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Savage, 1986-2011
Nate's nervous mother chews gum at warp speed and has a bob that resembles Darth Vader's helmet. His icy father dabbles part-time in the death trade at a funeral home after working for a decade in the insurance racket. His older sister Holly is always lurking in the shadows or away at school. Nate, a creative, messy, and anxious teen, has chosen Randy Savage as his hero. As he finishes high school, the world to which Savage belongs is quickly waning in popularity, and Nate begins to seethe wrestler's downfall mirrored in his own life. But not until the family dismantles for good in 1994 does Nate's life truly begin to fracture. Savage 1986-2011 chronicles the middle-class implosion of Nate's...
Toronto Noir
A multicultural nexus, Toronto hosts Indian, Portuguese, African, Italian, and Chinese communities that provide fertile backdrops for Toronto Noir's corrosive expos s. Features brand-new stories by: RM Vaughan, Nathan Sellyn, Ibi Kaslik, Peter Robinson, Heather Birrell, Sean Dixon, Raywat Deonandad, Christine Murray, Gail Bowen, Emily Schultz, Andrew Pyper, Kim Moritsugu, Mark Sinnet, George Elliott Clarke, Pasha Malla, and Michael Redhill.
Let's Pretend We Never Met
Let's Pretend We Never Met realizes the ten-year fixation the late great Roman poet Catullus has had on Nathaniel G. Moore. Catullus becomes filter, lens, judge, subject and object. From the subjective finality of first-person illusory, Let's Pretend We Never Met is a poetic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. With dramatic pauses, near-novella overtures and biographical necessity Let's Pretend We Never Met cashes in nostalgia for a more bitter and honest currency for today's disposable culture. Like Michael Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kidd, Moore's poetry is a obsessed poetic biography, showcasing Moore at the height of his grave shift powers as a romantic pain magnet and exorciser--attempting to Houdini Catullus and himself from regret, depravity, and other histrionic side effects of modern life. With special appearances by Catullus' agent, Juventius, Rufus, Clodia Metelli and more.
Constrictor
Constrictor piles shock on top of shock until all one can feel is the places where ones nerves are twitching liked downed Hydro wires. A long poem outlining the trauma and resolution of teenage sexual abuse acts as the centre piece for a collection which examines the chaotic imbalance of power dynamics. These rowdy, risky poems are like sticking your fingers into an electric fan. Whether detailing love torn at every corner, family tragedy or economic anxiety, Nathaniel G. Moore's fourth collection of poetry examines the pulsing shrapnel years after the case has run cold.
Wrong Bar
When Maudlin City writer Charles Haas wakes up in a makeshift grave complete with a windowpane roof, he realizes two things: firstly, it’s a scene from one of his abandoned manuscripts, and secondly, he must stop showing his writing to strangers. After getting mixed up with a group of teens, Charles was both fascinated and disturbed by them and their cult-like culture. Things turn dark once Charles discovers that the teens are in the midst of plotting a demonic dance party hoax, led by the evil 18-year-old Shawn Michaels. Charles is convinced that they are throwing themselves into a tech-crazed and depraved oblivion, and that they will definitely leave him for dead. The story is composed through a variety of devices, including Haas’s narration, clips from new stories, illustrations, police transcripts, screenplays, and text messages. This is a novel that refuses to celebrate the wild child within, instead seeking the greater emotional truth behind the teenaged psychodramatic passions of a deranged generation thriving in the millennial era.
Autobiography of Childhood
"Queyras' novel scores the jagged incisions of childhood. How her characters escape or embrace or succumb to the damage, she manages through an exquisite prose that cannot comfort them, nor ease us. Yes we cannot help but be held by the language."—Dionne Brand Five siblings, all haunted by the death of a brother in their youth. One winter day, when another of them will be taken by cancer. Guddy is struggling to fly across the continent in a snowstorm to see her sister while she still can. Jerry, avoiding the phone, hits the highway, driving as fast as he can away from his back pain and his son. Bjarne, just back from six years on the streets, is watching Judge Judy, trying to quiet the voi...
Goodbye Horses
"Catullus (c. 84 - 53 BC) was raised in a leading equestrian family in Verona. At twenty he moved to Rome and fell in with a group of new poets, or neoteroi as Cicero called them, living a hedonistic existence for the better part of a decade. After his brother's death, Catullus' thoughts migrated home, perhaps to help with the family business and make a living to support a wife and family, something he would never achieve before his death at thirty. The pain of his brother's death, coupled with the pain of Lesbia's rejection and her unwillingness to marry him followed him until his final days. In Goodbye Horses, Nathaniel G. Moore reanimates the lion's share of Catullus' surviving poems in a...
Scarred
As seen in the HBO docuseries THE VOW: The shocking and subversive memoir of a 12-year-NXIVM-member-turned-whistleblower, and her inspiring true story of abuse, escape, and redemption. "'Master, would you brand me? It would be an honor.' From the second I climb onto the table, acutely aware that I am lying in the sweat of my sisters, I will have blocked that out. Lying there completely naked, I am at my most vulnerable but determined to prove my strength. I try to keep my legs closed as my body wills itself to protect my most private area. . . . I tell myself: I am a warrior. I birthed a human. I can handle pain. But nothing could have ever prepared me for the feel of this fire on my skin." ...
Obits.
In Obits. a speaker tries and fails to write obituaries for those whose memorials are missing, those who are represented only as statistics. She considers victims of mass deaths, fictional characters, and her own aunt, asking what does it mean to be an 'I' mourning a 'you' when both have been othered? Centring vulnerability, the various answers to this question pass through trauma, depression, and the experience of being a mixed-race queer woman.
