“They have a passion to do it. They’re highly intelligent, deeply in love with literature. They’re often writers ...
By Ian McGillis
Interviews
It was probably inevitable. Write a debut novel called Skinny, in which you do an almost frighteningly good ...
By Ian McGillis
The Memory Artists is a tragicomedy with a flip postmodern heart. Set in contemporary Montreal, largely in ...
By Andrew Steinmetz
It's a bright, mild afternoon in early March when I ring Mary Soderstrom's doorbell, the kind of day that gives ...
By Kimberly Bourgeois
Touted as funny, even hilarious, I can see you being invisible has a frightening texture. Set for the most ...
By Andrew Steinmetz
Joel Yanofsky grew up in the Laval suburb of Chomedey, where his parents had moved from the Jewish neighbourhood ...
By Juan Rodriguez
If you've spent any time in NDG, particularly the less gentrified part
south of Monkland Village commonly ...
By Joel Yanofsky
"The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his own room." Blaise Pascal ...
By Ian McGillis
Volta begins with the warning of "widespread damage." It's never made clear what the damage is, but the ...
By Carmine Starnino
What was it like spending part of your youth in the Yukon?
The things I remember are melting a bit. When ...
By Ian McGillis
For a while in the '80s everyone was talking about Generation X. Surely you recall: they were brooding, ...
By Noel Rieder
A couple of Christmases back an enlightened gift-giver presented me with a copy of Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan: ...
By Ian McGillis