The Joyful Child. Illustrated by Melanie Boyle to highlight its focus on a father and his young son, and the companionship they develop at home in Toronto and on the road. Printed with care at Gaspereau Press. http://www.gaspereau.com/
Lola by Night. A noir set in Vancouver’s eastern precincts and with a view of the ocean from the West End’s Sylvia Hotel. Cary Fagan and Bernard Kelly at paperplates books made it look great. Cover art by Brian Kipping.
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“Eccentric, imaginative, and darkly funny.” - The Forward
Sex, Skyscrapers, and Standard Yiddish. Stories of displacement, travel, far-flung locales, past and present. Louis Prima’s here, and Milt Schmidt, alongside Norman Flax and Lola’s premiere appearance. Winner of the Ontario Arts Council K.M. Hunter Emerging Artist Award.
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“Absurdly gorgeous fictional delights.” - Toronto Star
Published by Red Deer Press in 1991. Winner of the Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism New Fiction Award. Café des Westens is a rare western Canadian Jewish novel. Set in Calgary, it depicts how the city boomed, tore itself down and faced the outcome of these changes. Polish family history lurks here as it does in later work.
‘‘Marvellous evocations of place and season that make me stop, go back and savour again.’’ -Monica Hughes
‘‘A novel of atmosphere; inward looking, intelligent, pensive.’’ -Robert Weaver
“My Father and the Sky.” My first published story, in the little magazine West Coast Review, dedicated in all its 1980s Vancouver idealism to writing, music and photography.
“Glendale, North of Alhambra, East of Burbank,” in Ruth Panofsky’s The New Spice Box: Contemporary Jewish Writing.
“The Dulcimer Girl,” in Polish(ed) Poland Rooted in Canadian Fiction. Edited by Kasia Jaronczyk and Małgorzata Nowaczyk.