Literature

[close] Celebrate International Chick Lit month with a fun read by breakout author Sabrina Zollo. If you liked The Devil Wears Prada, you'll enjoy this story of a young, Toronto woman starting out in her first professional career in cosmetics.
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When Veronica graduated with an MBA and dreams of saving the world, she never knew she would end up a corporate slave to the lipstick gods, in love with her playboy boss and in need of a gay best friend to make her feel fabulous. Straight out of school, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, Veronica has her heart set on an honourable job, such as saving starving children. Instead, she accepts a job at Gisele, a global cosmetic empire that seems to mock her every value. Veronica struggles to fit in until she meets Stevie, a gay co-worker, who immediately assumes the role of fashion counsellor and fabulousness.

Under Stevie’s mentorship, Veronica flourishes as a vixen and marketing peon. But for Veronica to truly succeed at Gisele and seduce her boss, she must bequeath her soul to the makeup gods and sacrifice her friends in a ritual known as corporate brainwash. How far does Veronica go before she realizes she is losing everything she once valued, including herself? [close]

[close] Discover new literary voices from the Midwest!

Featuring fiction from John Biggs, William Blomstedt, Ken Brosky, Jennifer M. Colatosti, Matthew Fogarty, Hazel Foster, Matthew Guerruckey, Jason Marc Harris, Brandon Hobson, Joe Kapitan, Molly Laich, Justin Machnik, Angela Palm, John Scaggs, Sarah Elizabeth Schantz, Sacha Siskonen, Carol Smallwood, Richard Thomas, and Matt Young. Poetry from Thomas Cannon, Chris Crabtree, Jim Davis, Sadie Ducet, David Greenspan, Nathaniel Lee Hansen, Ryan Havely, Dale Patterson, Isaac Miller, Richard Newman, Lindy Obach, Andrew Ruzkowski, Kate E. Schultz, Sarah Snook, Helen Spica, Marydale Stewart, Taylor Supplee, Kerry Trautman, David Vodolazkiy, and Courtney Huse Wica.

Midwestern Gothic (ISSN 2159-8827) is a quarterly print literary journal out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, dedicated to featuring work about or inspired by the Midwest, by writers who live or have lived here. Midwestern Gothic aims to collect the very best in Midwestern fiction writing in a way that has never been done before, cataloging the oeuvre of an often-overlooked region of the United States ripe with its own mythologies and tall tales. [close]

[close] Based on the life of the great short-story writer Raymond Carver, particularly his last ten, postalcoholic years, Scissors is that rare thing, a funny, compassionate, and convincing portrayal of the creative life: its compulsions, its rewards, its frustrations, its affinities with tragedy. [close]