Interview by Cara Nelissen The Growing Room Festival is taking place from March 8-17, 2019. Below is an interview with Festival Director Chelene Knight about her vision for the festival, the work that goes into creating a space for...
The Ambassador of What Adrian Michael Kelly ECW Press, 2018 Review by Jessica Torrens The Ambassador of What takes tough fathers and striving sons to a whole new level. Akin to his debut novel Down Sterling Road, in this...
A Violent Streak Stephanie Warner Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd., 2018 Review by Mormei Zanke Stephanie Warner’s debut poetry collection A Violent Streak begins with a question: “Or is it a seam?” (15). Warner doesn’t waste any time, entreating the reader to...
Photo credit: Zachary Ayotte By jaye simpson I had the utmost pleasure of sitting down with Vivek Shraya to to talk about her book I Am Afraid of Men (2018, Penguin Press) which has garnered widespread attention, some of which...
Angela of the Stones Amanda Hale Thistledown Press Ltd., 2018 Review by Katharine Beeman In her recent column for Juventud Rebelde, renowned Cuban intellectual Graziella Pogolotti wrote that “authentic art constitutes a specific way of knowing the most profound...
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You Know You Want This Kristen Roupenian Simon & Schuster Review by Justina Elias Kristen Roupenian’s short story “Cat Person” went viral in December 2017, two months after #MeToo had become a global phenomenon. Following a twenty-year-old woman through...
Photo credit: Zemekiss Photograpy Review by Issie Patterson Any reader well-acquainted with author John Irving’s love for the uncanny will be delighted with Pacific Theater’s simultaneously hilarious and moving adaptation of his seventh novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany. Adapted...
In a recent review of Catriona Wright’s new book in Streeters, Eric McMillan wrote: “With their mixture of offbeat personalities, horrid situations and entertaining writing, Difficult People contains some of the most engaging new stories I’ve read for quite...