Lemurian Congress

Robert Coover had dabbled with "trapped in a genre" stories before, but "Ghost Town" (1998) was the first time he exten...

If "Briar Rose" (1996) appeared in a collection of short stories, I would probably appreciate it more. There is something about a...

Robert Coover's novels tend to come in one of two formats: either they're teeny-tiny books with huge text and wide margins (glorifi...

"Pinocchio in Venice" (1991) was the first Robert Coover novel I read. Having just finished it now for the third time -- and in t...

For the past six weeks or so I have been engaged in a Cooverthon...that is, I've been re-reading all of Robert Coover's books* in ...

At the end of the 1948 movie " The Snake Pit ," our newly-sane heroine tells her heroic doctor that she knows she has recovered he...

After a year in University I realized that I needed to get a job. Fortunately I'd fallen in with the members of industrial/noise band ...

I rarely throw down a book in disgust, but after twenty pages of "You Had To Be There" by Robert Collins I feel like tossing it in...

Every weekday we'd drive to the parking lot of the obscure company and stand on the pvement, eating take-out breakfasts and making awkwa...

The rumours are true: Mike Meyers can do no wrong! This is not because he hasn't tried. Before he starts working on any movie he wonders...

After I finished high school, I had an entire summer to figure out what I wanted to do in University. Little did I know that it would take a...

After leaving The Grey Yonder , some friends and I moved into The Radiator House. This was just across the street and much nicer than the pr...

I first heard Sky Cries Mary when their "Return to the Inner Experience" album appeared at CKMS. Its eye-catching cover, odd song...

I love reading yearbooks. They're curious anthropological documents that capture certain elements of a subculture, allowing some degree ...

I have a new ritual which keeps me smiling on Monday mornings: when I go to work that day I allow myself to buy ONE album off iTunes. I migh...

I have long been enchanted by this cover of "Across the Universe." It is somehow -- inexplicably -- both heart-wrenchingly beautif...

One of my first jobs was as a part-time clerk at "Sounds Music Plus," a record store in New Hamburg. Besides sitting around waitin...