ISSUE 26: SUMMER 2014
Fiction
Murderers, Whoremongers, Liars, and Worse
Two rooms in Pyongyang. 1930s. The room in back with sleeping pallets, cast-iron wood stove, cooking utensils they made themselves, and a chamber pot next to the food box.
Poetry
Three Poems, Translated from the Russian by Andrew Baruch Wachtel
Don’t look back, just go. The past is done.
Essays
Keep Building: Members Reflect on Toronto’s Literary Community
Let’s say you’ve been working really hard on your writing. You’ve been in a creative writing program since your second year of university, and you’ve wanted to do this since you were eight years old, and when you go home to your parents’ house, your mom pulls out a poem you wrote in Grade Three about a butterfly flying along the shore.
Echo Soundings: Notes for an Introduction to Essays on Poetry & Poetics
I have no idea what poems are. I feel an odd double-take when I see one on the page.
Interviews
I Aim to Work at the Level of Idea: An Interview with Pearl Pirie
What is risk? It may seem like stream of consciousness, but Vertigoheel is several years in.
Reviews
Commit to the Bit: A Review of Jon Paul Fiorentino’s I’m Not Scared of You or Anything (Illustrated by Maryanna Hardy)
Jon Paul Fiorentino’s prefacing of his newest book, I’m Not Scared of You or Anything, with an Andy Kaufman epigraph is suspect.
Life, Dangling: A Review of Miriam Toews’s All My Puny Sorrows
Miriam Toews gives herself unreservedly to the reader.
