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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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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My Canadian Novel
The Newfoundland orphange playground and asleep in the stiff nunnery’s bed, the train was stalled at Portage and Main— “Just around then my marriage fell apart.” The pea garden was …
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Sin of Omission
The priest was Haitian and unpopular, sent from Halifax to lift the church’s sinking numbers. Someone made a joke about colonialism. Someone made a joke about how he choked on …
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Dear Updike
I dreaded those future aeons when I would not be present—an endless succession of days I would miss, with their own news and songs and styles of machine. —John Updike, …
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I Am Happy to Live in an Age of Plenty
There are more non-prescription painkillers now than when most of us had jobs that were strenuous or fatal. Our muscles tightened and frayed like ropes that hoist pianos; our knuckles …
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For the Fighter Pilot Made Redundant by Unmanned Drones
Fatigued, he bides there, glum, in the desert Tim Hortons simulacrum, that mirage of home dragged out the tail end of a C130 Hercules and opened for business. In his …
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The Museum of Sound
On the ground floor, near the gift shop, is the mechanical wing, with sections for vehicles, factories, heavy equipment, and office machinery. A rare recording of FDR’s typist is the …
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