming a typical cast of characters for fiction of this ilk: dealers, users, ravers, ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Tales of Two Cities

By George Fetherling

Desire, adultery, divorce, guilt, therapy – “A Tale of Two Cities,” the riskily titled novella that makes up the bulk of George Fetherling’s new book, covers ground made most familiar by Woody Allen films. A ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Work of Mercy

By Stephen Guppy

Stories of kids coping with broken homes are hard to pull off, not only because they’ve been told so often, but because they risk getting mired in the saccharine. But the nine stories in Stephen ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Saving Rome

By Megan K. Williams

People have a tendency to romanticize places like Rome. We think of ancient ruins, glamorous Italians with dazzling smiles and sexy accents, fabulous cafés, and zippy red sports cars. But once you’ve lived there, breathing ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

The Virgin Spy

By Krista Bridge

This engaging debut collection of nine short stories by Toronto author Krista Bridge contains an assortment of compelling, intriguing, likable, moody, and introspective heroines. Stories in The Virgin Spy focus on domestic life and the ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

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