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How You Were Born
First published in 2014, this tenth-anniversary edition of the award-winning collection includes three new stories. A young mother intrudes in the life of an older woman, thinking she knows what's best. An academic becomes convinced that he is haunted by his double. Two children spy on their supposedly criminal neighbours. A man enables his cousin's predatory impulses out of loyalty, and a circus performer dreams of a perfect wedding. These characters fail despite their best intentions and continue on despite their failures. The stories in How You Were Born, each more incisive and devastating than the last, examine the difficult business of love, loyalty, and memory. Sharing the bizarre and tragi-comic of life—whether in present-day Toronto or in small towns of the early 20th century—Cayley champions the importance of connections, even when missed or mislaid, and the possibility of redemption.
Little Death
Alex may or may not be dying. Confronted with his mortality, he searches for sex and connection in hotel bars -- with his wife Brit's conflicted blessing.Little Death, the lyrical new drama from CBC Fiction Prize-winner and Dora Award-nominated playwright Daniel Karasik, is a gripping study of sexuality under extreme pressure. Tender and fierce by turns, in precise, musical language that straddles the boundary between poetic verse and dramatic prose, this play for six actors (5 F, 1 M) asks fundamental questions about marriage, fidelity, and the intimate needs of men and women. Prior to its premiere production at Toronto's Theatre Centre in April 2015, Little Death was developed at the Royal...
The Crossing Guard
Complex relationships are formed and broken, discoveries are made, and lives are changed in these two acclaimed plays.
Plenitude
A non-binary faun wishes their body had a variety of sex organs, interchangeable daily. A prison abolitionist scrutinizes Rothko paintings on the carceral state's boardroom walls. The insurrectionary tactics of mass social movements spread, like a secret handshake, from Chile to Hong Kong to Toronto. Shaped by Daniel Sarah Karasik's experience of grassroots social and political advocacy, these poems are an offering to those engaged in struggles for a better world--and an acknowledgement of the sometimes contradictory meanings of those struggles. How do individual erotic desires relate to collective desires for deliverance from alienation and exploitation? How might we dream of a more humane future and work towards building it without minimizing the challenges that stand in our way? Plenitude cartwheels towards a world that might be: a world without cops or bosses, without prisons, without oppressive regulation of gender and desire. It is a song for the excluded and forgotten and those who struggle alongside them.
Hungry
Wry and searching, wise and playful, Daniel Karasik's poetic voice is singular, the voice of an old soul navigating contemporary straits. Witty delight and precocious insight commingle in refreshingly accesible poems whose thrust is philosophical even when the poet is at his most irreverent. Hungry, Karasik's first collection of poetry, is an introduction to one of the bright literary lights of his generation.
Faithful and Other Stories
"In Faithful and Other Stories Daniel Karasik brings together an assortment of complex characters searching for meaning and connection in a world that is by turns violent and indifferent. These award-winning stories have received the CBC Short Story Prize, The Malahat Review's Jack Hodgins Founders' Award for Fiction, the Alta Lind Cook Prize, and the Norma Epstein National Literary Award, and have appeared in such magazines as The North American Review, The Malahat Review, and Air Canada's EnRoute Magazine."--
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In Full Light
Ben's teenaged daughter Claire is hit by a car. To ease his conscience, Leon, the driver, approaches Ben with a cheque. Which Ben takes. But now why is Leon calling Ben at work and showing up on his front lawn? And what's going on with Claire, now recovered, throwing rocks at the window of the boy who lives across the street? In 'Full Light' is a riveting exploration of obligation, obsession and desire.
