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Spring 2020 Astonished Midstream… Contemporary Canadian Literature 30 years xxx NEW BOOKS Spring 2020 Astonished midstream… In 1990, Anvil Press wasn’t much more than a dream. A small, second floor, one-room office on Main Street for $350 a month, a couple of desks, two PC home computers (as they were called), a light table, waxer, coffee-maker, sign for the door, and suddenly we were (sort of) legit. The plan was to produce a lit-mag and a list of literary books (ambitious, yes, but we didn’t know any better!). Flyers were made, calls went out, manuscripts slowly began rolling in. Much reading ensued, potential acquisitions were argued over and finally settled on. Sketches, photographs, and cover mock-ups began to appear on the wall above the art table; books were designed — it was all DIY, right? We had no idea. A stroll down a blind alley. But we were young(ish), time was on our side. It was all very organic — fuelled by pots of coffee, day-old baked goods, cigarettes, whisky. Sheafs of paper were handed around — handfuls of poems, stories, novels-in-progress, rants, unclassifiable prose. Ideas, critiques, feedback, revisions, edits, draft upon draft, and finally books being laid out, manuscripts typeset, galleys proofed, corrected, saved as postscript files, and soon, haltingly, nervously sent off on disk by courier to printers across the country where the files would be ripped, output, shot to film, burned to plates, and onto a press that would set the whole process in stone — well, ink and paper. Then, some weeks later, a truck driver appeared in the office doorway, waybill dangling from his hand, announcing a delivery. Alertness. Silence. Excitement. Boxes carried up the flight of stairs and into the office, the X-Acto knife — carefully — to the tape, and the opening of the box to reveal its contents: books. Brand new, perfect looking books. And wafting from the cases, the unmistakable scent of a freshly printed book. A beautiful sight to behold. We all snapped one up, fingered the pages, admired the cover, raised it to our faces for a smell of the thing — all the work, all the steps, all the hours, now manifest before our eyes. We were hooked. And 30 years later we still are. — Brian Kaufman, Publisher We thank our cultural funders for their ongoing support: anvilpress.com 30 Fiction Anvil Press • Spring 2020 Czech Techno & Other Stories of Music by Mark Jarman From the author of 19 Knives and My White Planet comes a brilliant suite of stories built around music and travel. Whether it’s a band coming apart at the ruins of Pompeii, or tours through Napoli’s “volcanic dust and volcanic drugs” or a stroll through Victoria’s inner harbour while “gentle Tunisian techno” rides the breeze where the addicted are as weighted as Shakespear- ean characters — “lit rock and tiny chalice hidden under his shirt,get it all, draw every wisp of the wreath and heavy is the head that wears the crown, that lights the lighter.” Or it’s Steppenwolf or The Youngbloods drifting from a car radio as “an ambulance siren and lights fly our street … a flash- ing mime show of grief’s rocket.” Or, maybe they’re in Iceland, or Den- Also by this author: mark, “somewhere seriously lunar and attractive” spending wheelbarrows Salvage King, Ya! of cash the record execs didn’t give them. Or it’s the Viper Room, Sunset 978-1-895636-56-7 Boulevard, a bar in Butte, Montana, or Johnny Cash in Tijuana. The five stories that compriseCzech Techno are replete with the sizzle and spark we have come to expect in a Mark Jarman story, his herky-jerky emblematic style in full roar. And matters of the heart, the quest for love, is ever- present, weaving through these stories like a knife blade through sand. PRAISE FOR JARMAN’S WORK: “He writes with immediacy and verve, cutting out the unnecessary 96 pages to leave only the most vivid.” — Literary Review of Canada $18 CAN / $15 USA 7 x 10 “a brilliant work . a postmodern Canadian classic” — National Post Paperback “relentlessly, dizzyingly energetic” — Globe & Mail 978-1-77214-138-2 July 2020 AbOut thE Author: Stories Mark Anthony Jarman is the author of Knife Party at the Hotel Europa, My White Planet, 19 DepartmenT Of SMall WOrkS, #1 Knives, New Orleans Is Sinking, Dancing Nightly in the Tavern, and the travel book Ireland’s Eye. His novel, Salvage King Ya!, is on Amazon.ca’s Promotional Plans list of 50 Essential Canadian Books and is the » ARCs number one book on Amazon’s list of best hockey fiction. His work has been published » National review copy mailing widely in magazines and journals, including » Regional media relations The Walrus, Canadian Geographic, Brick, and » Fredericton book launch American Short Story. He has twice won the Maclean-Hunter Endowment Award as well as the Jack Hodgins Fiction » Reading events in Toronto, Montreal, Prize. Mark is a graduate of The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, a