Beginning Again
After a long gap, this blog starts up once more with some good news.
A special double issue of subTerrain (Nos 54-55), titled “Vancouver’ s Literary Landscape,” includes a two-page spread on my work. It focuses on my novel Making A Stone Of The Heart, including an excerpt, but also comments at some length on English Stories. The critique is highly favourable throughout, and to my pleasure is by Bart Campbell. In 2002 we were both finalists for the City of Vancouver Book Prize, I for Making A Stone and he for a fine and unique book called The Door Is Open (Anvil Press), about his work at a soup kitchen in the Downtown East Side. (The award went to Stolo: A Coast Salish Historical Atlas, from D & M.
This special issue of subTerrain, like most such, will annoy as much as it pleases. Why is X here? Why on earth isn’t Y here? Etc. I was surprised that so many writers of roughly my generation appeared — seemed like rather a shortage of young people — but reasonably okay with the numbers of women represented. And the feeling, the ambiance of Vancouver did come through intensely.
Another recent appearance, in WordWorks, I’ll address soon.
