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Awarding the Governor-General's Literary Award for fiction to Eleanor Catton, a New Zealander who hasn't lived in Canada since the age of six, is a scandal. 
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Stop pretending Saul Bellow and Eleanor Catton are ours. We have spent far too many years reading and feting authors who practice their craft somewhere else
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The odd thing about beginnings is how often they are forgotten. When I'm teaching and asking students about the first frames of films, they often reference later plot points more than the actual fi...
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This fall on Canada Writes we're bringing you excerpts of new work from emerging and established Canadian Writers. This week is an excerpt of Craig Davidson’s novel Cataract City, one of the 13 titles on the 2013 Giller shortlist. *Craig Davidson...
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To date, Ross Leckie has written several thoughtful, lyric books. In this outing with Frog Hollow Press, he's done the same - but vastly differently. The Critique of Pure Reason makes philosophy into the stuff of language, of poetry. Naturally, poetry becomes philosophy. Leckie writes huge new poems of incredible verbal music. This work takes Leckie's known strengths as displayed in his books with Gaspereau and Signal, refines them further, and adds a layer of beauty and complexity and sound. The Critique of Pure Reason is a career-defining book.
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t is rare to find a book of critical essays that takes its subject matter as earnestly as Kathleen McConnell takes Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Twilight in Pain, Porn and Complicity: Women Heroes from Pygmalion to Twilight. This is not to say that McConnell’s analysis is glowing or in any way redolent of fandom — which wouldn’t be an unreasonable concern given these shows’ shockingly pervasive cult followings — but rather that these essays manage to address their mass market subject matter with an atypical attention to detail, treating Whedon as seriously as Shakespeare, Meyer as seriously as Wollstonecraft. For any book that genuinely aims at understanding why the disturbing themes of vampires and female bondage have reached such tempestuous heights of popularity in the past few decades, McConnell’s work is precisely the sort of sobering analysis readers might use to decrypt the seduction of careworn Gothic motifs across the North American zeitgeist.
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Douglas Glover: "This is from Gerard Beirne‘s new novel Charlie Tallulah, out imminently with Oberon Press in Ottawa. The language is sharp and precise, the dialogue is punctuated à la Joyce using em-dashes instead of quotation marks (see also Robert Day’s serial novel on NC). Two things to note especially: 1) Having lived in the Canadian north by a native reserve for several years, the Irish-born author knows whereof he speaks; and 2) the author’s way of patterning his text with luminous phrases that reach out of their context toward some larger and more mysterious meaning. He saw her eyes drift towards the open door. John Lee stood there watching them. -Sorry. I was just passing. But he did not go anywhere. – What is it you can’t see? Cindy asked. – A way out, John Lee replied. And there is a great scene with a girl and a bear skin (as you all know, this is right up my alley)
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Scotiabank Giller Prize Gala 2013 on CBC. Craig Davidson's Cataract City book trailer. Paul Haggis presents Craig Davidson's book and Craig talks to Jian Gom...
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It’s never too late to be what you wanted to be when you grew up. Do you dream of being a writer but don’t know where to start? Do you long for a career where you can skip the morning commute, work...
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First aired on The Sunday Edition (13/10/13) Craig Davidson's writing has a quality that is unusual for Canadian fiction. So much so that he once said he feels like he
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This town's motto is "Fredericopolis, silvae filia nobilis," Latin for "Fredericton, noble daughter of the forest." That's just awesome. If you've never he
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Danny Jacobs grew up in Riverview, New Brunswick and his poems have been published in a variety of journals across Canada. After living in a number of cities and towns in the Maritimes, Danny is back in Riverview and works as the librarian in the village of Petitcodiac, NB. Songs That Remind Us of Factories (Nightwood Editions, 2013) is his first book.
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SAVAGE LOVE (Goose Lane), the new story collection from expat Canadian Douglas Glover, is a compact gallery, flint-eyed and snaggle-toothed, of wolfish behavior; it’s also a casebook study in narrative design.
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