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By Carrie Snyder

Like her first book, Hair Hat, Carrie Snyder’s sophomore offering is a collection of linked short stories. Here they are arranged in a novelistic arc, following the titular heroine from a childhood caught between foreign ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

By Jeffrey Round

Jeffrey Round’s sixth novel can’t quite decide what it wants to be. It is alternately a lyrical evocation of one of Ontario’s strangest phenomena, Prince Edward County’s elevated lake, which never runs dry despite lacking ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Howard Shrier

In the acknowledgments for Boston Cream, Howard Shrier writes that he reread all the novels of Dennis Lehane, the early novels in Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series, and other old favourites “to deepen my sense ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels