March 30, 2014 Quote – Thoughts are Powerful! “Because thoughts are powerful. Thoughts and ideas change people, change the world.” -Brett Savory – In and Down (Brindle & Glass, 2007) Categories Quotes Comments: 2
March 27, 2014 Sexy Shiftings and Stirrings A review of Greg Bechtel’s “The Smut Story (III)” in Boundary Problems (Freehand Books, 2014) By Derek Newman-Stille We are made up of stories. We are created from sex. In “The Smut Story (III)” Greg Bechtel interweaves the sexual with notions of the construction of self through narrative. After an erotica reading series at a bookstore on Mother’s Day, the... Categories Fiction Book Reviews Comments: 0
March 23, 2014 Quote – Fluid past, Other Truths “I believed in a fluid past where all possibilities were just as likely, just as true.” -Claude Lalumiere – The Door to Lost Pages (ChiZine Publications, 2011) Categories Quotes Comments: 0
March 20, 2014 Escaping North – Zombified Canada A review of Dead North: Canadian Zombie Fiction, edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Exile Editions, 2013) By Derek Newman-Stille In American zombie movies, Canada is a place of escape, a place to run to in the event of a zombie apocalypse to escape from the ravening hoards. I am not certain what sort of magical barrier our country’s border has, or... Categories Fiction Book Reviews Comments: 2
March 17, 2014 Quote – Solitude Versus Loneliness “Solitude can be a good thing sometimes, when you require quiet time to catch up on your thoughts and sort them, like sugar being sifted through a sieve. There’s a difference between solitude and being lonely though. The first one depicts self-sufficiency as you set out along your own path without company. The other denotes a variety of emotions, all... Categories Quotes Comments: 0
March 14, 2014 Humour and Subversion By Derek Newman-Stille How many people take humour seriously? Can humour say things that we wouldn’t say in polite society? Can humour ask us to think about things that we normally wouldn’t? Humour has a subversive potential. Good authors of humour can wield it as a microscope on society, a lens of the absurd through which we can see how... Categories Editorials Comments: 0
March 11, 2014 Quote – Tangled in a Web of Stories “After our birth and before our death, we spin a web of stories so intricate that it’s easy to become tangled within it.” -Scott Fotheringham – The Rest is Silence (Goose Lane Editions, 2012) Categories Quotes Comments: 0
March 6, 2014 Quote- Envying Freedom “The best revenge is making them envy your freedom.” -James Alan Gardner – Expendable (Avon, 1997) Categories Quotes Comments: 0
March 2, 2014 Quote- Leave People Thinking You Have Special Powers “When someone thinks you have special powers, it’s best to let them go on thinking that.” -William Kowalski – Just Gone (Raven Books, 2013) Categories Quotes Comments: 0