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Paul Park’s magical Roumania

Paul Park. A Princess of Roumania (TOR 2005). Paul Park. The Tourmaline (TOR 2006). Paul Park. The White Tyger (TOR 2007). With a group of accolades from everyone from Ursula K LeGuin to Jonathan...

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P.C. Hodgell’s (l)on(g)-going epic fantasy

P.C. Hodgell. Godstalk (Atheneum 1982). P.C. Hodgell. Dark of the Moon (Atheneum 1985). P.C. Hodgell. Seeker’s Mask (Meisha Merlin 2000). P.C. Hodgell. To Ride a Rathorn (Meisha Merlin 2006). P.C....

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Sarah Thornton’s sharp as a knife ethnography of the high end art world

Sarah Thornton. Seven Days in the Art World (Norton 2008). Sarah Thornton introduces her exhilarating, expansive, & often disheartening ethnographic look at the art world of the early 21st century...

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The Luskville Reductions: another fine work from Monty Reid

Monty Reid. The Luskville Reductions (Brick Books 2008). Good poetry doesn’t age, so reading The Luskville Reductions now, admittedly a little late, I find it to be a superb serial poem, each page a...

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Don Thompson demonstrates the definitely curious economics of contemporary art

Don Thompson. The $12 Million Stuffed Shark (Doubleday Canada 2008). This book, as thoroughly entertaining & as spiritually disheartening as Seven Days in the Art World, takes a much broader view...

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Collaborative poetics: Beyond the Bother of Sunlight

Lewis LaCook & Sheila E Murphy. Beyond the Bother of Sunlight (BlazeVOX [books] 2011). Poetic collaborations make for interesting reading (& I speak as another collaborator with Sheila E...

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Michael Ondaatje’s The Cat’s Table

Michael Ondaatje. The Cat’s Table (McClelland & Stewart 2011). Highly enjoyable, The Cat’s Table is a sort of Comedy of Manners cum Boy’s Own Adventure cum mystery, told mostly from the point of...

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Nancy Mattson’s Finns and Amazons: the personal tie to history

Nancy Mattson. Finns and Amazons (UK: Arrowhead Press 2012). Nancy Mattson. Lines from Karelia (with letters by Lisi Hirvonen, translated by Iiris Pursiainen) (UK: Arrowhead Press 2011). Finns and...

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Jenna Butler’s beautifully difficult remembering

Jenna Butler. Wells (University of Alberta Press 2012). Jenna Butler. Spindle (Snowapple Press 2012). Wells, Jenna Butler’s second full length book, takes on a difficult & grand subject, that of...

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Stephen Vincent writes to Jack Spicer

Stephen Vincent. After Language: Letters to Jack Spicer (BlazeVOX [books] 2011). After Language is an act of homage that also seeks to take some of Jack Spicer’s interventions into conventional lyric...

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Tanya Huff’s entertaining enchantments

Tanya Huff. The Enchantment Emporium (DAW Books 2009); The Wild Ways (DAW Books 2011). In The Enchantment Emporium & the books that will follow it, Tanya Huff has created an extended family of very...

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Oana Avasilichioaei’s Beastly identifications

Oana Avasilichioaei. We, Beasts (Wolsak & Wynn 2012). As her list of ‘comings & goings’ (ie, allées et venues) at the end suggests, Avasilichioaei’s square, black, new book is a carefully...

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K.V. Johansen’s complex high fantasy: Blackdog.

K.V. Johansen. Blackdog (Pyr 2011). There’s a good reason the jury put Blackdog on the Sunburst shortlist: it’s a fine, complex high fantasy set in a fully realized secondary world with a deep implied...

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William Gibson’s brilliant ending to his latest trilogy: Zero History

William Gibson. Zero History (G.P. Putnam’s Sons 2010). Of course I’ve taken too long to get around to reading Zero History, but I do have my excuses, such as the huge Sunburst reading list I spent...

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Dave Duncan’s new SF adventure

Dave Duncan. Wildcatter (EDGE 2012). Dave Duncan writes solid entertainments, usually fantasy, but recently he’s done some fine SF, & Wildcatter certainly fits that bill. It’s an adventure story,...

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Jonathan Ball is cutting edge

Jonathan Ball. The Politics of Knives (Coach House Books 2012) Following his neatly demented theatrics in Clockfire, Jonathan Ball turns his détournement-ing, his tormenting eye on film in all its...

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A bit of an EDGE in anthologies…

J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec, eds. Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes (EDGE 2011). Nancy Kilpatrick, ed. Danse Macabre: Close Encounters with the Reaper (EDGE 2012). Nancy...

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Nicole Markotić. Bent at the Spine (BookThug 2012). This five part volume of marvelously warped textuality announces its devious pleasures on its stunning front cover, by Kate Hargreaves, based on a...

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Sheila E Murphy’s very American Ghazals

Sheila E Murphy. American Ghazals (Otoliths 2012). Since I collaborate with Sheila E Murphy on a long poem, Continuations, I may be seen as biased, And I am: have been ever since I came across her...

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Daniel Zomparelli translates Vancouver’s Davie Street

Daniel Zomparelli. Davie Street Translations (Talonbooks 2012). Talonbooks’ write-up of this collection of missives from a specific cultural niche of the city, explains that they are carried off in a...

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