Quill and Quire

Fiction: Short

★ Aurora Montrealis

By Monique Proulx

When Aurora Montrealis first appeared a year ago, francophone readers embraced its multi-faceted reflection of post-referendum Quebec. A superb translation by Matt Cohen now allows anglophones to step through the looking glass to marvel, “Why, ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Story So Far

By Sheldon Currie

Sheldon Currie came to national attention with the film version of his short story “The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum,” and with the publication of the novel, which he wrote to provide additional material for the ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Olympia

By Dennis Bock

Dennis Bock, former literary editor of the magazine Blood & Aphorisms, tells this “novel in eight stories” from the perspective of a suburban Toronto boy grappling with the shattered history of his immigrant German family. ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Naked Eye

By William Burrill

Now, more than ever – when our first Nagano champion turned out to be a pot-smokin’ dude and when Ice Storm ’98 prompted all the international media coverage of a broken light bulb in a ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Smell It

By Hal Niedzviecki

I looked forward to Smell It, to a collection of short, short stories by the editor of the Toronto ’zine Broken Pencil, because Niedzviecki’s nonfiction is usually contemporary and trenchant in equal measures. I prepared ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short