In the autumn of 2014, the press release celebrating Goose Lane's 60th birthday landed in my mailbox. It arrived when I was in a nostalgic mood, and I wandered around the house, randomly pulling their publications from the shelves. Some I could distinctly remember purchasing and others I have picked up on a
Jon Chan Simpson invites readers into a world of "abductions, gunshots, commando dads, street-poet moms", a world populated by gangs and kidnapping conspiracies. "‘This thing - chinksta.’ She stumbled over the word, at first but pulled herself through it. ‘You’re worried this is all you got,’ she said. 'This is
Please welcome back ReaderWoman, who has bookchatted here before, as part of the House of Anansi 45 reading celebration of indie presses and bookshops. (You can search for her posts using the tag GuestPost.) She has been reading (among other good things, which you can discover here) Blanche Howard's posthumously
The ReLit Awards, founded by Kenneth J. Harvey, are considered Canada's "pre-eminent literary prize recognizing independent presses" (taken from the prize's website, where you will also find longlists and shortlists: lots of good reading). Serving today, a plateful of the 2013 Short Fiction winner (Ian Rogers' Every House Is Haunted)
Is it too much? Or, just enough. What am I to make of this final story in my Alice Munro reading project. (I read her last collection, Dear Life, in 2012.) While rereading Too Much Happiness, I was constantly aware of the references to being happy, to happiness, in the
