December 2020 | The Miramichi Reader

Halifax and Me by Harry Bruce

December 22, 2020 by Bill Arnott

A memoir of life in Halifax from an award-winning author, and one of Canada’s top non-fiction writers. In 1971, Harry Bruce, recognized as one of Canada’s top non-fiction writers, lost his mind—according to his peers—when he left bustling, lucrative Toronto and moved his family to the tough little seaport of Halifax.

Warrior Life: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence by Pam Palmater

December 21, 2020 by Rachel Fernandes

Warrior Life: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence is the second collection of writings by Palmater. In keeping with her previous works, numerous op-eds, media commentaries, YouTube channel videos and podcasts, Palmater’s work is fiercely anti-colonial, anti-racist, and more crucial than ever before.

On This Day: 365 Tales of History, Mystery, and More by Dale Jarvis

December 19, 2020December 19, 2020 by Lisa Timpf

Self-described as “weird little pieces of half-forgotten history and folklore from all over Newfoundland and Labrador, one for every day of the year” . . .

Standing On The Shoulders Of Our Mentors

December 16, 2020 by Chris Banks

Marvin Bell died yesterday. A poetic giant has fallen. His Dead Man poems are everything good poetry is about: deeply imagistic, humane, formally ambitious, culturally significant, political without pretension, and on and on. It is the work of a lifetime. His death made me realize most of my poetic mentors are now gone. Hayden Carruth. Mark Strand. Philip Levine. And now Marvin Bell.

Bill Arnott’s Showcase Interviews: Kyla Estoya

December 13, 2020December 13, 2020 by Bill Arnott

Welcome back to Showcase Interviews, meeting artists through Q&A. Today we’re privileged to visit with the diversely talented Kyla Estoya, editor of New Reader Magazine, the mixed media publication with hubs in New York, London, Hong Kong, and Kyla’s home country of Philippines. What a pleasure to have you on the Showcase, Kyla! Let’s introduce …

Czech Techno & Other Stories of Music by Mark Anthony Jarman

March 28, 2021December 12, 2020 by Mala Rai

If you like your stories to follow a straight line, this quintuplet may give you whiplash. Each one invites you into an introspective world of intense emotions, whether for a woman, 4-track cassette, California in the 90s, or disdain for accordions and addiction aftermath. Plenty of play on wordplay suggest that these stories are best …

Red Rover, Red Rover by Bob Hicok

December 10, 2020 by Chris Banks

Bob Hicok’s Red Rover Red Rover is joyous and macabre, hopeful and morbid, caring and critical.

One for the Rock by Kevin Major

December 9, 2020 by Ian Colford

In One for the Rock, his first venture into crime fiction, Kevin Major has written a fast-paced and highly enjoyable novel that will appeal to fans of the genre, but which also offers the dual bonus of an engaging narrator and a vividly rendered St. John’s, Newfoundland setting.

Bill Arnott’s Showcase Interviews: Doctor Manuel Matas

December 6, 2020 by Bill Arnott

Today we’re privileged to chat with Doctor Manuel Matas. I had the pleasure of meeting Manny at the Whistler Writers Festival where he was a WIBA Awards Finalist for his paranormal memoir, The Borders of Normal.

The Hush Sisters by Gerard Collins

October 12, 2024December 5, 2020 by Gemma Marr

Sissy and Ava Hush are estranged, middle-aged sisters with little in common beyond their upbringing in a peculiar manor in downtown St. John’s. With both parents now dead, the siblings must decide what to do with the old house they’ve inherited.

A Woman’s Sentiment by Susanna Peremartoni

May 28, 2024December 5, 2020 by Susanna Peremartoni

About the author: Susanna Peremartoni graduated in Miskolc and Budapest. From the age of 23, she lived in Darmstadt, Germany, as a ceramic assistant. She has exhibited in Helsinki and Vienna. She published her first volume in 2016 with Black Eagle Publisher (Budapest). In 2018 she produced a Hungarian and English recording of a jazz poetry CD at Origó Studio. The Hungarian CD is available at the Rózsavölgyi Music Store, the Wave Record Store and at the Plate Maker. The English version of the CD is sold in two locations in Vancouver, Canada (Beatstreets Records, Neptoon Records). As of September 2020, she has been a member of the new generation of beat poets with the National Beat Poetry Foundation, Inc.

A Few Feet Short: an Uncommon Journey to Everest by Jamey Glasnovic

December 3, 2020 by Bill Arnott

From the Kathmandu Valley to the Middle Hills and the highest peaks on the planet, Glasnovic’s journey takes him through the cultural melting pot of northeastern Nepal and up into the Khumbu Valley, traditional homeland of the Sherpa people, finding his way eventually, and without any intention of actually climbing it, to the base of that most iconic of mountains, Everest.

The Lightning of Possible Storms by Jonathan Ball

December 12, 2021December 1, 2020 by Ian Colford

Jonathan Ball’s short fiction collection, The Lightning of Possible Storms, is a volume that exults in the many ways in which it confounds expectations and keeps the reader off-balance. Ball’s stories are brashly eccentric, cynical, surreal and delightfully subversive metafictions.