Hair Hat

Short stories, like poems, are often more adept than novels at showcasing tail-ends of thoughts and strange whiffs of emotion. Stories cruise along from moment to moment, bypass or butt up against Meaning, and resist ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

I, Shithead: A Life in Punk

By Joe Keithley

Still ringing hell’s bells after all these years, punk, provocateur, and regular guy Joe Shithead won’t be leaving the stage any time soon. In 1977 he formed the now-legendary Vancouver band D.O.A., at which point ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Journeyman: Travels of a Writer

By Timothy Findley, William Whitehead, ed.

Journeyman showcases many of the qualities that have come to define Timothy Findley’s presence on Canada’s national literary stage. In this collection of articles, speeches, and journal entries that he began compiling years before his ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

57 Hours: A Survivor’s Account of the Moscow Hostage Drama

By Vesselin Nedkov and Paul Wilson

This book has all the tell-tale signs of being a knock-off meant to cash in on a news story still fresh in the public’s mind. There’s the relatively quick turnaround time, two authors (although no ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Roam: A Novel

By Vanz Chapman

A stranger in a strange land, Afro-haired, brown skinned Uly has come back to the small West Indies Island where he was raised. He’s a homeboy with a past. Revisiting his old haunts – the ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Montreal Stories

By Clark Blaise

Author Clark Blaise has been publishing short stories for over 30 years, but many of his books have gone out of print. The Porcupine’s Quill deserves high praise for republishing selected stories in four volumes. ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Playing With Fire: An Inspector Banks Mystery

By Peter Robinson

Dawn on a freezing winter morning sees Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot on a damp Yorkshire canal bank craving coffee and some warmth and wishing they were somewhere else. Banks ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Expedition

By Clayton Bailey

Told largely from the point of view of a woman who must masquerade as a man, Clayton Bailey’s first novel, The Expedition, explores sexual identity through the lens of historical fiction.Wearing trousers and binding her ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Between Mountains

By Maggie Helwig

When trying for that perfect pitch of tragedy, it helps to set a romance against one of the great social tremors, whether it’s the Russian Revolution, the fall of Saigon, or the Vancouver Canucks’ loss ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cat’s Pilgrimage

By Marilyn Bowering

A short foray into plot synopsis will tip off fans of Marilyn Bowering’s fiction that with Cat’s Pilgrimage they are in familiar territory. A drunken teenage party leaves a girl dead, and the gay boy ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Hair Hat

I, Shithead: A Life in Punk

Journeyman: Travels of a Writer

57 Hours: A Survivor’s Account of the Moscow Hostage Drama

Roam: A Novel

Montreal Stories

Playing With Fire: An Inspector Banks Mystery

The Expedition

Between Mountains

Cat’s Pilgrimage

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