Issue 29: Spring 2015 Is Finally, Gloriously Here!

Dear Friends, Writers, Readers, Publishers, Pilgrims, Issue 29: Spring 2015 is now live. Please enjoy outside, with laptop, phone or tablet, with something fragrant. Be sure to mix memory and desire in new fine-tuned fiction by Aurora Stewart de Peña, Jon Chan Simpson, and Ben Stephenson. Then mix dull roots with spring rain with poets in full bloom and those still sprouting: Stephen Collis, Kate Sutherland, Roxanna Bennett, Joelle Barron, Meghan Harrison, Aaron Boothby, Vanessa Stauffer, Caitlin Scarano, Rasiqra Revulva, Sara Jane Strickland, Carolyn Nakagawa, Hannah Hackney, and Glen Armstrong. Then find excellent works of long-form non-fiction from some of the most compelling younger voices in the country. In her engaging essay, “In Defense of the Negative Book Review,” Town Crier and magazine regular Julienne Isaacs poses the hard question, “Can hatchet jobs build strong literary culture?” while Dave Hurlow takes a particularly rigid look at the work of Haruki Murakami in his own, the “Art of the Literary Erection.” Author A.R. Jardine interviews CanLit luminary Dionne Brand in a most intimate and surprising manner in “Love Enough”; Puritan staffers Jason Freure and André Forget chew the fat of worlds old and new with multi-award winning author Rawi Hage in “Clowning and Cosmopolitanism”; and writer Neil Wadhwa discusses all things book-store with Munro's Books managing partner Jessica Walker in “Staying Independent.” Issue 29 is rounded out with Nicholas Herring’s thorough and thoughtful analysis of Michael Crummey’s Sweetland. It's all here in Issue 29: Spring 2015. Enjoy!