A good short story doesn’t draw you in – it doesn’t have the time. You have to park your own world and enter the characters’ by the end of the first page. In this, his ... Read More »
March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
You’ve probably had dreams like these. You know the ones: They unfold in your head like elaborate 3-D movies. You watch with a sense of detachment, marvelling at the intricate yet coherent plotting, the compelling ... Read More »
March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
In 1978 Raymond Fraser’s The Bannonbridge Musicians was nominated for a Governor General’s Award. This is the first time since then that the Maritime writer has broken his fictional silence in book form, though a ... Read More »
March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
Read Saskatchewan’s Ven Begamudré as an ethnic writer, and Laterna Magika repeats a familiar version of Canadian immigrants’ quandaries. Minorities, the eight stories suggest, dangle in an intellectual limbo between origin and end. While Begamudré’s ... Read More »
March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
The title story in Shree Ghatage’s first collection, Awake When All the World Is Asleep, comes from a conversation between two servants in a middle-class Bombay apartment building. When one character complains about being sent ... Read More »
March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
When Aurora Montrealis first appeared a year ago, francophone readers embraced its multi-faceted reflection of post-referendum Quebec. A superb translation by Matt Cohen now allows anglophones to step through the looking glass to marvel, “Why, ... Read More »
March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
Sheldon Currie came to national attention with the film version of his short story “The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum,” and with the publication of the novel, which he wrote to provide additional material for the ... Read More »
March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
Dennis Bock, former literary editor of the magazine Blood & Aphorisms, tells this “novel in eight stories” from the perspective of a suburban Toronto boy grappling with the shattered history of his immigrant German family. ... Read More »
March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
Be warned: despite the old-fashioned type face, the woodcuts, the prayer-book layout and the title, Diane Schoemperlen’s Forms of Devotion is not the sort of book you’d find in the dusty bookcase of your most ... Read More »
March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
Judith Kalman’s The County of Birches is a collection of 14 linked stories that attempts to transform history into fiction, to make biography into art.The names are different, but the characters are those found in ... Read More »
March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
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