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Poolside Fiction Archive

Travels in the Land of the Dead

by Tadzio Richards As scientists raise a woolly mammoth from its icy grave in Siberia, reindeer herders warn of angered spirits beneath the tundra. [full text]

Run for Your Lives!

by Nathan Whitlock Science-fictionist Robert Sawyer, the brainchild behind ABC’s hit TV show Flashforward, can’t wait for the future. [full text]

A gun, of course

by Nick Haramis A “poolside” interview with Rawi Hage [full text]

Muscle Memory

by Erin Batykefer “Clean speed, if you can attain it, is about simplicity. It can make you beautiful.” [full text]

Poolside Dialogue

by Derek Webster An introduction to our Poolside Fiction issue [full text]

Ladybug Lobotomies and Other Trade Secrets

by Nick Haramis A “poolside” interview with Carrie Haber [full text]

In it for the cottage

by Mark Mann A “poolside” interview with Joanne Proulx [full text]

Another Reason Not to Do Speed

by Mark Mann A “poolside” interview with Tom McCarthy [full text]

Death by Lamb Chop

by Mark Mann A “poolside” interview with Ibi Kaslik [full text]

Sun Life

by Peter Behrens “In my family we run around burying feelings the way squirrels bury their nuts then forget where. I’d once thought the world was going to be nice.” [full text]

Chainsaws, trucks and testosterone

by Nick Haramis A “poolside” interview with Peter Behrens [full text]

Talking with Alistair MacLeod

by Meredith Erickson One of Canada’s greatest talents speaks with Managing Editor Meredith Erickson about the roots of Can. Lit. being a “promising geriatric writer” and how to throw a great party [full text]

Afternoons in Exile

by Jared Young Summers for Jared Young mean basements, Slushies and comic books. That, and a broken heart. [full text]

Designed to Thrive

by Peter Jickling Would the deaf refuse new ears? Peter Jickling thinks they might. Arguing against the idea of disability as a liability, Jickling sees handicaps including his own cerebral palsy as differences worth celebrating [full text]

Where We Gather at Night

by Camilla Gibb “He had the knack you had with the camera, only he captured things perfectly with words, the words one wants to hear, not the words that are necessarily said.” [full text]

Radical Dreamers

by Derek Webster A dynamic exhibit at the Canadian Centre for Architecture asks: Is there a role today for the little magazine? [full text]
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]