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Need

By Robert Thomson

The best short stories (think of those by Alice Munro, James Joyce, and Raymond Carver) resonate with the reader long after the covers are closed, and yield more on each subsequent reading. Most short stories ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Hot & Bothered 2: Short Short Fiction on Lesbian Desire

By Karen X. Tulchinsky, ed.

Karen X. Tulchinsky and James C. Johnstone, co-editors of the Queer View Mirror 1 and 2 anthologies, each went on to produce successful books about gay and lesbian desire in 1998: Hot & Bothered (for ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Quickies 2: Short Short Fiction on Gay Male Desire

By James C. Johnstone, ed.

Karen X. Tulchinsky and James C. Johnstone, co-editors of the Queer View Mirror 1 and 2 anthologies, each went on to produce successful books about gay and lesbian desire in 1998: Hot & Bothered (for ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Aquarium

Mike Barnes’s first book, a poetry collection, was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. His follow-up, Aquarium, a collection of stories, falls short of superlatives, though it ought to earn the writer a label ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Things You Don’t Forget

By Robert Currie

The prairie wind breathes across the pages of Currie’s 11 stories, set in Saskatchewan. All deal with aspects of life that have left indelible impressions on the main characters. Several are reminiscences from times past, ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Thirteen Shades of Black and White

By Michael Bryson

Michael Bryson populates his first story collection with a familiar platoon of the urban alienated. There are old and young, boys and girls, all sleepwalking through relationships that don’t quite qualify as such, and sex ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ God’s Spies: Stories in Defiance of Oppression

By Alberto Manguel, ed.

This surpassingly humanitarian collection of fiction features stories of political resistance against some of the most malignant governmental regimes of the century. The 22 contributors speak from Asia, Africa, the U.K., South America, and from ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Dressing up for the Carnival

By Carol Shields

V.S. Pritchett used to say that he wrote short stories because he was a man of short breath. Raymond Carver’s excuse (as reported by Richard Ford): he was drunk a lot and the kids were ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Play the Monster Blind

In her first collection of short stories, erstwhile Cape Bretoner Lynn Coady mines much the same ground she did in her award-winning debut novel, Strange Heaven. In Play the Monster Blind, Coady affects the same ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Peony Season

By Sarah Klassen

In her impressive first collection of short stories, Sarah Klassen, a Mennonite writer based in Winnipeg, explores human spirituality through a series of meditative portraits of contemporary life in southern Manitoba.The title story exemplifies Klassen’s ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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