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 description / of exquisite unsaids. The turn will not / take place in an Applebee’s parking lot
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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
Against my face, the darkness was lustrous and cool. I went downstairs and sniffed
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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
If you heard that segment of Canada Reads / where a guy recommends the novel version / of Tom Cruise’s Top Gun, that was me
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