Also in Geist 97:

Certain Embarrassing Questions from Rob Kovitz

David Albahari at the Banff Centre

The inside scoop on What Wave by Michal Kozlowski

Stephen Henighan on the social complications of immigration

Alberto Manguel presents the Armenian question

A list of things your poem should have from Kathryn Mockler

Eve Corbel on why old women cry at weddings

Milton Acorn Googling his own work

David Francis on Canada's history of war resistance

Letters to Manitora, Canada

Western Canada photography by Thomas Gardiner

Police scanner tweets from @ScanBC

Mini Aodla Freeman living life among the qallunaat

Selections of Chinese export paintings

and more!

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Table of Contents

FEATURES

The Syrup Trap: Canada's favourite humour magazine

Ethan Eisenberg, "Operation Pride"

Cary Fagan, "My Father's Picasso"

Winners of the 11th Annual Postcard Story Contest

Evelyn Lau, "Don't Look Down"

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NOTES & DISPATCHES

Michal Kozlowski, "Publishing Life"

Roni Simunovic, "Literary Festival Field Guide"

Vincent Pagé, "Milton Acorn Googles His Own Work"

Eve Corbel, "Old Women Cry at Weddings"

Susan Mockler, "Hey, Sexy"

Rob Kovitz, "Certain Embarrassing Questions"

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FINDINGS

Thomas Gardiner, images from Western Canada

David Albahari, "The Banff Way"

Wilson MacDonald, "Author Tour, 1923"

Peter Culley, "Cruel Summer"

Mini Aodla Freeman, "Southern Life"

Ludwig Zeller, "Coming to the End of the Blind Knot"

Nina Bunjevac, "Letters to Manitora"

Duncan Mercredi, "Neon Moon"

Barry Till, "Snapshot Art"

@ScanBC, "Drunk, Armed With Guitar"

Kathryn Mockler, "Your Poem Should Have Four Legs"

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COLUMNS

"Immigrants From Nowhere" by Stephen Henighan, Afterlife of Culture

"The Armenian Question" by Alberto Manguel, City of Words

"Acts of Resistance" by Daniel Francis, National Dreams

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IN CAMERA

by Mandelbrot

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CAUGHT MAPPING

Jennesia Pedri, "Badlands: The Terrible Map of Canada"

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ENDNOTES: Featuring reviews of

Kitten Clone by Douglas Coupland

Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids compiled and edited by Meghan Daum

Road Rocks Ontario by Nick Eyles

The April 2015 issue of CNQ: Canadian Notes & Queries

"What Was Canadian Literature?", a post at partisanmagazine.com

Devil in Deerskins: My Life with Grey Owl by Anahareo

Kuessipan by Naomi Fontaine

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis and Brooke Allen

An Air Canada rouge flight from Halifax to Calgary

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And the GEIST CRYPTIC CROSSWORD!

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