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By Ray Robertson

One among cutting-edge top younger novelists, Ray Robertson is usually one among its ablest critics. it is a number of his such a lot exciting, insightful, debatable, and funniest reports and essays written during the last 5 years. Believing that 'writers have a accountability to assist preserve the psychological hygiene in their time,' Robertson, following within the footsteps of Mordecai Richler and different novelist-critics similar to Anthony Burgess, Kingsley and Martin Amis and John Updike, is on the entrance line of latest literary debate. no matter if castigating the tasteless cabal he refers to as McCanlit, poking enjoyable on the stylish ephemera of highbrow model or arguing for his personal distinctive fictional aesthetic, Robertson pulls no punches and suffers no fools. Divided into 3 sections -- 'Us,' 'Them' and 'Me' - 'Mental Hygiene' gathers jointly either released and formerly unpublished studies of neighborhood and foreign writers in addition to 8 hugely own essays at the craft of fiction and the writing lifestyles in most cases.

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If it wasn't Uncle Sam attempting to manifest himself all over the place it would surely be someone else's uncle. e. " No one could mistake the prose of T. F. Rigelhof's novel Badass On A So/tail for anyone else's. Rigelhof's sentences do all the things the literary tastemakers tell us time and time again "well-written" prose isn't supposed to do. Stuffed full of alliteration and internal rhyme, his wonderfully crafted sentences constantly test the bounds of "correct" grammatical structure, his prose, in the process, emerging ten times tastier than most served up by the McCanLit factory.

Hunter, who grew up in Ontario but spent several years in Ireland before settling in Vancouver, sets her stories in London, Dublin, Vancouver and southern Ontario but without creating nearly as much contextual or thematic diversity. In "We Live in This World," a young woman flees a dinner party into the rain because her husband may or may not be conducting an affair with one of the guests and because a telephone call delivers the news that her brother is in a drug-induced coma. "Unto Herself" concerns itself with a slightly older woman who attempts suicide because of a failed pregnancy and the fact her husband most definitely is having an affair.

Not that this is likely to stop the novel from eliciting all sorts of critical oohs and aahs; in fact, it's exactly the sort of novel that most middle-brow, book-skimming Canadians love to love. Write your own version today, and witness the publishing world descend upon your doorstep tomorrow. R Rigelhof Goose Lane Editions, 222 pages At a bar in Toronto several months back I had that rarest of experiences for a writer of literary fiction: someone who had bought one of my books recognized me and told me how much they enjoyed it.

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