Light Lifting by Alexander MacLeod is anything but light. In a collection of seven short stories, his characters face the physical reality of life, death, illness, and exhaustion. They are fighters, they are bricklayers, they are swimmers struggling for life against the Nova Scotia tide. MacLeod structures the majority of his stories with a tight [...]
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What Boys Like: A Review
April 21, 2011 – 9:03 am
Kurt Cobain once said: I’d rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not. In her short story collection What Boys Like, Amy Jones illustrates many characters who, in these fifteen brilliantly well-crafted tales, much like Cobain, revel in their own uniqueness of who they are, rather than who they are not. Jones takes great care to explore the tenuous, callous and often humorous boundaries of human relationships, while maintaining one consistent theme, it seems: everyone has something to lose.
Interview with Rebecca Rosenblum, Author of Once
March 10, 2011 – 8:25 am
Sheila Lamb interviews Rebecca Rosenblum, author of Once.
The Returning: A Review
February 23, 2011 – 7:14 am
Sheila Lamb reviews The Returning, by Christine Hinwood.