Fall Archive

Fifteen More Minutes

by Sarah Lolley Honourably mentioned in the QWF/CBC short story competition [full text]

No Deeper Blue

by Marci Denesiuk Honourably mentioned in the QWF/CBC short story competition [full text]

Tourette Syndrome

by Claire Crighton Meet five poet-zealots in the tradition of Mingus Tourette [full text]

Crisis Management

by Todd Babiak Fiction [full text]

The End of the Road

by Maisonneuve Staff Poems of Jacques Brault, translated by Patrick McGuinness [full text]

I’m Bursting to Tell

by Mary Dalton Riddles for Conception Bay [full text]

Mouth to Hand

by Amanda Jernigan Can Newfoundland English survive on print alone? [full text]

The Comic Menace

by John Bell How fear and protectionism killed Canada’s postwar comic book industry [full text]

Minority Rapport

by Maisonneuve Staff A dialogue on “halfness” featuring Anne Marie Nakagawa and Bryan Lee O’Malley [full text]

Peterson

by Marc Tulin QWF/CBC Short Story Writing Competition [full text]

Sakatchewan, Land of Tall Stuff

by Ian Doig Getting high in Canada’s flattest province [full text]

Oh, P’tit Canada

by Claire Crighton An interview with Bill Blesener, mayor of Little Canada, Minnesota [full text]

Wake Up and Smell the Harbour

by Zachariah Wells Life down East after the pogey dries up [full text]

World Cup of Comedy

by Derek Flores Masters of improv from around the globe [full text]

The Effervescent Fuckaroo

by Peter Unwin Mingus Tourette’s trans-Canada poetry road trip [full text]

In Baudrillard’s Army

by Joe Rayment A Canadian gets drafted into a Hollywood movie [full text]

An Open Letter to Montreal

by Will Ferguson On Behalf of Calgary [full text]

Welcome to Canadaville

by Jonathan Montpetit A corporate vision of hope in rural Louisiana [full text]

The Walking Man

by Philip Preville The city as a perpetual work in progress [full text]

True Faith

by Mark Clintberg Four Canadian artists get spiritual
Tenth Anniversary: Spring

ISSUE 43 Tenth Anniversary: Spring 2012

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also in this issue:

  • Face the Music

    by Tim Falconer How can someone who passionately loves music also be a terrible singer? Tim Falconer takes up voice lessons—and discovers the surprising science of tone deafness.
  • The Big Job

    by Deni Y. Béchard As a teenager, Deni Y. Béchard went to Vancouver to live with his father, an ex-con with a penchant for telling tall tales. He met a man desperate to forget the past.
  • The Homesickness of Astronauts

    by Johanna Skibsrud "She felt a great sadness. She would remember next to nothing of this, even soon."
  • [see full issue contents]