Green is Good
This appeared in the July/August 2010 issue.
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Fiction by Lisa Moore, Linden MacIntyre, Rawi Hage, Heather O’Neill, Zsuzsi Gartner, Stephen Marche, Michael Winter, Miguel Syjuco, and Madeleine Thien; Chris Jones profiles the director of the National Gallery of Canada; André Alexis laments the decline of literary criticism…
My Second, Less Popular, and Even Less Critically Successful Canadian Novel
The woman at the little insurance company. Georgetown, Ontario. The description of exquisite unsaids. The turn will not take place in an Applebee’s parking lot. The male foil will perish …
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Where Ghana Went Right
How one African country emerged intact from its post-colonial struggles
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Su-Na, Bird
The last of our kind came into the city tonight. Flat-footed, paws curled into fists, snow on their fur, I saw them scrambling down the toboggan hills on their bottoms …
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Billy Bennett
The Cottage Tavern, he was barred from there. He still got in but if they called the cops he drank at his own residence.
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A Few Acres of Snow
The man is spending his retirement writing a book tentatively entitled One Hundred and Twenty-Seven Paintings to See Before You Die
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Say the Names (after Al Purdy)
American whiskey bar (no logo), Sudbury, Saturday night, August 32nd On Earth (Shampoo Planet), The Gutenberg Galaxy American woman, swamp angel, friend of my youth, “Raise a little hell, shake …
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My Life as a Canadian Writer
My first short story, “The Provincial Fair,” was rejected twenty-five times before it found its home in The Muskoka Review. From then on it’s all been pretty easy. I learned …
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