Also in Geist 100:

Michał Kozłowski searches for fractal life and fractal literature

The amazing displacement activities of writers

A tarot card reading for John Franklin, 1841

Mandelbrot and the Kathmandu Café in multiple dimensions

Cape Bretonisms

Sarah Pollard hangs out and writes where Mavis Gallant hung out and wrote

Stephen Henighan on the treason of the librarians

Suzanne Buffam's First World Problems from A to Z

The Unparalleled Imagination of a Bush Camp Nickname

The announcement of a brand new Geist writing contest

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Table of Contents

FEATURES

Lily Gontard & Mark Kelly, "The Vanishing Roadhouse"

Stephen Smith, "Sir John's Lost Diaries"

Terra Poirier, "Erasure"

Stephen Heighton, "The Waking Comes Late"

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NOTES & DISPATCHES

Michał Kozłowski, "Fractal Life"

Nicola Winstanley, "Wall Spirits"

Suzanne Buffam, "First World Problems A to Z"

Mandelbrot, "Zero Degree Dining"

Sarah Pollard, "Mavis in Montreal"

Ven Begamudré, "Fading Committee"

Antoine Dion-Ortega, "South Side Malartic"

Eve Corbel, "Amazing Displacement Activities of Writers"

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FINDINGS

Images from Sleeping Warrior by Shelley Niro

Alberto Manguel, "Rough Laborious Words"

Frances Peck, "Cape Bretonisms"

Gillian Wigmore, "Vanderhoof Girls"

Antonine Maillet, "Not Really French"

Jane Eaton Hamilton, "Virgin #479"

Jessica Tremblay, "Haiku How-To"

Jim Westergard, "Against the Grain"

Claudia Casper, "Threat Multiplier"

CanLit Premise Generator, "Drunk Family Dog Trip"

Leanne Simpson, "Please Do Not Flaunt Your Rights"

Janet Rogers, "The Sexual Revolution Will Be Televised"

Marvin Francis, "The Unparalleled Imagination of a Bush Camp Nickname"

COLUMNS

"Because a Lot of Questions are Complex" by Rob Kovitz, FAQ

"Treason of the Librarians" by Stephen Henighan, Afterlife of Culture

"Miquel Barceló Restores Our Sight" by Alberto Manguel, City of Words

"Remembering The Ward" by Daniel Francis, National Dreams

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IN CAMERA

"Post-Tohoku," AnnMarie MacKinnon

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CAUGHT MAPPING

Cassia Streb, "Eat Your Greens: The Fruit and Vegetable Map of Canada"

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ENDNOTES: Featuring reviews of

Paris Nocturne by Patrick Modiano

Spreading Time by Earle Birney

The United States of Wind: A Travelogue by Daniel Canty, translated by Oana Avasilichioaei

The Silk Road: Taking the Bus to Pakistan by Bill Porter

Finding Them Gone: Visiting China's Poets of the Past by Bill Porter

Yellow River Odyssey by Bill Porter

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

Canada's ability to stand in for the US in films

The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel

M Train by Patty Smith

My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem

Sex for Dummies by Ruth K. Westheimer

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And the GEIST CRYPTIC CROSSWORD!

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