Nights in a Foreign Country

Nights in a Foreign Country is a group of self-consciously literary short stories by a young Cape Breton-born author who lives in London, England, and has spent time in France and Latin America. This has ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Wish Book: A Catalogue of Stories

By Derek McCormack

If, say, Flannery O’Connor and oh, say, David Lynch were to meet in, let’s just say, a fetish club somewhere, and decide that they were born to collaborate, the product of their mindmeld might read ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

We Could Stay Here All Night

By Debbie Howlett

Reading We Could Stay Here All Night, a collection of 12 linked stories by Montreal writer Debbie Howlett, is like consuming a designer martini – it’s small and flows like silk, but packs a punch.The ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Southern Stories

By Clark Blaise

There’s a telling scene in “A North American Education,” one of 13 stories in Southern Stories, the first volume in a new series of Clark Blaise’s collected shorter works. The teenaged narrator and his father, ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Japanese Baseball and Other Stories

By W.P. Kinsella

Authors of short story collections are like major league hitters. Each story is a trip to the plate, a time at bat where one can hit a home run or strike out on three pages. ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Vinyl Cafe Unplugged

By Stuart McLean

There is a curious paradox to broadcaster and writer Stuart McLean: how does someone whose writing is so resolutely (and deliberately) unfashionable become so popular? Or, to put it another way, why are his stories, ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

What’s Left Us

By Aislinn Hunter

The stories and novella in Aislinn Hunter’s What’s Left Us concern themselves with young women muddling their way through love affairs and family entanglements both mundane and dramatic. Hunter’s storytelling voice is savvy and contemporary, ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

The Middle Stories

By Sheila Heti

Despite the numerous death-of-fiction pronouncements made over the last half-century, some writers continue to search for ways to reanimate the form. Toronto’s Sheila Heti is one such writer. In her first collection of fiction she ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

What Men Know About Women

By Ron Smith

In this debut collection of six stories and five mini-fictions, poet and publisher Ron Smith explores the complexities of relationships between men and women. The six longer stories are thoughtful and reflective, mainly from the ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Day the Women Went to Town: 16 Stories by Women from Cape Breton

By Ronald Caplan, ed.

There should be a warning on the cover of Carmelita McGrath’s stunning short story collection: “Do Not Read This If You Are Even Slightly Depressed.”McGrath’s protagonists are mostly women stuck in dead-end or abusive relationships ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

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