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★ Dead Girls

By Nancy Lee

Dead Girls, the debut offering from Vancouver writer Nancy Lee, is completely free of the tentativeness or uncertainty shown by so many first-time authors. A loosely connected collection of short stories, Dead Girls heralds the ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Blur

By Michelle Berry

High-pulp authors from Raymond Chandler to Robert Ferrigno to the newest sensation, Bruce Wagner, have taken the beautiful horror of Los Angeles – its sheen, its viciousness, its generations of celebrity skin – and from ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Rush Home Road

By Lori Lansens

While wonderful novels about the black immigrant experience are not uncommon in Canada, few novelists, black or white, have written about the country’s long-settled black communities. First-time novelist Lori Lansens – a white screenwriter living ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Salvage

By Michael Crummey

In his poetry, short stories, and his novel, River Thieves, Michael Crummey makes effortless music on the page. Like a sculptor giving equal attention to the immediate carved surface and the overall shape he has ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

The Wife’s Account

By Esta Spalding

The Wife’s Account is Esta Spalding’s fourth book of poetry in just over seven years. In the vividly imagistic style that has established her reputation, the collection (we are told on the dust jacket) encapsulates ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry