Tag: memory

November 19, 2012

Changeabilia

A Review of Douglas Smith’s Impossibilia (PS Publishing, 2008) By Derek Newman-Stille Impossibilia features Douglas Smith’s fascination with moral questions and morally ambiguous spaces where characters are forced to question conflicting values and ideologies. Through his characters, he asks readers What would change your morals? What are you willing to sacrifice? What would you do for the person you love?...

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November 15, 2012

Interview with Helen Marshall

An Interview with Helen Marshall By Derek Newman-Stille After reading Helen Marshall’s new book Hair Side, Flesh Side and seeing her interest in the role of memory and the body, I wanted to inquire further about her writing process and get some insights on the interplay between texts, memory, and the body since this is something that has been of...

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November 12, 2012

Upcoming Interview with Helen Marshall on Thursday November 15

Helen Marshall’s book Hair Side, Flesh Side has recently been published. I was so excited about reading it that I wanted to interview her and get some further insights. You can check out my review of Hair Side, Flesh Side posted on October 27, 2012. Check out this interview on November 15 to get some more insights on the interplay...

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November 1, 2012

Quote – Vampires Smell of Old Books

“Smells pretty good for a vampire. He smelled of old books and rooms left forgotten.” -Kerry Anne Fudge – “Harvest” in UnEarthed (Third Person Press, 2012).

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October 30, 2012

A Dance of Blood and Light

A Review of Liz Strange’s The Embrace of Life and Death (MLR Press, 2011). By Derek Newman-Stille A lot of people who see a cover that features two half naked men would assume that a book does not have a lot of substance to it. However, after hearing Liz Strange speak at Can Con in Ottawa, I knew she had...

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October 27, 2012

Textual Bodies

A Review of Helen Marshall’s Hair Side, Flesh Side (ChiZine, Forthcoming November 2012). By Derek Newman-Stille Helen Marshall’s Hair Side, Flesh Side is a textual body in itself. Each of the short stories contained in the volume is named after a body part, and her work focusses on the body as a textual entity, as something that is written upon,...

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October 15, 2012

Quote – Add Gasoline to High School Years

“To my years in high school/ I’d add gasoline/ stand back at the burst of flame/ give a silent cheer.” -Michelle Barker – Fire (in Tesseracts 14: Strange Canadian Stories)

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October 14, 2012

UnBuried, UnSettled, and UnEarthed

A review of UnEarthed: The Speculative Elements Series Volume 3 Edited by Sherry Ramsey, Julie Serroul, and Nancy Waldman (Third Person Press, Cape Breton, 2012). By Derek Newman-Stille Once again Third Person Press has illustrated the incredible speculative work of Cape Breton authors with the third instalment of their Speculative Elements Series: UnEarthed. This volume, focussed on the element of...

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October 6, 2012

Interview with Douglas Smith

An Interview with Douglas Smith By Derek Newman-Stille This week I had a great opportunity to chat with Toronto author Douglas Smith to discuss ideas about genre-crossing in SF, the ability of SF to challenge the status quo and propose new questions and ideas about how we can view our world, and the power of SF as a medium without...

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October 1, 2012

The Green in the Human

A Review of Dominik Parisien’s In His Eighty-Second Year in Stone Telling issue 7, March 2012 (http://stonetelling.com/issue7-mar2012/parisien-year.html) By Derek Newman-Stille In his poem “In His Eighty-Second Year”, Parisien plays with the senses, constructing each stanza around a sensory experience. He intertwines the human experience with the vegetative, creating the human as a form of scarecrow or green man living in...

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