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André Forget

André Forget (@AYForget) is a contributing editor to Canadian Notes & Queries and former editor-in-chief of The Puritan. Based in Toronto, he currently lives in Yoshkar-Ola, Russia.
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Arts & Culture / Books

How to Break Every Rule of Contemporary Writing and Succeed

July 2, 2020July 3, 2020 - by André Forget

Jean Marc Ah-Sen’s new book cracks open the tired tradition of the postmodern novel

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Arts & Culture

The Return of Political Fiction

October 4, 2019February 23, 2022 - by André Forget

How a new generation of Canadian writers is turning politics into art

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Books / November 2018

Randy Boyagoda’s New Novel Is Both Deeply Catholic and Deeply Funny

November 13, 2018June 2, 2020 - by André Forget

In his third book, the author skewers the multicultural anxieties of today’s university culture

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Arts & Culture / Books

The Search for the Great Canadian Novel

October 4, 2018November 13, 2019 - by André Forget

Our national life is exciting, dramatic, and unpredictable. Why don’t more Canadian novelists write about it?

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Can Fiction Truly Capture the Mind of a Tyrant?

May 17, 2018November 12, 2019 - by André Forget

Dimitri Nasrallah’s new novel tells a timely story about the fall of a strongman dynasty

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Does Writing About Boredom Have to Be Boring?

December 19, 2017May 17, 2021 - by André Forget

In his new novel, Montreal author Guillaume Morissette takes the life out of millennial fiction

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Books / December 2017

Will a Posthumous Story Collection Help Canada Forgive Norman Levine?

November 22, 2017April 2, 2020 - by André Forget

After his unsparing portrait of the country in his 1950s travelogue, he was shunned by the literary elite

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Books / January/February 2017

Heather O’Neill at the Height of Her Literary Powers

December 13, 2016April 2, 2020 - by André Forget

Does The Lonely Hearts Hotel mark the beginning of her second act?

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The Wikipedia Novel

September 7, 2016September 7, 2016 - by André Forget

Has our hyperlinkable era given birth to a new kind of writing?

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