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A Love Letter to Story-telling
A Review of Helen Marshall’s Gifts for the One Who Comes After (ChiZine Publications, 2014) By Derek Newman-Stille Cover Art for Gifts For the One Who Comes After courtesy of ChiZine Publications Helen...
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A Mosaic of Stories
A review of Steve Vernon and Colleen Anderson’s Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast (Edge 2013) By Derek Newman-Stille Cover photo for Tesseracts Seventeen courtesy of...
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Speculating Canada on Trent Radio Episode 34: An Interview with Helen Marshall
At the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, I was able to take a few moments of Helen Marshall’s time to do an interview. In this interview on Speculating Canada, we talk about the...
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No Longer Invulnerable, But Not Vulnerable Enough
A review of Matthew Johnson’s “Heroic Measures” in Irregular Verbs and Other Stories (ChiZine, 2014) by Derek Newman-Stille Superheroes inspire the imagination. They are larger than life. They are...
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Nursing Home Zombies
A review of Matthew Johnson’s “The Afflicted” in Irregular Verbs and Other Stories (ChiZine Publications, 2014). By Derek Newman-Stille Matthew Johnson’s “The Afflicted” levels a critique at older...
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Speculating Canada on Trent Radio Episode 44: A Discussion of the Work of...
In this episode of Speculating Canada on Trent Radio, the work of Matthew Johnson is explored. This episode examines Matthew Johnson’s collection Irregular Verbs and Other Stories (ChiZine...
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Speculating Canada on Trent Radio Episode 45: A Discussion of the Work of...
In this episode of Speculating Canada on Trent Radio, I explore the work of Caribbean Canadian author Nalo Hopkinson. I explore themes of dual vision, cultural interactions, aging, connections with...
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Growing Up Monstrous
A review of Nalo Hopkinson’s “The Easthound” in Falling in Love With Hominids (Tachyon Publications, 2015) By Derek Newman-Stille Nalo Hopkinson’s “The Easthound” takes the reader onto the streets with...
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The Oddity of Children
A review of Nalo Hopkinson’s “Message in a Bottle” in Falling in Love with Hominids (Tachyon, 2015)By Derek Newman-Stille Nalo Hopkinson’s “Message in a Bottle” explores the strange nature of children...
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Psychiatric Vampirism
A review of Max Turner’s Night Runner (Harper Trophy Canada, 2008) By Derek Newman-Stille I am excited to be able to talk about a book that deals with Peterborough, the town that I have come to call...
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Transitional Words
A review of Nalo Hopkinson’s Falling in Love With Hominids (Tachyon Publications, 2015) By Derek Newman-Stille Falling in Love with Hominids illustrates Nalo Hopkinson’s playfulness with language, her...
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Speculating Canada on Trent Radio Episode 48: A Discussion of the Work of Max...
In this episode of Speculating Canada on Trent Radio, I interrogate the work of Max Turner, an author who explores the notion of the psychiatric institution through the perspective of a vampire. Turner...
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Learning How Not To Be A Hero
Learning How Not to Be A HeroA review of Edward Willett’s “Falcon’s Egg” (Bundoran Press, 2015) By Derek Newman-Stille Lorn had always wanted to be a hero, always looked up to those revolutionary...
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A Spectacle of Beauty and Estrangement
A Spectacle of Beauty and EstrangementA review of Marie Bilodeau’s Nigh Book 3 (S &G Publishing, 2015) The third book of Nigh by Marie Bilodeau brings the reader into the realm of fairy itself, a...
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Multiple Faces of Identity
A Review of Kate Story’s “Show and Tell” In Playground of Lost Toys (Exile Editions, 2015)by Derek Newman-Stille School can be a horror story. It is a space where identity is controlled and regulated...
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Here is a holiday story for you this December. Renaissance Press is creating a tour of different websites where authors can showcase their fiction and they invited me to participate and share a short...
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