The Fiftieth Anniversary Issue of Canadian Notes & Queries arrived in my mailbox this week. I should've received it last month. I blame Deepak Chopra – not the Ageless Body Timeless Mind Deepak Chopra, this one.
Being the Fiftieth Anniversary Issue, much of the focus is on books from 1968:
John Metcalf writes on the short story "Images" from Dance of the Happy Shades, Alice Munro's debut. Not to be outdone, I chose to review A Lover More Condoling, the first novel by then-Take 30 co-host Adrienne Clarkson. Despite her fame, it enjoyed one lone printing, and never appeared in paperback. As I note in my review, the novel isn't so much as mentioned in Heart Matters, Clarkson's 2006 memoir.Les Manuscrits de Pauline Archange - Marie-Claire BlaisSarah Bastard's Notebook - Marian EngelI Am Mary Dunne - Brian MooreThe Shattered Plinths - Irving Layton
Might A Lover More Condoling be a forgotten treasure? Not wanting to spoil things, I'll say only that it has the most memorable sex scene I've read since Donna Steinberg's I Lost it All in Montreal.
Other contributors include:
The fifty-first year sees CNQ striking out in a new direction. "We decided a radical expansion of our reviewer estate was necessary given ever-shrinking critical space the nation's newspapers, online journals, and periodicals," writes editor Emily Donaldson.Randy BoyagodaAndreae CallananScott ChantlerPaige CooperTrevor CorkumKayla CzagaRachel DécosteDaniel DonaldsonAntony EastonJesse EckerlinAndré ForgetStephen FowlerAlex GoodJames GraingerBenjamin HertwigDoyali IslamTasneem JamalAnita LeheySibyl LambTracey LindbergRabindranath MaharajRohan MaitzenDavid MasonPatricia RobertsonMary H. Aurbach RykovSethJC SutcliffeVit WagnerBruce WhitemanMartha Wilson
And so, we have the very first CNQ book review supplement, with contributions by:
If you haven't already, now seems just the time to become a subscriber... easily done through this link.Michael BarrettMichel BasilièresStephen BeattieJeremiah BertramJeff BurseyKerry ClareAllison GillmorMonique GirouxAlex GoodBrett Joseph GrubisicStephen HenighanAmanda JerniganTess LiemDomenica MartinelloDilia NarduzziRuprapriya RathmoreMark SampsonSarah TolmieJonathan ValellyDerek WebsterJared Young
The Canada Post carrier who delivered this magazine to our rural mailbox chose not to fold it.
She is not paid enough.
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