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CanLitNovelsThe Colophon

The things we carry: Michelle Berry examines the confluence of personal and geopolitical trauma in Everything Turns Away

November 29, 2021June 14, 2022

The risk in writing a domestic thriller with 9/11 as backdrop is that the geopolitical material comes off as a gimmick rather than an integral story element.

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CanLitNovelsThe Horror Show

Nic Brewer’s debut novel uses body horror as a means of interrogating the artistic process

November 12, 2021June 14, 2022

The book uses Grand Guignol techniques to literalize the process of tearing oneself open in the act of artistic creation.

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Horror Show

James Han Mattson’s Reprieve is set in a full-contact haunted house

October 21, 2021June 14, 2022

What could possibly go wrong?

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Horror Show

Stephen Graham Jones returns to his slasher-film inspiration with the nostalgia saturated novel My Heart Is a Chainsaw

October 18, 2021June 14, 2022

The author returns to the slasher film saturated ground he has trod before to provide a loving homage that leans a bit too heavily on insider knowledge of the genre.

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CanLitNovelsThe Horror Show

David Demchuk on queerness, supernatural horror, and the intersection of fictional and real-life monsters

October 9, 2021June 14, 2022

“A lot of it reminds me of just how much I have come through. And how much the people I know have come through. And what it was like to lose people.”

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CanLitNovelsThe ColophonWriters and Writing

“I didn’t realize how difficult it was going to be”: Lisa de Nikolits on a turn to science fiction in her latest novel, The Rage Room

October 1, 2021June 14, 2022

“I think I see life in very, very noir terms,” says the author, who considered quitting after finishing work on her latest novel.

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CanLitNovelsThe Colophon

“You just clench your teeth and keep on going”: Linden MacIntyre on masculinity, moral ambiguity, and why he hates golf

September 29, 2021June 14, 2022

“I didn’t have much of a relationship with masculinity growing up,” MacIntyre says. “I grew up among women.”

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CanLitNovelsThe Colophon

Aimee Wall’s debut novel recalls a 1960s underground movement in a story told through precise, exuberant language

September 16, 2021June 14, 2022

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.

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Brief EncountersCanLitNovelsShort Fiction

Shashi Bhat blurs the line between novels and short fiction in her new book, The Most Precious Substance on Earth

September 15, 2021June 14, 2022

Though Bhat’s new book is described as her second novel, the individual pieces comprise all the attributes of linked stories.

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CanLitNovelsThe Horror Show

A book of blood: David Demchuk’s queer horror novel addresses real-life terrors

September 9, 2021June 14, 2022

The Toronto author’s story provides a metaphorical response to a very real history of trauma and violence.

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