Astrid Blodgett
The Weekender Effect II: Fallout
What happens when where you live, and most of the people among whom you are forced to live, begin to disgust you?” asks Robert Sandford in his opening to The Weekender Effect II: Fallout, the [...]
This One Wild Life: A Mother–Daughter Wilderness Memoir
One of the writers Angie Abdou calls upon in This One Wild Life is Haruki Murakami, who, she tells us, wrote about running to try to understand what running means. In this memoir, Abdou writes to [...]
Rough
The epigraph to Rough, from The Hobbit—“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, but it is not always quite the something you were [...]
Watershed
Doreen Vanderstoop’s debut novel, Watershed, is a disturbing glimpse into Alberta’s future: The year is 2058; the glaciers have dried up, the rivers run dry. Calgary, where the novel is partly [...]