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Seymour Chatman. “What Can We Learn from Contextual Narratology?” Poetics Today 11:2. p. 312 [Chatman is arguing against an undermining the discourse-story distinction.] All that narratology argues is the difference between the act of telling (or showing) and the object … Continue reading →

From Coach House Press. Both from 1988. Cover designs by Gordon Robertson. from p. 76 from p. 62 someone stopped suddenly    someone dreamed you’re somewhere less than perfect but reading the story the white boletus grows like a cherub, scented with … Continue reading →

Mary Catherine Bateson With a Daughter’s Eye: a memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson New York: William Morrow & Company, 1984 pp. 85-86 She worked for years to improve international and cross-cultural communication, so at one time she was … Continue reading →

Lesbian National Parks and Services Field Guide to North America: Flora, Fauna & Survival Skills (Pedlar Press, 2002) It looks like a field guide: strong stock, rounded corners, right shape and size to fit into the pocket of cargo pants. … Continue reading →

Bless YouTube and Michael McKay. [Well for a time anyway – the video has been taken down] The 1994 production of Brad Walton’s Baroque-style opera The Loves of Wayne Gretzky as performed and recorded on February 13, 1994 at Symptom … Continue reading →

In She’s Gonna Be edited by Ann Decter one finds a short prose piece by Annie Coyle Martin entitled “Jody”. It begins in unassuming fashion with a character’s wish “I wish once, just once, my mother would come alone to … Continue reading →

The business pages of the newspaper are seldom spot to find humour, let alone an extended conceit conducive to much mirth. John Heinzl “Stars and Dogs” in Globe and Mail Wal-Mart Things that are hard to find 1) A needle … Continue reading →