Stay Schemin’
I shall tell you the tale of your grandfather, A-Gung, Grand Pimp of the East, Celestial Don and Supreme Bawse of Old Cathay, by this and all true accounts.
ISSUE 29: Spring 2015
Fiction
Grief Counselling Role-Play Exercise for Four Participants
After J. William Worden
Reading Aloud from a Textbook with Weak Illustrations
So my ideal look is romantic. Victorian, but in this very updated way.
Poetry
Valve
One possible inquiry : what materials objects phrases residues are produced in this long act
Essays
In Defense of the Negative Book Review: Can Hatchet Jobs Build Strong Literary Culture?
As American critic Lee Siegel put it, negative reviewers are supposedly all about “the dark art of the takedown.”
Haruki Murakami’s Art of the Literary Erection
The first girl I ever seriously dated suggested Murakami to me.
Interviews
Love Enough: An Interview with Dionne Brand
This is an unconventional interview because Dionne Brand is my writing mentor and friend, yet I’m certain she wouldn’t accept responsibility for the former.
Clowning and Cosmopolitanism: An Interview with Rawi Hage
A handful of stories in Carnival are a remake of other stories from other books. Ultimately, Carnival is a book about literature.
Staying Independent: An Interview with Jessica Walker
Well, we’re in an old bank building in the middle of Old Town in Victoria—it certainly is impressive. It’s a grand old heritage building that was designed for the Royal Bank of Canada over 100 years ago, around 1909.
Reviews
The Last of the Wild Islanders: A Review of Michael Crummey’s Sweetland
Sweetland, Michael Crummey’s first novel since Galore (2009), marks a return to the hefty kingdom of the narrative, and in many ways, the story he fashions is the logical—and therefore, perhaps, predictable—follow up.
