How I (Finally) Met Leonard Cohen

Ann Diamond

Published in Geist #72 as Stranger Song

Empires of Film

Leading Men

Brad Cran

Leading Men” is taken from a work-in-progress, Cinéma-Verité and the Collected Works of Ronald Reagan: A History of Propaganda in Motion Pictures.

Notes on the Wedding

M.A.C. Farrant

He looked like Dennis Hopper in Easy Rider

An Ounce of Civet

Bill MacDonald

Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary,
To sweeten my imagination; here’s money for thee.
Shakespeare, King Lear

Media Studies

Norbert Ruebsaat

These stories and conversations took place in a Media and Communications Studies class at a Canadian college. Students come to the college from many countries, in the hope of enrolling eventually in a North American university.

How We Imagine Ourselves

From a talk given at the second Geist Evening of Dinner and Diversion in February 1994.

The Real Woman

Bart Campbell

From The Door Is Open: Memoir of a Soup Kitchen Volunteer, published by Anvil Press in 2001.

The Last Grain Elevator in Regina

David Collier

When it comes to preserving Saskatchewan history, can the pen be mightier than the backhoe?

Burma Media Event

Norbert Ruebsaat

This story took place in a Media and Communications Studies class at a Canadian college. Students come to the college from many countries, in the hope of enrolling eventually in a North American university.