The New Brunswick Literary Times

Moncton is again trying to name a piece of the city after Gerald LeBlanc, after giving up on plans to rename a downtown court after the Acadian author.

Jeramy Dodds - for A.L.   To cash in the cha-ching of your winks I turned to the creek for currency. It’s hard to swim with a heart of gold. The creek is breaking up with us and the paper acre...

by James M. Fisher

I always enjoy reading Ray’s novels and short stories and this book is no exception. It is one of his earlier works and his characters Walt Macbride and his friend Sully will be familiar to his longtime readers.

The Costa Blanca novella is entertaining, covering the time when Walt and Eva were together and he was still writing. Then, a few years later everything has changed on a return trip to Spain (“Return to Costa Blanca”). Walt has had a ‘vision’ on the way to the Bannon

He's novelist, poet, filmmaker, teacher and short story writer. Robert Gray spends part of his life in Fredericton, part of his time in Thunder Bay. And he's launching his new book "Entropic" tonight

I couldn't help but to share this snippet from Mark Jarman's editorial remarks for the summer fiction issue of The Fiddlehead (n264): I will be brief:...

The Malahat Review, established in 1967, is among Canada’s leading literary journals. Published quarterly, it features contemporary Canadian and international and contemporary works of poetry and fiction as well as reviews of recently published Canadian poetry, fiction and literary non-fiction.

Surprising and revelatory non-fiction from a talented young writer whose last book, Cataract City, was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Trillium Book Prize, and was a Globe Best Book and national bestseller.With his last novel, Cataract City, Craig Davidson established himself as one of our most talented novelists. But in his early thirties, before writing that novel and before his previous work, Rust and Bone, was made into an Oscar-nominated film, Davidson experienced a period of poverty, apparent failure and despair. In this new work of intimate, riveting and timely non-fiction, based loosely on a National Magazine Award-winning article he published in The Walrus, Davidson tells the story of one year in his life—a year during which he came to a new, mature understanding of his own life and his connection to others. Or, as Davidson would say, he became an adult.One morning in 2008, desperate and impoverished and living in a one-room basement apartment while trying unsuccessfully to write, Davidson plucked a flyer out of his mailbox that read, “Bus Drivers Wanted.” That was the first step towards an unlikely new career: driving a school bus full of special-needs kids for a year. Armed only with a sense of humour akin to that of his charges, a creative approach to the challenge of driving a large, awkward vehicle while corralling a rowdy gang of kids, and surprising but unsentimental reserves of empathy, Davidson takes us along for the ride. He shows us how his evolving relationship with the kids on that bus, each of them struggling physically as well as emotionally and socially, slowly but surely changed his life along with the lives of the “precious cargo” in his care. This is the extraordinary story of that year and those relationships. It is also a moving, important and universal story about how we see and treat people with special needs in our society.Story Locale: British Columbia

Andy Flanagan of Belledune talks about the significance of Victory in Japan day to him.

A boy who has survived years of neglect and abuse get his chance to fight back by becoming a boxer.

Saturday marks the 70th anniversary of the end of the war in the Pacific and the end of the Second World War.

“Powerful. . . . Full of dark nostalgia.” —NATHAN ENGLANDER“A literary high-wire act, not for the faint of heart.” —ALISSA YORKAn unflinching...