Quill and Quire

By David Carpenter

The title of Warren Cariou’s foreword to Welcome to Canada, a volume of David Carpenter’s new and selected stories, is “You Are Now Entering Carpenter Country.” Carpenter’s fictional landscape – located mainly in the outposts ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

By Philip Quinn

For Robert Walker, the tormented mid-thirties anti-hero of Philip Quinn’s second novel, there’s “Always something breached, open, some wound, hole....  Some box you’re trying to get out of, or into.” Ruptures and imprisonments figure prominently ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels