Weston to the World
By Brian Busby
Garnett Weston once described writing as the easiest racket going.
Weston to the World
Fringe Elements
by Trevor Ferguson (aka John Farrow)
A crime writer encounters his subjects.
Zoe Whittall’s The Spectacular
by Dancy Mason
When I finally decided not to have children, I called my mother. I asked if…
“All Our Auld Acquaintances Are Gone”
by Caroline Adderson
Only about half the apartments were lit and fewer had Christmas lights, just like the last building.
Librairie Saga Bookstore
by Elisabeth Gill
If you’re idealistic about what a book is—a piece of culture that can change your mind, your heart, and the trajectory of your life—you may also have a semi-devotional idea of what a bookstore is.
Judith McCormack’s The Singing Forest
by Naben Ruthnum
Judith McCormack’s The Singing Forest is a reflective legal novel, one that spends more time…
The Meaning of Poor
by River Kozhar
Poverty isn’t just an economic category, its also an insidious means of exclusion.
Brett Josef Grubisic’s My Two-Faced Luck
by Steacy Easton
Brett Josef Grubisic has written gay male pulp for more than a decade, and edited…
A Requiem for Skid Row
by Amy Lavender Harris
Toronto’s roughest neighbourhoods live on, but mainly in its fiction.
Alexander MacLeod’s Animal Person
by Kate Kennedy
I’m generally wary of epigraphs. When they aren’t signalling “You’re in some seriously erudite hands…