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CanLitThe ColophonWriters and Writing

“This was, and is, a kind of genius”: colleagues, publishers, and admirers recall the importance of Marie-Claire Blais, one of the finest writers Canada has ever produced

December 8, 2021June 14, 2022

Timid is not a word anyone would reach for to describe Blais’s fiction, and especially her early work, which remains as shocking and defiant today as when it first appeared.

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CanLitThe Horror ShowWriters and Writing

Adam Pottle on how the CanLit establishment’s preference for literary realism downplays the value of horror writing

October 27, 2021June 14, 2022

Horror doesn’t gel with those who’ve propped up CanLit respectability – that is, chiefly cishet, nondisabled white people, Pottle writes.

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Brief EncountersCanLitShort Fiction

31 Days of Stories 2021, Day 27: “The Book About the Bear” by John O’Neill

May 27, 2021June 14, 2022

In Atwoodian terms, O’Neill’s story represents a conflation of doomed animals and survival.

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