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Thought You Were Dead

By Terry Griggs

The increasing corporatization of Canadian publishing has left more than a few authors and cultural commentators grumbling about a bottom-line, cookie-cutter approach to everything from manuscript acquisition to cover design. This perceived homogenization and its ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The English Stories

By Cynthia Flood

The increasing corporatization of Canadian publishing has left more than a few authors and cultural commentators grumbling about a bottom-line, cookie-cutter approach to everything from manuscript acquisition to cover design. This perceived homogenization and its ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Night Is a Mouth

By Lisa Foad

In The Night Is a Mouth, Lisa Foad’s first collection of short stories, the protagonists are almost exclusively women: vulnerable and downtrodden women, women who had it rough as girls, women who could use a ... Read More »

April 22, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Breaking Lorca

By Giles Blunt

Current popular culture has an almost unholy fascination with torture, from the singleminded Jack Bauer on 24 to the seemingly innumerable Saw films. Award-winning crime writer Giles Blunt contributes to this canon in Breaking Lorca, ... Read More »

April 22, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Porny Stories

By Eva Moran

When Canadian writers turn to the subject of sex, they tend to become a tad prudish. Perhaps a vestige of colonial uptightness is to blame. Perhaps it’s our inherent politesse. Whatever the cause, sex in ... Read More »

April 22, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Heaven Is Small

By Emily Schultz

According to Emily Schultz, Heaven is located somewhere in North Toronto – among packing houses and printing plants in a mirrored, 70-storey behemoth. This isn’t the prototypical hereafter with the pearly gates and cherubs. This ... Read More »

April 22, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels