Geist 95, Winter, 2014. Punk, politics and feminism by Connie Kuhns; winners of the Tobacco Lit Writing Contest; David Albahari's child-free neighbourhood; the Arctic photography of Bogdan Luca; Stephen Osborne on dog walkers, writing guides and the THE building.
Also in Geist 95:
Diana Fitzgerald Bryden smells pungent success at the pre-Giller Party
Eve Corbel draws cooks who over-identify with their equipment
31 nanas in one photograph
New fiction from Brad Yung
Stephen Henighan on hounders, gropers and bullies on campus
A poem in which Susan Telfer's father is not drunk
Mary Schendlinger on being trapped in a SkyTrain car
A glimpse into prohibition-era Canada with Dan Francis
George Webber: Trans Canada Porn
PLUS dozens of reviews, letters and miscellany from around the world.
FEATURES
Michael Podgurney, "Rings"
Connie Kuhns, "Strange Women"
Michal Kozlowski, "Arctic Breach"
Brad Yung, "Lessons I'm Going to Teach My Kids Too Late"
Tobacco Lit Contest Winners
NOTES & DISPATCHES
Stephen Osborne, "Shaggy Dog Tales"
Diana Fitzgerald Bryden, "Giller Filler"
Eve Corbel, "Cooks Who Over-Identify with Their Equipment"
Mary Schendlinger, "Meanwhile, in 1666"
Susan Telfer, "Walking in Snow"
FINDINGS
Biliana Velkova, "Arts and Crafts"
Dan Francis, "Rum Row"
Arleen Paré, "Soldier Boys"
Jordan Abel, "Warpath"
David Albahari, "Children Not Prohibited"
Carin Makuz, "Guide to Better Cooking"
Eric Uhlich, "When the Bough Breaks"
Diane Schoemperlen, "Under the Influence"
Linda Griffiths, "Royal Pillow Talk"
Kate Hargreaves, "Live Better"
Steview Howell, "Barriers"
Lee Maracle, "Name of the Father"
Jane Munro, "Apostrophe"
Georgia Webber, "Loop Without End"
COLUMNS
"Campus Confidential" by Stephen Henighan, Afterlife of Culture
"Monsters" by Alberto Manguel, City of Words
"Park in Progress" by Daniel Francis, National Dreams
IN CAMERA
George Webber, "Trans Canada Adult"
CAUGHT MAPPING
Melissa Edwards, "Beach Blanket Pingo: The Canadian Map of Fun in the Midnight Sun"
ENDNOTES: Featuring reviews of
Toronto: Biography of a City by Allan Levine
Breakfast with Lucian by Geordie Greig
It's Me O Lord: The Autobiography of Rockwell Kent by Rockwell Kent
There Can Never Be Enough by David Arnason
Two-Letter Words by Stephin Merritt
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
The Modern World by Cassie Beecham
The Secret Life of Fission by Paul Carlucci
All Else is Folly by Peregrine Acland
The Stray Bullet: William S. Burroughs in Mexico by Jorge Garcia Robles, translated by Daniel C. Schechter
Peter Orlovsky: A Life in Words by Peter Orlovsky
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
The Douglas Notebooks by Christine Eddie
Only Lovers Left Alive by Jim Jarmusch
And the GEIST CRYPTIC CROSSWORD!