Yaddo fellow, Vancouver, Victoria and currently teaches at the University of New Brunswick. His Selected Stories is forthcoming from Biblioasis Press. » Social media campaign 1 30 Fiction Anvil Press • Spring 2020 ...and This Is the Cure by Annette Lapointe ... And This Is the Cure follows Allison Winter, public radio pop-culture journalist and former riot grrrrrl as she regains custody of her adolescent daughter, Hanna, following the murder of her ex-husband. She is unprepared to deal with either the demands of parenting or the fury of her ex-husband’s religiously conservative, grieving family, so she pulls up roots and moves Hanna from Winnipeg to Toronto. Allison’s sweet-natured partner, Eden, struggles to take on the day-to- day parenting while Allison resumes her career and avoids the chaos building at home. Despite all efforts, tensions swell and Hanna’s rage over her disrupted life eventually erupts in episodes of violence. Allison’s past histories return to haunt her present life. Her former bandmates want to reunite for a tour of Japan, and her sister demands Also by this author: help in caring for their difficult and aging mother. Allison decides it Stolen would be best for them all to return to Winnipeg, but this only sparks 978-1-927380-49-9 a whole new chapter of familial conflict, and precipitates a disastrous Whitetail Shooting Gallery event that forces Allison to confront her estranged relationship with 978-1-897535-98-1 her mother and come to terms with her own troubled past. You Are Not Needed Now ...And This Is the Cure is a novel about the weight of unresolved baggage 978-1-77214-093-4 — its pain and trauma — and working through the process of healing and moving on. 320 pages Praise for AnnettE LapointE: $22 CAN / $18 USA For Stolen: “The Saskatoon writer’s exceptional first novel should be taught in 6 x 9 high schools…” — The Globe & Mail Paperback 978-1-77214-151-1 For Whitetail Shooting Gallery: “Wintry, notably offbeat, written with an elegant August 2020 precision, and at times slyly funny … Lapointe’s beautiful treatment of poète Novel maudit subject matter never fails to impress.” — The Vancouver Sun AbOut thE Author: Promotional Plans Annette Lapointe is the author of two acclaimed novels, » ARCs Stolen and Whitetail Shooting Gallery, and the short story collection, You Are Not Needed Now. She has » National review copy mailing lived in rural Saskatchewan, Quebec City, St John’s, » Regional media relations Saskatoon, Winnipeg (where she earned her PhD), and South Korea. She now lives in Treaty 8 territory, on the » Winnipeg book launch traditional lands of the Beaver people, and teaches at » Reading events in Winnipeg, Grande Prairie Regional College. In her remaining free Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver time, she edits The Waggle magazine. » Social media campaign 2 30 Fiction – Translation Anvil Press • Spring 2020 The lily pad and the Spider by Claire Legendre Translated by David Homel You’re afraid of spiders, heights, sickness, and the way other people look at you. Afraid you’ll be betrayed, abandoned, and that the fortune-tell- er’s predictions will come true. You stop smoking, you avoid insects and medical advice, you stop going on stage, taking the airplane, falling in love, leaning over the balcony rail. You don’t take your driving test and you start reading novels from the end, as if putting on a chastity belt. You think you are well protected, you will never be caught off-guard, nothing will surprise you. Then a butterfly is discovered in your chest, and you feel its wings beating. It is too late to ignore the sensation. An autobiographical essay on fear, The Lily Pad and the Spider (Le nénuphar et l’araignée) explores the symptoms, sources, and genesis of anxiety, from the most intimate to the most ordinary kind. Using short chapters that are fragments of her life, Claire Legendre breaks down the psychological, physical, and social mechanisms associated with that emotion. Her style is lively, often funny, sometimes dark though never complacent, and the story traces a unique path between France and Canada and the Czech Republic, casting a defiant yet vulnerable gaze upon the world. The Lily Pad and the Spider (Le nénuphar at l’araignée) was a finalist for the 2016 Quebec Booksellers’ Prize in the Quebec novel category. Praise for The LiLy Pad and The SPider: 96 pages “With the same humour present in her previous books, Legendre observes and $18 CAN / $15 USA recounts her panics with the sharpness of an entomologist dissecting a beetle.” 5 x 8 — Le Devoir Paperback “Claire Legendre explores skillfully and sincerely the symptoms, the sources and 978-1-77214-152-8 the origins of anxiety, from the most ordinary to the most private.” June 2020 — Le journal de Montreal Novel/Translation AbOut thE Author: Claire Legendre was born in Nice in 1979.
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