Archive for 'Published Works'
The Literary Life of RA Dickey
Illustration by Chloe Cushman
The Literary Life of RA Dickey
“I’ll never forget my first public book signing,” he says. “I’ll bet no less than 15 or 20 people in that line leaned across the table, people I’d never even seen before that day, to tell me they were abused at some point in their past, and […]
Posted: March 29th, 2013 under New Published Work, Published Works, The National Post.
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The Feminine Mystique at 50
In the National Post:
…People asked me why I hadn’t taken my husband’s name. When we met with a mortgage broker he wouldn’t look me in the eye or address me directly. Mail came to the house addressed to “Mrs. His First Name His Last Name” and “The His Last Name Household.” […]
Posted: February 24th, 2013 under New Published Work, Published Works, The National Post.
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On not putting yourself out there
As writers feel more and more pressure to be 24/7, real-time public figures, we need to consider those who are disclosure-averse, who prefer to hide away and let their work stand as they have constructed it. We commonly celebrate living openly as a courageous act, being “thick-skinned” as a virtue, yet […]
Posted: February 19th, 2013 under New Published Work, Published Works, The National Post.
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The Walrus Reads: Review of Sweet Jesus
In the December issue of The Walrus, a review of Christine Poutney’s Sweet Jesus
“A man in a clown suit delivers a pizza to his dying, Vogue-reading boyfriend. He places the pizza on the bed and retreats to the bathroom to remove his wig, and upon examining his dandruff thinks, “Even in the […]
Posted: November 19th, 2012 under Reviews, Published Works, The Walrus.
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From The National Post
What can’t be published: A month-long effort to document a sexual assault led to a detailed, engaging piece too difficult to read
“Writing is risk, yet for me, personal protection is always superseded by the purpose of the craft; it is an act of figuring out a feeling, a way of lending structure to an […]
Posted: November 2nd, 2012 under New Published Work, Published Works, The National Post.
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From The Walrus
A Girl’s Life: Marjorie Celona’s coming of age novel, Y, tells a familiar story of female suffering
“While the male Bildungsroman , such as Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Catcher in the Rye, or The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, tends to involve the acquisition of power, the experience of adventure, or the act of […]
Posted: November 2nd, 2012 under New Published Work, Reviews, Published Works, The Walrus.
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Recent Things
“Leanne Shapton asks the question so many of us are embarrassed to articulate — what is the implication of coming very close to greatness, of very nearly grasping it, yet falling short?” A review of Swimming Studies in The National Post.
“We have been fooling ourselves that narrative and plot, and the gleeful […]
Posted: July 23rd, 2012 under Reviews, Published Works, The Walrus, The National Post.
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In Defence of the Confession
The Walrus: How the literary establishment mistreats young, shameless writers like Marie Calloway
“Unregulated honesty is painted as juvenile tendency, as if with age comes the gift of selective concealment — to succeed in any serious literary endeavour, one must develop a cold distance even from the most intimate events of our lives. This necessity […]
Posted: January 14th, 2012 under New Published Work, Published Works, The Walrus.
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“Safe Harbor,” appearing in Soft Skull’s Madonna and Me
Image via @kimlw
Madonna & Me will be published by Soft Skull Press in March 2012. In Madonna & Me, nearly 40 female authors including Cintra Wilson, Gloria Feldt, Caroline Leavitt, Bee Lavender, Wendy Shanker, and Susan Shapiro write about how Madonna changed their lives.
Posted: January 8th, 2012 under New Published Work, Published Works.
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Buy The Books!
Be Good, a novel
Quill and Quire: “…the novel offers a thoughtful examination of sexuality, relationships, and what it means to tell the truth.”
This Magazine: “…probably the most finely realized small press novel to come out of Canada in the last year…Thank you, Stacey May Fowles.”
Fear of Fighting, a novel with illustrations by Marlena Zuber
Eye Weekly: […]
Posted: July 18th, 2010 under Reviews, Be Good, Fear of Fighting, Published Works, She's Shameless.
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