The Short Story Issue
(#79, Spring/Summer 2010)

Contents:

FEATURES

• Introduction by Clark Blaise
• Tidings of Comfort and Joy by Mark Anthony Jarman
• Notes in the Margin of a Marginal Form by Alex Good
• It Needs to Be Said…Again:
  An Introduction to the Century List
  by Nigel Beale
• The Century List by John Metcalf
• “The Way the Skin of the Moment Can Break Open”:
  Reading Munro’s “White Dump”
  by Robert Thacker
• The Mind of Alice Munro by Douglas Glover
• World Processing: The Life of the Short Story Online
  by Richard Rosenbaum
• The Wheat of Sadness:
  Editing Out the Chaff from the 2009 Giller Shortlist
  by Ryan Bigge

POETRY

• Knick Knack by Linda Besner

FICTION

• Sweet by Rebecca Rosenblum

WORD OF MOUTH

• “The Twisting Octopus”:
  A Reading of Audrey Thomas’ “Local Customs”
  by Michael Darling

REVIEWS

• Nathan Whitlock on Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
• Jeet Heer on The Last Shot: A Novella and Eleven Stories by Leon Rooke
• Nicole Dixon on Journey Prize Stories 21 selected by Camilla Gibb, Lee Henderson, and Rebecca Rosenblum
• Matthew Fox on Buying Cigarettes for the Dog by Stewart Ross
• Caroline Adderson on Going Ashore by Mavis Gallant
• Steven W. Beattie on The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
• Michael Carbert on What the Furies Bring by Kenneth Sherman
• Sarah Neville on Open Wide a Wilderness:
  Canadian Nature Poems edited by Nancy Holmes
• Brian Palmu on The Invisibility Exhibit by Sachiko Murakami;
  Penny Dreadful by Shannon Stewart; and
  CUSP/detritus: an experiment in alleyways by Catherine Owen

CNQ ABROAD

• Graves in the Afternoon by Murray Wilson

CNQ COLLECTION

• A Page From the Past by Jason Dewinetz