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Like so many makes me smile. He makes me top of the pie, though, is that she'd someday be happy" The Night In Question American wordsmiths these cry. I rip off his ideas when I he gets to be writer-in-resi- who had me grinnin' like a (Vintage) days, Wolff suffers from a bad write. But Wolff really likes dence at Syracuse University Cheshire, Gartner has ZSUZSI GARTNER case of "Carveritis." You know Carver. A lot. You know what I where all the fancy-pants, developed characters who All the Anxious Girls on the symptoms: the short sen­ mean. What's more, Wolff is pipe-smoking old boys tell I'm going to see on the bus, Earth tences, the understated empha- very, very male. A Vietnam vet­ him he's the best thing since at work, at the grocery (Kev Portner) eran, his stories are rife with Hemingway Sure, the cal­ store, everywhere. I might Three things in life are given: endings. Now, I shouldn't say iber of his writing is high and cry when I see them. I might this collection is certainly death, taxes, and the ongoing that this is necessarily smile. I don'l know. That, to worth purchasing, but it's battle for sexual supremacy unfavourable. I dig Carver He ters. His boys don't cry. And me, is the sign of someone time for the old boys to pull between males and females they don't get anxious. Despite who knows what the hell up their pants and realize Boys get all the cushy jobs. Girls the stereotypically American they're doing. , that the girls deserve some get bigger brains. The writing writing, however, there are Now, sure, people are lov­ accolades too. ibout two or three real gems in ing Zsuzsi to death around here. exempt from this rule. Short fic- this ollectio Girls like Zsuzsi Gartner But what about the rest of the the flick American Beauty the Owner of the coolest name this country? Will she get nominated seem to exemplify this point other night (unreal... no shit) side of Chinua Achebe, Gartner less plug) to buy this book. If for a Governor-General's Award rather well: the boys (Papa, and it seems like it could have is local, cool as snake-skin you've blinked an eye in our (when she should win)? Where Faulkner, etc) win all the fancy been written by Tobias Wolff boots in Surrey, and at the fair city at any time in the past was her name among the awards, while the girls (WeIry, The awkward moments, the lack beginning of a prolific career. year, you've undoubtedly heard Booker nominees? I'll be Erdrich, Oates) possess most of of a strong moral compass, the Gartner's first collection, All the of Zsuzsi's girls Anyone and damned if there's gonna be the talent Some of you macho fact that you want to cry at the Anxious Girls on Earth, is so everyone who's cool has raved another book this good in a knuckleheads out there may dis­ end; these things are written all good that I bought it after read­ about this book (except for the long, long while. So where's agree with me, but I'm going to over Wolff's book. ing the first story (which isn't pinhead in BC Book World who Zsuzsi's money and fame? Tobias Wolff can use his talent to prove myself and make you feel Now here's where I prove even one of the good ones) said it was good, but not as write about boys. At war, at like idiots (or maybe not, we'll my point: academic big-leagues while browsing in the book ; everyone says; fu play, wherever; I don't give a see). in the United Snakes drool all store. Now, I should point out him), ning thei rat's ass. My money's on Zsuzsi's Let's consider, first off, over Wolff like he's a smelly, hot that I usually get the books I 9 for book of the year. I'd girls. Every last anxious one of Yankee writer Tobias Wolff's slice of apple pie (what could review for free because asshole be hard-pressed to disagree. them. • collection of shorts, The Night be more American?). They stick publishers want me to say good Gartner's stories, unlike Wolff's, Vancouver # BASSIX THewoks sound a bit like Sonic When I think of EVAN Youth with a sense of humour, , SYMONS, I think of this poster I or the children of an SST band. saw for his thirtieth birthday Their tape has a number of party. His tongue was a few "Untitled Symphonies" that inches away from licking a sound quite good, but would 1 book. So when I received his sound a lot better if they were O new two song demo, I was three or four minutes shorter. The to take all the wah-wah expecting a good laugh. The first other tracks feature spoken word pedals in the universe song, "Mik-ayla," features a on Pop Art and the laws of and start a fire. There is nothing EQUIP- jnding, annoying crying physics, and there's one hard­ else that can ruin a song more core track about a hairy-legged quickly than that God-awful pedal. Okay, the Core can have the only wah-wah in the world just in case they have to perform <[email protected]> "Wendy Time." The NOXEMA <[email protected]> GIRLS, however, should take Hey, how about their pedal and shove it up 4%% COUPON? I have to admit that theirs.