Freedom’s Just Another Word

In Dakota Hamilton’s first novel, Freedom’s Just Another Word, Maggie Hoffer is accused of murdering her husband and awaits trial in a maximum security jail. Her husband was hotter for his Harley than for Maggie ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Handless Maiden

By Loranne Brown

It’s a good thing Mariah Standhoffer is a survivor because there’s an awful lot for her to endure in Loranne Brown’s first novel The Handless Maiden. As a young girl, Mariah is routinely sodomized by ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Time Capsule: New and Selected Poems

By Pat Lowther

A violent death will often overshadow a life. From poet Sylvia Plath to rapper Notorious B.I.G., there are those whose work will forever be searched for clues about their deaths. West Coast poet Pat Lowther, ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Salvage King, Ya! (a Herky Jerky Picaresque)

By Mark Anthony Jarman

Mark Anthony Jarman’s first novel, Salvage King, Ya!, is subtitled “A Herky Jerky Picaresque.” And herky jerky it is. The story is delivered through a series of brief elliptical paragraphs that hang together in numbered ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Rare Birds

By Edward Riche

Dave Purcell’s entrepreneurial response to being restructured out of fisheries is a brilliant little bistro in Push Cove on the outskirts of St. John’s. Though he hoped to attract the city’s emerald set, and prospering ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Taste of a Man

By Slavenka Drakulic,Christina Pribichevich Zoric, trans.

Call it the revenge of the edible woman. Almost 30 years after Margaret Atwood’s Marian McAlpin baked a cake in the shape of a gal – complete with bright pink icing dress and chocolate curls ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Writing Romance

By Vanessa Grant

For the romance-novel addict who’s always dreamed of becoming an author, or the writer who wants to conquer the genre romance form, this guide will make the transition from reading to writing seem more inviting ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Double Drink Story: My Life with Dylan Thomas

By Caitlin Thomas

For a world drunk on a cocktail of cyber-irony – millennial fever mixed with a distrust of history and nostalgia – the poetry of the first half of this century has become a large and ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Byron: The Flawed Angel

By Phyllis Grosskurth

Whatever one’s opinion of his epic poems “Childe Harold” and “Don Juan,” or of his innumerable lesser outpourings, Lord Byron set the modern standard for heroism that remains visible in much of today’s literature, cinema, ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Marguerite Bourgeoys and Montreal, 1640–1655

By Patricia Simpson

“The life of Marguerite Bourgeoys can tell us something about relationships between men and women in society and in the church, about contacts between North Americans of native and non-native origin, about the treatment of ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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