Newfoundland lit journal Riddle Fence announces first short fiction collection under its Debuts publishing imprint
"My next task is to figure out how to do audiobooks."
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"My next task is to figure out how to do audiobooks."
Other considerations aside, this represents one of the strongest Giller shortlists in years.
The more obviously generic elements of the story are less unsettling than the very real horrors of racism and family strife.
Only one writer on this year's list, Emma Donoghue, has won the prize previously.
Indigo can't fail, but it also appears less and less interested in operating primarily as a bookseller.
Twelve titles in total made the 2023 longlist, which was culled from a record-setting 145 submissions.
City in Flames and Camp Zero address societal discord via imaginative scenarios that only slightly exaggerated from the evening news.
The Marigold is a quintessential urban horror tale; The Handyman Method relocates the terror to the suburbs.
The stories display a surface placidity that belies their deeper structure.
LeBlanc's short fiction is refreshingly resistant to closure.