Also in Geist 96:

Kodaking the bomb

Poetic investigations into psychogeographies by Stephen Brown

Last Supper in East Vancouver by Dina Goldstein

German sentence diagrams

Bruce Serafin on Henry Drummond and Leetle Bateese

Readers choice winner of the Tobacco Lit Writing Contest

Dan Francis on John Ralston Saul, Glen Sean Coulthard and the new Canadian narrative

Lethbians, Lethies and Bridgites

Questionable doctor reviews by Elaine McCluskey

Bill Howell on getting your lovely red Alero T-boned by a guy in a white Mazda

Jeff Schucard and one of the great piss-ups of all time

Dirt and debris in Lethbridge by Eric Dyck

Stephen Henighan on skiing, Canadianness and the imitation of customs

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Table of Contents

FEATURES

John O'Brian, "Blast Photography"

Joel William Vaughan, "Scrawled on the Back of my Mad Father's Will"

Sara Cassidy, "Shallow in the A Section"

Stephen Brown, "Inner Limits"

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NOTES & DISPATCHES

Stephen Osborne, "Insurgency"

Jeff Shucard, "Piss-up"

Lindsay Diehl, "Honolulu"

Bill Howell, "Failure to Yield"

Marko Sijan, "Peace on Earth"

Miriam Libicki, "Drawn Life"

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FINDINGS

Dina Goldstein, "Last Supper, East Vancouver"

Bruce Serafin, "Leetle Bateese"

Gary Baldwin, Craig Conley, Hugh Thomas, "Franzlations"

Ondjaki, "Granma Nineteen"

Eric Dyck, from "Slaugherhouse Slough"

G.P. Lainsbury, "The Psychopathology of (Northern) College Life"

Anne Carson, "Short Talk on Housing"

Elaine McCluskey, "Rating Dr. Chestnut"

Jamie Sharpe, "Greensborough"

Emily Horne and Joey Comeau, from "A Softer World"

Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk, "Examinations"

Rob Kovitz, "Plan Your Getaway"

Sun Belt, "Testimony"

Claire Caldwell, "Bear Safety"

Al Neil, "Origins"

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COLUMNS

"Cross-Canada Snow" by Stephen Henighan, Afterlife of Culture

"Fist" by Alberto Manguel, City of Words

"Time for a Rewrite" by Daniel Francis, National Dreams

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IN CAMERA

by Emiko Morita

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CAUGHT MAPPING

Cassia Streb, "Paints and Stains: The Canadian Tire Paint Chip Map of Canada"

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ENDNOTES: Featuring reviews of

Local Customs by Audrey Thomas

Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers, collected by Janet Malcolm

#GIRLBOSS by Sofia Amoruso

When Everything Feels Like the Movies by Raziel Reid

That Went by Fast: My First Hundred Years by Frank White

Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey

We Are Pirates by Daniel Handler

Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives by Nia King

Granma Nineteen and the Soviet's Secret by Ondjaki

Moomin: The Deluxe Anniversary Edition and The Woman Who Borrowed Memories by Tove Jansson

Reading Like A Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose

Stardust by Bruce Serafin

Dans un mois, dans un an by Françoise Sagan

The Log's Log and Location Shack by Carole Itter 

Opening Doors in Vancouver's East End: Strathcona, edited by Carole Itter and Daphne Marlatt

Birthday by Carole Itter and Gerry Gilbert

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And the GEIST CRYPTIC CROSSWORD!

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