This debut collection is filled with sensory detail. From brisket and chicken soup to gefilte fish and borscht. From paint-by-number clowns to lacy pillow-slips. From red-striped deck chairs to weathered shutters. Inanna Publications, 2016 Whether it's Debussy or lyrics from "Oklahoma", the details matter. But Aspects of Nature is actually preoccupied
It might seem to be, at first glance, a quintessential CanLit passage, a poetic description of the natural world. Linda Leith Publishing, 2016 But the opening passage of The Company of Crows reveals more about Karen Molson's debut novel, than one might think. "Thin grey lines fan out across the
"My main career goal has been to get to go to work every day on something that I'm proud of, with a bunch of people I really like and respect, who make me laugh." Grand Central Publishing - Hachette, 2016 This is Jessi Klein, interviewed by Cosmo, for
If it's true, that “new thoughts only happen at the edge of what we already know”, then Malcolm Sutton's Job Shadowing has provided me with plenty of new thoughts. Book Thug, 2016 Job Shadowing is a novel which pools at the edges of the shape that I recognize as fiction. It would be
"It's about being an explorer, a treasure-hunter." Sue Finlay is still passionate about her work for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, just as she was in 1957, when she put her love of numbers to work. (See video here.) She speaks about the early days spent with a Friedan calculator and a
