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Raise a little hell: An evening of kick ass literature

Oct 30 2010 - 7:00pm
Oct 30 2010 - 9:00pm

Location

Aqua Books
274 Garry Street
Winnipeg, MB R3C 1H3
Canada
Phone: 204 943-7555
49° 53' 35.3328" N, 97° 8' 25.1232" W

Writers David Annandale and Michael Van Rooy, with music by Rockwood

David Annandale was born in Winnipeg and has lived in Edmonton, Charlottetown, and Paris. He did his MA on the Marquis de Sade at the University of Manitoba and a PhD on horror fiction and film at the University of Alberta. Currently, he teaches English and film at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg where he lives with his wife and family.

Michael Van Rooy writes for documentaries, magazines, newspapers, and the Internet. Michael won the 2006 Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book, and the 2009 John Hirsh Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer. Born in Kamloops, BC, he grew up in Winnipeg, where he now lives with his wife and three children.

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fiction

Poetics of dissent

The Fourth Canvas

by Rana Bose
(TSAR Publications,
2008;
$20.95)

While reading a thriller, I anticipate -- and usually get -- a twisty, testosterone-ridden plot. If I'm lucky, there's a strong female character; really lucky, a good sex scene. What I don't expect: a theory of socio-political hegemony centered around the idea of dissent. But Rana Bose's The Fourth Canvas is a novel of ideas as much as a thriller, with enough red herrings to make Agatha Christie proud, and enough progressive ideas to satisfy the most ardent activist.

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