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Football Fables

The beautiful game bestrides the world like a colossus

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Connie Gault

Connie Gault writes fiction and plays. Her most recent book is the novel Euphoria (Coteau Books, 2009).

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Inventive Evasion

Narrative games avoid the problem of confronting pain June 2010
“Strive to imagine,” a little old lady tells one of the characters in The Breakwater House. Pascale Quiviger is fond of recommendations like this, ones that read like instructions to the reader as much as to the characters. It is good advice for writers, too. Quiviger’s first novel, The Perfect Circle, won the 2004 French-language Governor General’s Literary Award…