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The Clichéist

By Amanda Lamarche

The title of B.C. poet Amanda Lamarche’s debut collection is an open invitation to critics. Fortunately, there are few clichés of the glaring variety to be found here.If there is a too-standard element to Lamarche’s ... Read More »

April 7, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

Gutted

By Evie Christie

While it’s not yet clear whether confession is, in fact, good for the soul (the eschatological jury is still out), one thing is clear: the confessional mode has resulted in a lot of bad poetry. ... Read More »

April 7, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

How Happy to Be

By Katrina Onstad

How Happy to Be is set in Toronto and revolves around Maxine, a thirtysomething entertainment journalist labouring at the fictional neo-con newspaper The Daily. She doesn’t find her job, or her life, particularly satisfying, and ... Read More »

April 7, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fabrizio’s Return

By Mark Frutkin

Alchemy, astronomy, cuckoldry, and would-be saints – Mark Frutkin’s newest novel, his 10th, is as full of action and ribaldry as an Italian commedia cellaret or a comedy by Shakespeare. Given that, Fabrizio’s Return should ... Read More »

April 3, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Showbiz

By Jason Anderson

Appearing nightly: Las Vegas’s newest star and the country’s most ring-a-ding-ding impressionist, Jimmy Wynn! For his first novel, Jason Anderson has created a sort of parallel-universe Kennedy era (known here as the “Cannon era,” after ... Read More »

April 3, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels