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Love and All Its Vulnerabilities: A Review of Jasmina Odor’s You Can’t Stay Here

 

You Can’t Stay Here
Jasmina Odor
Thistledown Press

Review by Sarah Richards

Jasmina Odor’s short story collection You Can’t Stay Here is about relationships. Shaky ones. They flicker between lovers and friends, but also between old homes and new ones — most of Odor’s protagonists emigrated to Canada from Croatia during the Bosnian war. Even temporal relationships are disrupted. The war, whether lodged in one’s lived or living memory, is a wedge, “a chasm between past and future.” (119)
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An interview with Cole Nowicki, the creator and host of fine.

Interview by Jasmine Sealy

Photo by Olivier Barjolle

Last month I attended a free, hilarious, thoughtful, well-organized literary event at The Lido in Vancouver. I got there an hour early and the place was already almost packed, by showtime, people were being turned away at the door. The event was fine., an evening of “storytelling and otherwise”–a magical combination of stand-up, poetry, storytelling and music. The result is a show as unique and quirky as its creator and host, local writer Cole Nowicki. Here we chat to Cole about how fine. came to be and about the future of the show. Continue reading An interview with Cole Nowicki, the creator and host of fine.

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