Eric's Hangout

Badlands was Kroetsch's next novel after Gone Indian.  While some aspects of post modern fiction linger, this is a bit more in the vein ...

I wanted to start by acknowledging the very nice set of 4 poetry books donated by Brick Books to the Canadian Book Challenge at the Bookmin...

As I mentioned in my last post, Wayde Compton founded a press and published Fred Booker's Adventures in Debt Collectio n in 2006. Booke...

This review is going to be a bit different.  It is a joint review of two books by Wayde Compton, a Vancouver-based poet/artist/activist.  Wa...

I believe this brings me to Kroetsch's The Studhorse Man.  To me this is Kroetsch's greatest achievement, yet it was only his third ...

I'm not entirely sure why Bissoondath's The Innocence of Age came to the top of my reading list once I decided to start reading Can....

I'll only have a few minutes to write some thoughts on this short story collection and then circle back a bit later (it is due at the li...