AltWeeklies Wire
'Convictions' is a Three-Day Successnew
When I first heard about the winner of the 3-Day Novel Writing Contest, in which contestants write a novel over Labor Day weekend, I assumed the output would be rushed, disorganized and unsatisfying, but this newest 3-Day winner is an emotionally powerful book and an intense read despite its mere 111 pages.
NOW Magazine |
David Silverberg |
10-05-2007 |
Fiction
Welcome to Chick Lit Arabic-stylenew
Originally published in Lebanon in 2005, it was banned in Saudi Arabia and became a samizdat sensation, circulating in photocopied form throughout the desert kingdom.
NOW Magazine |
Maria Amuchastegui |
09-28-2007 |
Fiction
Ellis Can't Make the Leap from Comic to Novelnew
Pick up any of his Transmetropolitan graphic novels instead -- you'll get more entertainment for less money.
NOW Magazine |
Andrew Dowler |
09-14-2007 |
Fiction
'Delible' is a Haunting Storynew
Vancouver writer Anne Stone's third novel is inventive and lushly rendered.
NOW Magazine |
Zoe Whittall |
09-07-2007 |
Fiction
Emma Donoghue's Long-Distance Love Story Breaks Downnew
The prose here is much better than almost anything else available in contemporary lesbo lit, but lacks the ideas and outrage of her historical fiction.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
08-31-2007 |
Fiction
A Less-Than-Flattering Tribute to Jack Kerouacnew
Robertson highlights that gap between fantasy and reality -- and pursues his theme of deluded hero worship -- by showing us a Kerouac who is nasty, racist, anti-Semitic and hopelessly in love with America.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
08-31-2007 |
Fiction
'A Thousand Splendid Suns': A Problematic Epicnew
By the time you've brought your emotions under control, you'll realize that this book amounts to an elaborate apology for American military intervention in Afghanistan and, by extension, Canada's as well.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
08-24-2007 |
Fiction
'A Private House': Cuban Reverienew
This fabulous read -- part travelogue, part thriller -- leads us through the white-hot, crumbling streets of Old Havana and the cool, spiked darkness of the labyrinthine back streets where Cubans live and dream.
NOW Magazine |
Lesley McAllister |
07-27-2007 |
Fiction
'Boomsday' Bustnew
Buckley can be really funny, and there are a few laugh-out-loud moments here, but he has a habit of stating the obvious.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
06-29-2007 |
Fiction
'Brother Dumb': Tender, Reflective, Subtlenew
Gilbert's new book defies expectations.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
06-25-2007 |
Fiction
'Skin' Tightnew
Set aside an afternoon and read this novel in one sitting -- you won't be able to stop once you've started.
NOW Magazine |
Zoe Whittall |
06-04-2007 |
Fiction
'New Moon' Shinesnew
Fusing the politics of foreign aid and debt with elements of magic realism, Hopkinson locates the narrator in a nation undergoing its own reconciliation with the past.
NOW Magazine |
Emma McKenna |
05-25-2007 |
Fiction
All About Evienew
Buy this book, read it and then keep it for your daughters.
NOW Magazine |
Arianne Rubenstein |
04-30-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Bottle Rocket Hearts, Zoe Whittall
Stealing Beautynew
Gowdy takes empathy to the max in her deeply unsettling new novel by taking us inside the head of a developing pedophile.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
03-05-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Barbara Gowdy, Helpless
'Big' Funnew
This story just rocks -- it's part potboiler, part love story and all heart.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
02-23-2007 |
Fiction
