Anthologies

Love and Pomegranates: An Anthology of Short Fiction

In her introduction, Rona Murray states that she and fellow editor Garry McKevitt chose the 12 short stories in this anthology of emerging writers because they are bound together by a “similar sense of alienation.” ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Northern Wild: Best Contemporary Canadian Nature Writing

By David R. Boyd, ed.

It is somewhat curious that Canada, a country very much aware of its natural heritage and with an abundance of nature writing (both in periodicals and books), lacks significant, contemporary anthologies of nature writing. Despite ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English

By Rosemary Sullivan, ed.

Introduction to Literary Journalism AssignmentReviewing a Big AnthologyWord limit350 words exactlyGuidelinesThis endeavour may pose intriguing methodological problems for the reviewer, experienced or novice. Should we review the editor? Individual writers? Is there any point in ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Iced: The New Noir Anthology of Cold, Hard Fiction

By Kerry J. Schooley and Peter Sellers, eds.

Despite their overheated introduction, in which they refer to Iced as “an Uzi in a literary hothouse,” editors Kerry J. Schooley and Peter Sellers understand that noir fiction, like revenge, is a dish best served ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Outskirts: Women Writing from Small Places

By Emily Schultz,ed.

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

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