Grab Your Hammer It’s the Speech Police
byAn adapted introduction (on the importance of satire) to Edward Riche’s new essay collection, Bag of Hammers
Excerpts
Karen Smythe’s Self-Dissection
byAn excerpt from This Side of Sad (copyright (c) 2017, used by permission of Goose Lane Editions), Karen Smythe’s hotly anticipated first novel. Smythe was a fiction editor of the Pottersfield Portfolio and has published short stories with some of Canada’s best literary journals.
Promises to Keep
byAn excerpt from Genevieve Graham’s tale of love in the time of the Acadian Expulsion
How to Make Acadian Molasses Cake/Gâteau à la Mélasse
byYou saw the picture in the magazine; now here’s the recipe for delicious, from Simon Thibault. You’re welcome.
Whispers of Mermaids and Wonderful Things: Can’t-Go-Wrong Children’s Poems
byAn excerpt from the Foreword of Whispers of Mermaids and Wonderful Things: Children’s Poetry and Verse from Atlantic Canada
Here Was Freedom
byNewfoundland offered a true escape hatch to political freedom from the Iron Curtain.
