By Mark Leiren-Young Somebody has to tell Terry Fallis how publishing works. When he couldn’t find a publisher for his debut novel – the story of a reluctant campaign manager managing an even more reluctant candidate for the Parliament of Canada — Fallis released his story a chapter at a time as a podcast series […]
On the outskirts of Salacioustown
ALONE IN THE CLASSROOM By Elizabeth Hay McClelland & Stewart 320 pages, $29.95 Review By Rachel Krueger The blurb-o-matics must be killing themselves over this. Alone in the Classroom has NO PLOT. Or it has many plots. A surfeit of plots. Thank god it also has ssssssecrets. (And is weirdly amazing.) It begins with the […]
Atwood at her dystopic best
YEAR OF THE FLOOD By Margaret Atwood McClelland & Stewart 448 pp., $32.99 Review by Rachel Krueger Margaret Atwood is at her haranguing best when she’s whipping up appalling futures for us all. She’s had several career missteps when her agenda has written cheques that her skills can’t cash, but The Year of the Flood […]
