Red Plaid Shirt: Stories New & Selected

Diane Schoemperlen is something of an acquired taste in the smorgasbord of Canadian fiction, but there’s no doubt that more and more readers are acquiring that taste. After labouring in the obscurity of the literary ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Real Life

By Sharon Butala

We’ve grown used to thinking of evil – if we think of it at all – as something monstrous, destruction you can’t wrap your mind around. Evil is the Holocaust, Sept. 11, war in Rwanda. ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Habits and Love

By Rod Schumacher

Many of the characters in Habits and Love, Alberta writer Rod Schumacher’s first collection of stories, are caught deep in the web of their own lives, trying to think and feel their way out to ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Book of Ifs and Buts

By Rabindranath Maharaj

Rabindranath Maharaj has already published three well-received books of fiction, including The Interloper, a story collection nominated for the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book. But while this collection of eight stories and a novella ... Read More »

January 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ All the Men Are Sleeping

By D.R. MacDonald

D.R. MacDonald is a writer of enormous talent, skill, and, it seems, patience. Like Alistair MacLeod, he hails from Cape Breton, the setting of most of his stories. Also like MacLeod, who at 66 has ... Read More »

January 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Ascent of Eli Israel

By Jon Papernick

Jon Papernick’s first collection of stories, The Ascent of Eli Israel, is a subtle, chilling, and wistful “celebration” of the war-torn devastation and spiritual stoicism that afflicts modern-day Israel. These stories are raw, yet uncannily ... Read More »

January 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Wound Ballistics

By Steven Manners

Steven Manners’ new book of short fiction has little relation to most of CanLit’s current isms, from postmodernism and historicism to transculturalism. The stories read like darker updates of vintage New Yorker fiction, offering opaque, ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

A Hard Witching and Other Stories

By Jacqueline Baker

Jacqueline Baker’s stories of the Sand Hills region of Saskatchewan seem at first to belong to the Dust Bowl era of drought and dwindling communities on land that gives back less than it takes. There’s ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

When X Equals Marylou

By Tamas Dobozy

The stories in When X Equals Marylou, the second collection from Tamas Dobozy, are the literary equivalent of broken glass in a spoonful of honey. They go down smoothly, with a bit of prickling, then ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Writers Talking

By John Metcalf and Claire Wilkshire, eds.

For this new Porcupine’s Quill anthology of short fiction, John Metcalf and co-editor Claire Wilkshire have selected eight stories by eight different authors: Michael Winter, Lisa Moore, Steven Heighton, Mary Borsky, K.D. Miller, Terry Griggs, ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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