Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew

Stuart Ross’s 2010 story collection, Buying Cigarettes for the Dog, enjoyed an enthusiastic critical reception and won the ReLit Award for short fiction. The Toronto author follows this success with a first novel: a slim ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ By Love Possessed

By Lorna Goodison

Lorna Goodison’s first book of short stories provides a fine example of the poet and memoirist’s brand of simple storytelling mixed with Jamaican patois. The stories feature characters possessed as much by the spectre of ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Something About the Animal

By Cathy Stonehouse

Cathy Stonehouse’s debut collection contains one heartbreaking situation after another: sexual abuse, mental illness, loneliness, and death pervade the book. However, Stonehouse’s spare prose reveals the hidden layers of her vulnerable characters with great precision, ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Dogs at the Perimeter

By Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien’s 2006 debut novel, Certainty, about a Vancouver radio producer haunted by events in her Asian expat parents’ pasts, garnered high praise and marked her as a writer to watch. Her follow-up does not ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Anticipated Results

By Dennis E. Bolen

Vancouver writer Dennis E. Bolen’s seventh work of fiction, a collection of linked stories, shows a writer at the top of his game. The stories are so closely linked they read like a novel, making ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Monoceros

By Suzette Mayr

With relentless intensity, the opening of Suzette Mayr’s fourth novel traces the joys and despairs of 17-year-old Patrick Furey in the final days before his suicide. Although he dies in the first chapter, Furey remains ... Read More »

May 24, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Pretty

By Greg Kearney

A fraudulent Celtic seer instructs a moody artist considering gender transition to act upon the desire by age 36 – or risk being decapitated. This is a fairly typical storyline in Greg Kearney’s second collection, ... Read More »

May 16, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter

By Carmen Aguirre

Carmen Aguirre was destined to become a revolutionary. Born a week after the death of Che Guevara, Aguirre grew up in a household obsessed with social upheaval: her mother and stepfather were part of the ... Read More »

May 13, 2011 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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By Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler

Over time, various art projects have sprung out of new technologies, and this new effort from poets Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler must have been enormously fun to generate. In much the same vein as ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry

City of Love and Revolution: Vancouver in the Sixties

By Lawrence Aronsen

Lawrence Aronsen was a student activist in Vancouver during the 1960s. He’s now a professor of history at the University of Alberta. This combination makes him a logical person to write about the West Coast ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: History

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Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew

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Something About the Animal

★ Dogs at the Perimeter

★ Anticipated Results

Monoceros

★ Pretty

★ Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter

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City of Love and Revolution: Vancouver in the Sixties

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