Outskirts: Women Writing from Small Places

I began to worry while reading the introduction to Outskirts. Politely informed that “Outskirts is an anthology that gives rural women a voice,” I couldn’t help but think that if any single demographic has fully ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Ground Works: Avant Garde for Thee

By Christian Bök, ed.

Ground Works was published in part, as Margaret Atwood declares in her introduction, to correct the impression that “there was nothing unorthodox in this country before folks started getting their tongues pierced.” Editor Christian Bök ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

The Vice Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll

By Suroosh Alvi, Gavin McInnes, and Shane Smith, eds

In the mid 1990s three motley, smart-ass Canadian guys – Suroosh Alvi, Gavin McInnes, and Shane Smith – fell to earth from, respectively, a stint in narco rehab, a make-work welfare program, and a no-future ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Original Minds

By Eleanor Wachtel

Imagine a lively cocktail party filled with fascinating people, like former Goon Show star Jonathan Miller, chimp specialist Jane Goodall, neurologist Oliver Sacks, filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, scholar Harold Bloom, and urban planner Jane Jacobs. Imagine ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Anthologies

Hard Boiled Love: An Anthology of Noir Love

By Kerry Schooley and Peter Sellers, eds.

Hard Boiled Love, the follow-up to last year’s Iced anthology of noir fiction, gets off to a shaky start, but ends up succeeding on the strength of four or five solid tales and one unexpected ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Anthologies

The I.v. Lounge Reader

By Paul Vermeersch, ed.

The I.V. Lounge Reader is just about as far from the genteel literary sensibilites of much Canadian writing as Vancouver is from St. John’s. Ivy League it isn’t. Consisting of works chosen from the writers ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Anthologies

Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast

By Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane, eds.

Many famous writers have been addicted to alcohol or drugs; the names of Malcolm Lowry, William S. Burroughs, Margaret Laurence, and Gwendolyn MacEwen come immediately to mind. But those who wrote about their addictions often ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Anthologies

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