“It encourages madness of a certain kind”: David Cronenberg on the horror genre
“The very things that nurture you in the horror genre are also the things that can suppress an understanding of what you’re trying to do.”
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“The very things that nurture you in the horror genre are also the things that can suppress an understanding of what you’re trying to do.”
“I think I see life in very, very noir terms,” says the author, who considered quitting after finishing work on her latest novel.
“I didn’t have much of a relationship with masculinity growing up,” MacIntyre says. “I grew up among women.”
The brief novel’s propulsion and effect result from its author’s key understanding of just how far to push her technique to achieve maximum effect.
Though Bhat’s new book is described as her second novel, the individual pieces comprise all the attributes of linked stories.
The Toronto author’s story provides a metaphorical response to a very real history of trauma and violence.
Awad’s latest novel uses allusions to the Bard to tell the story of a woman whose chronic pain is miraculously alleviated.
The Vancouver journalist’s book chronicles a four-year plunge into the depths of the NXIVM miasma.
“Any story, any work of literature, any storytelling endeavour has to be both lighthouse and storm,” El Akkad says.
A breezy, plot-driven book and an abstruse, philosophically dense ontological mystery provide different pleasures for readers.