Sweet Betsy from Pike is Stan Rogal's first book of poetry. "It's as though Stan Rogal had snuck up on a whole regiment of stock cultural myths and assumption, armed only with folksong, imaginative muscle, abundant mother wist, and a wicket talent for subversive wordplay: it's the surprise that enlivens; the trickster's art." - Don McKay

Sweet Betsy from Pike

Literature & Fiction

Rogal, Stan

Poetry

Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd.

In Search of the Emerald City

Seraphim Editions

<p>This film noir novel begins with the Chilean government wanting to celebrate the life and work of the supposedly deceased Roberto Bolaño until they get an anonymous tip that he may still be alive and lurking. Afraid that he’ll show up and ruin their celebration — he never agreed with the politics, and he frowned on the literature being lauded in Chile; in fact, he found acceptance and fame after he moved to Spain — they ask the local police authorities to make sure he’s actually dead.</p>

Investigation into the Death of Roberto Bolaño

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Insomniac Pr

Darkness at the Edge of Town (195) (Essential Prose Series)

Romance

Guernica Editions

As Good As Dead is a cautionary tale about an unknown writer "living in the bowels of anonymity" who suddenly hits it big with a novel-turned-movie deal. On his quick trip to fame, Vic stops along the way to comment on celebrity, marketing machines, the notion of banging out an overnight success on one's typewriter, and the act of becoming a legend. Wherever big bucks are involved, there will be a call to compromise or a pact with the devil: one pill makes you smaller, one pill makes you tall. Vic has his initial fifteen minutes (or seconds) of rubbing shoulders with the stars as he completes a cross-border tour from Hollywood, to Oprah, to a lavish party at the Playboy Mansion--before he takes the inevitable fall down the rabbit hole and is forced to decide between his integrity and belief systems, and his newfound fortune and fame. At its most basic, the novel is about language: all meaningful attempts to communicate end in failure and/or comic tragedy due to the limits of language. The novel is also written as a roman à clef in good humour--many of the characters are recognizable within the Toronto writing community. Rogal couples his dramatic wit with an accelerated steam-of-consciousness style in his fifteenth book and third novel.

As Good As Dead

Literary

Pedlar Pr

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