Quickies 2: Short Short Fiction on Gay Male Desire

Karen X. Tulchinsky and James C. Johnstone, co-editors of the Queer View Mirror 1 and 2 anthologies, each went on to produce successful books about gay and lesbian desire in 1998: Hot & Bothered (for ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Aquarium

By Mike Barnes

Mike Barnes’s first book, a poetry collection, was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. His follow-up, Aquarium, a collection of stories, falls short of superlatives, though it ought to earn the writer a label ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Things You Don’t Forget

By Robert Currie

The prairie wind breathes across the pages of Currie’s 11 stories, set in Saskatchewan. All deal with aspects of life that have left indelible impressions on the main characters. Several are reminiscences from times past, ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Monkey Beach

By Eden Robinson

Haisla-Heiltsuk writer Eden Robinson’s first book was a collection of four stories, Traplines. In 1996, it opened to New York raves and Canadian reserve (pun intended): pretty good for a beginner. Her subsequent New Face ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Thirteen Shades of Black and White

By Michael Bryson

Michael Bryson populates his first story collection with a familiar platoon of the urban alienated. There are old and young, boys and girls, all sleepwalking through relationships that don’t quite qualify as such, and sex ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Atonement

By Gaétan Soucy,Sheila Fischman, trans.

Gaétan Soucy’s novel Atonement is as carefully put together and as disturbing as a painting by Belgian artist René Magritte. Although the surrealist painter meticulously represents a familiar world, Magritte’s universe, like Soucy’s, seems ordered ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Going Down Swinging

By Billie Livingston

Billie Livingston’s first novel sympathetically witnesses the precarious existence of a single mother and her seven-year-old daughter Grace in the early 1970s. Briefly a teacher, Eilleen Hoffmann has fallen into the service of alcohol, pills, ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Miss Wyoming

By Douglas Coupland

I’m one of those people who thought Douglas Coupland’s Generation X (1991) was interesting writing and not just sociologically hip Zeitgeist charting. Nearly a decade, and a half-dozen Coupland books later, Gen X (I reread ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ God’s Spies: Stories in Defiance of Oppression

By Alberto Manguel, ed.

This surpassingly humanitarian collection of fiction features stories of political resistance against some of the most malignant governmental regimes of the century. The 22 contributors speak from Asia, Africa, the U.K., South America, and from ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Kilt

By Jonathan Wilson

There are figurative and literal deserts in this play: the real desert is Tobruk, a port on the Mediterranean Coast, while the emotional deserts exist in the mind of Tom Robertson, a young exotic dancer ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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Quickies 2: Short Short Fiction on Gay Male Desire

Aquarium

Things You Don’t Forget

Monkey Beach

Thirteen Shades of Black and White

The Atonement

Going Down Swinging

Miss Wyoming

★ God’s Spies: Stories in Defiance of Oppression

Kilt

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