Emily Schultz’s career has been on an upward trajectory for some time now. The author followed her debut story collection, Black Coffee Night (Insomniac Press), with a novel, Joyland, and collection of poems, Songs for the Dancing Chicken (both ECW Press). The aforementioned novel lends its name to an acclaimed short-fiction website (or “hub,” as its creators, Schultz and her husband, writer Brian Joseph Davis, prefer to call it), which was recently spun off as an e-publisher. Schultz’s second novel, Heaven Is Small (House of Anansi Press), received glowing reviews and was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award, along with novels by Margaret Atwood and Anne Michaels. With her third novel, Schultz has moved to Doubleday Canada. The Blondes ($32.95 cl., May), about a mysterious illness that turns blonde women into vicious killers, looks to be an extension of the author’s signature mix of quirky postmodernism and biting satire.
