Winter 2013: Narrative • The Capilano Review

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Jen Currin / Experiments in Narrative #2

Jen Currin

Jen Currin Experiments in Narrative #2 For my second TCR blog post, I decided to try another narrative experiment. In this one, I do a “mash-up,” or collage, of my … Continued

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On Helen Hajnoczky’s Poets, Killers, and Collagists

Derek Beaulieu

This article was originally published in issue 3.19 (Winter 2019) In her first book of poetry, Poets and Killers: A Life in Advertising, reports a single man’s life from delivery … Continued

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Jen Currin / Experiments in Narrative #1

Jen Currin

Jen Currin Experiments in Narrative #1 For my first TCR blog post, I thought I’d try to turn my story “Before Midnight” (titled waaaay before the movie) into a lyric … Continued

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Derek Beaulieu / Fragments and Sentences

Derek Beaulieu

Derek Beaulieu For my initial post for The Capilano Review‘s blog around the discussions in issue 3.19 (Narrative) I wanted to foreground some of my experiments with my novel Local … Continued

Alex Leslie I primarily write fiction and for years obsessively read “classic” short stories. I loved these stories. In particular the southern short story writers who emphasized thick detail, dark … Continued

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Jordan Abel / things that go unnoticed

Jordan Abel

Jordan Abel Recently, I’ve been thinking about things that go unnoticed. I’ve been thinking about writing that goes unread. I’ve been thinking about the issues that have been ignored. I’ve … Continued

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Jordan Abel / things that have been cut to pieces

Jordan Abel

Jordan Abel I want a literature that is not made from literature. —Bhanu Kapil “I want a literature that is not made from literature.” I want a literature. That is … Continued

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Meredith Quartermain / Narrative Clocks

Meredith Quartermain

Meredith Quartermain Time and Space in Narrative In my first novel, Rupert’s Land, I turned easily to dialogue, with very little description. Now in my second novel, I’m determined to … Continued

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Alex Leslie / The Library and its Uses

Alex Leslie

Alex Leslie I’m a book pusher. I like to read books, lend books, borrow books and recommend books. I would like it if you suggested that we exchange our books … Continued

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Meredith Quartermain / Narrative Eyes

Meredith Quartermain

Meredith Quartermain As soon as I started to write narrative, especially long ones like novels, another narrative sprang up, doubling the first – the narrative of writing itself. This has … Continued

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AUDIO / Narrative Panel at Capilano University on February 15, 2013

Bhanu Kapil, Ashok Mathur, Gail Scott and Alex Leslie

A recording of the third of four readings hosted at the university in conjunction with the publication of TCR’s winter 2013 narrative issue. The recording features a short reading by … Continued

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AUDIO / Ashok Mathur reading at Capilano University on February 14, 2013

Ashok Mathur

Excerpts from the first of four readings hosted at the university in conjunction with the publication of TCR’s winter 2013 narrative issue. Born in Bhopal, India, Ashok Mathur is the … Continued

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