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Salty Ink Reviews Archive
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In Celebration of National Short Fiction Month: Selected Short Fiction That Has Influenced Salty Ink’s Chad Pelley (4/4): Jessica Grant’s Making Light of Tragedy
Posted on May 13, 2010 | 1 CommentMaking Light of Tragedy (2004, Porcupine’s Quill) by Jessica Grant 203 pages Short fiction from the author of the multi-award-winning novel, Come, Thou Tortoise! The qualities of Jessica Grant’s writing... -
In Celebration of National Short Fiction Month: Selected Short Fiction That Has Influenced Salty Ink’s Chad Pelley, (2/4)
Posted on May 8, 2010 | No CommentsDirections for an Opened Body Kenneth J. Harvey Mercury Press (1990) 121 pages Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize! These stories slice because they’re pared down to a point. There’s... -
In Celebration of National Short Fiction Month: Selected Short Fiction That Has Influenced Salty Ink’s Chad Pelley, (1/4)
Posted on May 6, 2010 | No CommentsKathleen Winter boYs Biblioasis (2007) 189 pages Her vibrant use of language raised a bar for me, as a writer. Kathleen Winter’s vibrant collection of short stories, boYs, has won the... -
May’s Featured Book of the Month: Larry Mathews’ THE ARTIFICIAL NEWFOUNDLANDER
Posted on April 30, 2010 | No CommentsThe Artificial Newfoundlander is a fast-paced ride, a vibrant story, crackling with wit and adorned with an off kilter yet entirely realistic cast of characters. This is a great, gut-busting... -
Carla Gunn’s Amphibian: Entertaining, Informative, Topical, Funny … and Highly Recomended
Posted on April 15, 2010 | 1 Comment- Named a Top Five Debut Novel of 2009 by The Globe & Mail! -Listed in the Quill & Quire’s Best Books of 2009 edition! - included in the National Post’s Best Books... -
A Well-deserved, Glowing Review of Ryan Turner’s WHAT WE’RE MADE OF
Posted on April 4, 2010 | 1 CommentRyan Turner, What We’re Made Of (Oberon, 2009) Short fiction – Turner has been published in numerous journals, like Prairie Fire, Qwerty, and The New Quarterly. - Shortlisted for the 2008... -
April’s Featured Book of the Month: Darren Greer’s STILL LIFE WITH JUNE
Posted on March 31, 2010 | 1 Comment- 2009 Re-release of a Cormorant Bestseller - Winner of the 2004 ReLit Award. - A NOW Magazine top ten book of the year, and a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley... -
March’s Featured Book of the Month: Jessica Grant’s Come, Thou Tortoise
Posted on March 1, 2010 | 7 CommentsCome, Thou Tortoise (2009) Jessica Grant Knopf Canada - Available in softcover March 9th! - A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2009! - Shortlisted from the 2009 Winterset Award... -
Alden Nowlan’s The Wanton Troopers Combines the Authenticity of (masked) Autobiography with a Born Poet’s Lush Prose.
Posted on February 8, 2010 | No CommentsThe Wanton Troopers by Alden Nowlan (re-relased Reader’s Guide Edition) Goose Lane (2009), 297 pages Goose Lane recently re-released the legendary Alden Nowlan’s first novel, The Wanton Troopers, after discovering... -
February’s Featured Book of the Month: Lisa Moore’s FEBRUARY
Posted on January 31, 2010 | 2 CommentsYes, I am being purposefully witty: February’s book of the month is February, but also because the softcover version just hit stores. As I read February, I was overwhelmed with the... -
LOVESONGS OF EMMANUEL TAGGART by Syr Ruus; a modernized, fleshed out J. Alfred Prufrock.
Posted on January 13, 2010 | 3 CommentsLovesongs of Emmanuel Taggart, Syr Ruus Breakwater Books (2009), 248 pages Syr Ruus’s Lovesongs of Emmauel Taggart is an off-kilter but ultimately insightful novel that will have its ideal audience... -
January’s Featured Book of the Month / A Review of Leslie Vryenhoek’s SCRABBLE LESSONS
Posted on January 2, 2010 | 1 CommentScrabble Lessons is deeply affecting and gorgeously written. No detail is left blandly described, and it is all so fresh and vivid. Example: “The tears started, big fat drops cutting...
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