From For Sure, France Daigle. Trans. Robert Majzels. Anansi Press, 2013. Robert Majzels is a novelist, poet, playwright and translator. He lives in Calgary. Click on the image below to view…
Category: Prose & Narrative
From Pour sûr. Boréal, 2011. France Daigle is a prize-winning Acadian writer of novels and plays in French. Her novel Pour sûr not only won her first GG award, but also received the Prix…
That night I dreamt that I was a forty-year old woman, and my husband was a retired colonel. He was running a community center in a poor neighborhood, and his…
Should You Experience an Erection Lasting More than Four Hours . . . and Further Guidance by Donald Anderson HERE’S WHAT YOU’VE HEARD: Don’t eat at a place called “Mom’s,” don’t…
by John C. Goodman “I declare,” she sobbed, “I never was so cut up since your mama and my papa not Doyce and Clennam for this once but give the…
Methuselah I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be. —Joan Didion “Of course I’m going to climb it,” the woman said, looking at…
Every Thing Rustles, Jane Silcott. Anvil, 2013. Drunk Mom, Jowita Bydlowska. Doubleday Canada, 2013. by Sina Queyras “But that Montreal scene, I say, cringing.” –Sarah Hampson I had always planned to read Drunk Mom, the…
Misreadings: Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House by Jonathan Ball Misreadings imagines alternative (or détourned) versions of literary and film works, and subjects these nonexistent imaginings to analysis. Let’s…
Chapter Three: O in CO “Last night again, I dreamed that I was dead,” O thinks, “or am I dead and dreaming now? I dreamt that I was Kathy Acker,…
REPRIEVE The demands of our personal salvations pose the challenge. Despite our commitment to making things or perhaps because of it, we are ill-equipped to accommodate the immediate occurrences of…
Clarity is not accessibility. Accessibility is not simplistic. Brevity isn’t minimalism. Oblique is often too much distance. Less is not always more. Excess is not experimental. One room needs to…
Then, one Saturday, John came in to see me three times during my shift. Right before he left the last time, he leaned in really close. He smelled kind of…