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  1. Archetype: The Fiction Writer's Guide to Psychology
    Resource Type: Website
    Maybe your character needs psychotherapy and you're wondering what goes on behind the closed doors of the therapist's office. Maybe you need to know how to make the psychologist in your fiction sound like a real shrink. Or maybe you're just looking for the psychology behind a really great villain, or wish you could ask a real clinician your psychology questions.
  2. Book of the Short Story
    Resource Type: Book
  3. Buy Banned Books
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    The article takes a look at 'banned books' in the social media era, where the 'imagination police' dominate and a form of 'fictional aparteid' is taking place, and moreover why we have a duty to buy them.
  4. The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    Broad surveys of fiction, drama, and poetry, Aboriginal writings, Francophone writings, autobiography, literary criticism, writing by women, urban writing, nature writing, travel writing, and short fiction.
  5. Canadian Mystery Stories
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  6. The Duke
    Resource Type: Book
    Banned for seven years by the Argentinian military government, this novel follows a small-time ex-prizefighter called the Duke, who endures events powerfully reflecting the brutality and excesses of his time. Medina is the author of six other novels also once banned but now being republished in Argentina.
  7. Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection
    Resource Type: Book
  8. The Eye of the Child
    Resource Type: Book
    A six-year-old gypsy girl is abandoned on the outskirts of 'The Sprawl,' finds her way to a colony on a garbage dump called 'Mount Heapmore,' and eventually learns that she can speak 'bird.' Through her communion with the natural world, she begins to understand the terrible price the earth and its inhabitants are paying for the exploitation of the ecological order.
  9. Fame & Fortune Online
    Resource Type: Website
    Comprehensive listing of awards available to Canadian journalists.
  10. The Fatal Woman
    Three Tales

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    The figure of the femme fatale - seductive, cruel, irresistible - dominates these three novellas. In The black helmet the fatal woman is disguised as a governess whose disciplinary force and ridged bathing cap entice a passive young dreamer to his awakening and apotheosis. In The Fulfilled Destiny of Electra two fatal women, a mother and daughter bound by passion to the same lover, slowly destroy the body and soul of their man. Lust in Action glances at the future: here, women rule the world, lesbian love is the norm, and imprisoned boys must rebel to prove their manhood only to meet nemesis in the beautiful Marian Hope, female detective extraordinaire.
  11. Feminism's March from Nation to Home - interview
    Against The Current vol. 163

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Johanna Brenner interviews Ninotchka Rosca.
  12. Fiction v nonfiction - English literature's made-up divide
    Fiction v non: an English affliction?

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Some cultures do not distinguish between fiction and nonfiction - and instead talk of 'stories'. Is that a barrier to English-language writers and publishers? Or should they just learn to enjoy telling stories?
  13. 50 Great Short Stories
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1952
  14. Good Fiction Guide
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
  15. Imagined Nations
    Reflections on Media in Canadian Fiction

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    A basic look at the effects different forms of media have had on Canadian novels and film adaptations and cyberspace, and how these affect the sense of time and space and national identities.
  16. Is 'urban fiction' defined by its subject – or the skin colour of its author?
    Black writers see 'urban fiction' as ghettoising their work.

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Why are black authors of urban fiction treated differently from white novelists of the same material? Carlene Thomas-Bailey speaks to self-published black authors in the US who complain of 'seg-book-gation'
  17. Lives of Short Duration
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    The Terris are engaging people, but they are a family in collapse. Alcoholism, drugs, and loveless sex have reduced them to a petty and wasted bunch. Worse, they typify aspects of the larger community besieged by financial woes and by creeping economic and cultural Americanization.

    What David Adams Richards accomplishes is no mean feat: his characters are at times vicious, sleazy, and even outright dim, yet he manages to entitle them to the interest and sympathy of the reader.
  18. London, Jack - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Jack London (1876-1916).
  19. The Long Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
  20. Mirror, Mask and Shadow
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
  21. The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories
    Resource Type: Book
    The authors provide introductions to 34 tales that trace the evolution of crime fiction in the United States.
  22. Radical Perspectives in the Arts
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    An anthology of Marxist literary and cultural criticism.
  23. The Reader's Companion to the Twentieth-Century Novel
    Resource Type: Book
    A succinct synopsis of each novel's plot, characters, and action is given along with an assessment of the book's literary significance.
  24. Rootless but Green are the Boulevard Trees
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    A play about growing up Indian - and Canadian - in Winnipeg. A family from Madras copes with a dual identity.
  25. Science fiction is more than just Buck Rogers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1979
    Like most modern literature, science fiction is concerned with the alienated human condition, yet it articulates this concern in a distinct manner, as a form of literature concerned with the implications of the problems engendered by industrial society.
  26. The Secret Life of Saeed
    The Pessoptimist

    Resource Type: Book
    A hilarious portrayal of Saeed, a Palestinian turned Israeli informer. Combining fact, fantasy, tragedy, and comedy, the luckless adventures of Saeed reveal the absurdities of the positions taken by Israelis, Palestinians, and Arabs.
  27. The Secret Museum
    Pornography in Modern Culture

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Kendrick looks at the idea of pornography since the word was coined a century and a half ago, concentrating less on the books and pictures that have instigated battles over "pornography" than on what people thought and felt about them.
  28. The Shadow by the Door
    Resource Type: Book
    An Argentinian guerilla recalls the struggle and his dead comrades. Now in exile, he tries to keep his sanity by escaping from the unbearable present through his memories of an adolescent summer in the country and a love affair crushed beneath the weight of political events.

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