Bad Actors: Second Pi in the Face by Ira Nayman
As anyone familiar with Nayman’s work might expect, Bad Actors is steeped in humour in a variety of forms, including ridiculous situations, slapstick, tangential digressions, and word play.
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The Sick Box by Matthew Fries
In Matthew Fries’ novel The Sick Box, wanna-be advice columnist, Ben Matthews, is faced with a ridiculous problem that even he can offer no explanation for.
The Swells by Will Aitken
In this darkly hilarious satire by the inimitable Will Aitken, class war erupts aboard a luxury cruise ship.
Sick in Bed Across Two Chairs, with My Feet out Through the Window by Laurie Blackwood Pike
Grandpa Pike may not have “seen it all,” but he has a lifetime of encounters-both serious and humourous-from his life in Newfoundland, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia that make for terrific reading.
The Miramichi Reader’s Tips for An Autumn Road Trip by Kelley-Jo Burke
There’s still time for a road trip (I’ve got one coming up) before it gets cold and wintery and all the other conditions under which sane people (read, non-Canadians, especially non-Western Canadians) stay off the road. When planning for a road trip, author Kelley Jo Burke has the following suggestions for the anxious traveller.
The Liquor Vicar by Vince R. Ditrich
Reduced to DJing rural weddings, Tony Vicar feels the bite of failure. A frustrated and failed musician, unable to discern why he has not ascended to stardom, his only defence is to see the world through the lens of gallows humour, absurdism, and black comedy.
Fight Night by Miriam Toews
Those who enjoy appreciating cutting, witty, and sometimes dark humour with a dash of philosophical thought mixed in will find much to like in this Miriam Toews novel.
Disease By Sarah Tolmie
“Sarah Tolmie’s Disease is a strangely funny book about fictitious diseases and psychological conditions. Presented in a scholarly tone that resembles a series of academic case studies, this book looks at some bizarre ailments that range from scavenging, a psychological affliction in which people compulsively move into old houses, to a poor guy who developed an allergy to comedy.
Don’t Be Talkin’: Recitations and Other Foolishness From Newfoundland and Labrador by Harry Ingram
Within Don’t Be Talkin’ you’ll find stories and recitations told by the incomparable performer Harry Ingram.
Good Citizens Need Not Fear by Maria Reva
In her sure-handed debut volume of short fiction, Good Citizens Need Not Fear, Maria Reva writes with an insider’s familiarity about the last days of the Soviet Union and what followed in the months and years after the Communist regime’s ignominious collapse.
Bill Arnott’s Beat: On Buddhism
Bill Arnott reflects back on his “private” audience with the Dalai Lama.
Supermarket Baby by Susan Flanagan
Who would have thought that a single dose of “cold and sinus” medication and a …
Fishnets & Fantasies by Jane Doucet
Well, well, well. Jane Doucet, you have done it again. Just like your first novel, …
Please Stand By by Carolyn Bennett
Carolyn Bennett’s debut novel Please Stand By is a fast-paced story about a woman trying …
The Story of Steve – Part 2 of 2
Six years later, with my pet Steve-the-African-tree-frog, I headed off to grad school, a four-thousand-kilometre …