Number 81 (Winter/Spring 2011)

Contents:

THE DUSTY BOOKCASE
A casual exploration of Canada’s suppressed, ignored, and forgotten literature

• Frank L. Packard’s The Miracle Man
  by Brian Busby

POETRY

• Three Poems by Jacob McArthur Mooney

FEATURES

• Introduction by Matthew Hays
• Genrealities: Five Honest-to-Goodness
  True Stories of Everyday Humiliations 
  by Michael Libling
• Look Back…Look Way Back by Grant Buday
• Why People Read Shitty Books
  by Brett Alexander Savory
• Other Worlds, Other Words by Margaret Atwood
• The Gutter Years by Rob Benvie

THE NORTH WING
Selections from the Lost Library of CanLit graphic novels

• Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, as adapted by James Turner

FICTION

• Meadowdene Estates by Halli Villegas

THE SHORT STORY

• Adderson’s “Shiners’ by Jeet Heer

WORD OF MOUTH

• Love Calling by Alex Good

ART

• Lascaux Bull: On Savage Liberations and Their Tamings
  by Mike Barnes

INTERVIEWS/CONVERSATIONS

• An Interview with William Gibson by August C. Bourre
• The CNQ Interviews: 4 by Ray Smith
• An Appreciation of Ray Smith’s Lord Nelson’s Tavern
  by Mark Sampson
• The Perilous Trade Conversations: Anna Porter
  by Roy MacSkimming

REVIEWS

• Jason Guriel on Approaches to Poetry:
  The Pre-Poem Moment edited by Shane Neilson
• Steve Noyes on Jason Camlot’s  The Animal Library,
  Attention to All Typewriters, and The Debaucher
• Patricia Robertson on Fauna by Alissa York
• Devon Code on The Matter with Morris by David Bergen
• Emily Donaldson on The Death of Donna Whalen by Michael Winter

CNQ ABROAD

• Paros by David Solway

CNQ COLLECTION

• The Spirit Adrift by David Hickey