Corey Redekop's Blog, page 29
September 22, 2014
You’re a strange person disguised as someone very ordinary.
A review of Eric McCormack’s Cloud (Penguin, 2014). I won’t lie to you [ED: oh, how could we ever lie to you, you sly devil, you]; the following is a slightly biased review. How could it not be? Aside from the acclaimed, amazing author Miriam Toews (whose monumental importance in the epic development of “Corey... WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE? →
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August 24, 2014
Wizards, detectives, evil: three book reviews, no waiting.
Sometimes I think every novel is wonderful. And then I realize it’s just that I choose good books. Or, more likely, that my brief foray into James Patterson a few years back has damaged me so badly I am now incapable of criticizing any book not written by a entitled hack who... WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE? →
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August 18, 2014
My Robin Williams story
First off: I never met Robin Williams. This isn’t that type of story, although I do wish I had that story as well. Williams did once visit Winnipeg for a time while filming the black comedy The Big White, a movie which, by all accounts, is not a high-water mark for either him... WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE? →
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August 16, 2014
The Subconscious Interview of Lavie Tidhar
The Subconscious Interview: Wherein your humble interviewer forgot to do research and asked the interviewee to interview himself, lest they share an awkward pause. Today, multi-genre author Lavie Tidhar (The Violent Century) takes up the challenge and reveals himself to suffer a split personality a la Gollum/Smeagol, or maybe that Superman vs. Clark Kent battle in Superman... WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE? →
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August 12, 2014
The Conscious Interview of Lavie Tidhar
In a very short time Lavie Tidhar has shown himself not only as a major talent, but an author unafraid to change genres and styles faster than some people change pants. I’ve never been less than amazed at his tales, and with the astonishing one-two donkeypunch of Osama (2011), and The Violent Century (2013) Tidhar has... WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE? →
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August 10, 2014
Reasons I’m looking forward to looking forward, i.e. books!
Because not every post can be a scintillating exploration of my/someone else’s psyche, here’s a list of upcoming books I await ever so anxiously. Like, kid waiting for Santa anxiously. The Fella Who Couldn’t Wait for Christmas anxiously. Scroll down for the context behind that strange sentence. Acceptance — Jeff Vandermeer After Annihilation and Authority, you’d better believe I... WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE? →
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August 2, 2014
Superheroes and secret agents: Lavie Tidhar’s “The Violent Century”
From the publisher: They’d never meant to be heroes. For seventy years they guarded the British Empire. Oblivion and Fogg, inseparable friends, bound together by a shared fate. Until one night in Berlin, in the aftermath of the Second World War, and a secret that tore them apart. But there... WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE? →
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July 21, 2014
Pheats of phrasing — “Sophrosyne”
Today, in Pheats of Phrasing: Marianne Apostolides’ Sophrosyne (BookThug Publishing, 2014). But no one listens anymore. Because all of us are busy in our infinite worlds. And our faces are grey from the glow of computers. Those hundreds of screens in Firestone Library, Level C. And the shadows are cutting deep on our... WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE? →
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Pheats of phrasing — “Sophroyne”
Today, in Pheats of Phrasing: Marianne Apostolides’ Sophroyne (BookThug Publishing, 2014). But no one listens anymore. Because all of us are busy in our infinite worlds. And our faces are grey from the glow of computers. Those hundreds of screens in Firestone Library, Level C. And the shadows are cutting deep... WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE? →
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July 15, 2014
Will I be in a new noir anthology? The question is “Moot.”
Ah, noir fiction. For me, there’s nothing more romantic than the image of the hardboiled author sitting down at his underwood, cup of raw java on one side and a shot of bourbon on the other, scratching at his three-day stubble and writing of corrupt private eyes battling crime and morality with a quick wit— WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE? →
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