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<p>When jazz musicians of the ’30s and ’40s were gettin’ down, when things were really cookin’ they’d say, Yeah, make it tight like that.

<p><i>What It Feels Like for a Girl</i> is a series of poems following the intense friendship between two teenagers as they explore pop icons, pornography, and the big, strange wo

<p>“Literary escapades enlighten and entertain in this boundary-pushing collection.” (<i>Foreword Reviews</i>)</p> <p>“The maestro is at it again” (<i>The Vancou

<p>“Reading the Riot Act” is a phrase that has entered the popular lexicon, meaning the action taken by authority figures when they perceive that their “charges” are getting out of hand.

<p>Drinkin’ rye and water with Grandma. Guns in False Creek. Frat boy homies from the North Delta ghetto. Samuel L. Jackson. Phantom Lord & Metallica.

Rawson learns to his cost that the life-spark of a fabled race glows in the black heart of a dead, Western volcano.

<p><i>Burqa of Skin</i> is a dense collection of writings from Nelly Arcan, channelling harrowing disenchantment and indignation.

<p>Longlisted for the ReLit Award</p> <p>Editor's Pick, <i>Vancouver Sun</i></p> <p><i>Dirtbags</i> is a novel about reckoning?with one?s

<p>Longlisted for the ReLit Award (2006)</p> <p><i>Going to New Orleans</i> is the story of Lewis King, a jazz trumpet player who lands a gig in the Big Easy.

<p>Longlisted for a ReLit Award (2007)</p> <p>Alcuin Society Citation for Excellence in Design</p> <p>The stories in <i>Sugar Bush & Other Stories</i>

<p>Winner, 2011 ReLit Award</p> <p>From the author of <i>Pontypool Changes Everything</i>, <i>Ravenna Gets</i> is a new collection of “wheeled” stories tha

<p>Four disparate people confront each other--their memory and their responsibility--at the emergency room of a hospital when brought together by the crisis of a teenager suffering a psychiat

<p>Winner, 3-Day Novel-Writing Contest (1999)</p> <p>Winner, Inaugural ReLit Award (2001)</p> <p>Salacious, funny, and painfully emotive, <i>Skin</i> is a

<p><i>The Incomparables</i> is the debut novel from the Trillium nominated author of <i>Animal</i>.

<p><i>Kaspoit!</i> puts speculative illustration to the most profuse series of crimes ever to take place on Canadian soil.