Sunday’s father is dying of cancer and he wants to go back to his hometown of Malagash to die. The kids, Sunday and her little brother Simon, are school-aged, and so the whole family packs up for the north shore of Nova Scotia. It’s like summer vacation with the wonder of bucolic nature, except it’s […]
Joey Comeau
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That Bloody Joey Comeau
“One bloody thing after another” is something you might say during a hectic day at work, but in Joey Comeau’s newest novel it’s literal: coughed-up pieces of bloody, dead animals eaten by what was a human character. The co-creator of A Softer World launches his latest work, One Bloody Thing After Another, in Halifax today (Thursday, May 27 at Strange Adventures, 4-8pm, free)—-it’s a horror novel that saw Comeau pick up a bloodier pen than usual to create a grisly tale, while still keeping his funny, sexy and sweet writing style intact. It tells the story of an old
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Update: Joey Comeau withdrawn from $10,000 literary award
ED. UPDATE: Apparently ECW Press has voluntarily withdrawn Comeau’s Overqualified from the 2009 Danuta Gleed Literary Award for, well, being overqualified—the award is for first collections and Comeau’s self-published his collection of short stories It’s Too Late to Say I’m Sorry in 2007. ***Former Coast contributor (remember A Softer World?) Joey Comeau was shortlisted for […]