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Vanilla and Other Stories

By Candas Jane Dorsey

When Candas Jane Dorsey says “vanilla” she’s not talking about ice cream. She’s referring to sex, of the plain and straightforward variety, and she’s pushing her readers to think about other, less predictable ways of ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Oxygen

By Annabel Lyon

What’s happening in Vancouver? The availability of high-grade espresso may be responsible, but the city’s newest fiction writers are certainly subverting the regional stereotype of West Coast mellow. The past couple of years have seen ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Pull Gently, Tear Here

By Alexandra Leggat

The motives that compel a writer to create very short fiction are various, but whatever the reason for a story’s length, one rule remains constant: the fewer the words, the more crucial each one becomes. ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ A Message for Mr. Lazarus

By Barbara Lambert

With the publication of A Message for Mr. Lazarus, Barbara Lambert joins the growing throng of first-rate female short story writers in Canada. In her debut collection – following a novel, The Allegra Series – ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Getting Lucky

Critical Etiquette Rule # 96: Ignore the book’s author. Get rid of him.We became intimate with Matt Cohen last fall when he won the Governor General’s Award for Elizabeth and After. We saw him ridicule ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Very Good Butter

John Lavery, to judge from his debut collection of short stories Very Good Butter, obviously missed that creative writing class where the instructor counselled the students to write about what they know. Abandoning the autobiographical ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Exhibitions: Tales of Sex in the City

By Michele Davidson, ed.

Exhibitions, an anthology of erotic short stories combining sex with travel, succeeds on certain levels but fails on others. The foreword, by Bust magazine editor Debbie Stoller, explains that sex is a type of journey ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Rhymes with Useless

By Terence Young

Reading a collection of short stories from cover to cover is a little like tackling the collected works of a novelist all in a row: after a while the reader finds motifs and themes repeating ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Marrow and Other Stories

It’s not surprising that a collection of short stories entitled Marrow (the kind found in bones) and containing a novella called Flesh would be preoccupied with the body. All the stories in Nora Gold’s debut ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ The Love of a Good Woman

Any new collection by Alice Munro is an eagerly awaited event, and despite the hype that the publishing industry is wont to practice, Munro is one of a few living writers who prove worthy of ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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