REVIEWS AND PRESS

Because things change so quickly on the Internet, some links might be out of date. Hopefully not, but you've been warned...

EPW in general

• A poppy profile in the New Brunswick alt-weekly, Here.
• Taddle Creek magazine, an excellent Toronto lit mag, published the most detailed profile ever written (five pages long!).
• A fun, comics-oriented profile in Sequential Tart, by Edmonton writer Suzette Chan.
• The Halifax Herald ran this unbelievably flattering profile written by Young People's Press writer Samantha Mansfield.
• Vancouver's Doretta Lau did this interview for the Discorder way back in May, 2002.
• TVOntario's book show Imprint produced a segment (note: the video clip is large; you need RealPlayer to watch it).
• Zine afficionado Ann Sterzinger wrote a longish profile for the Chicago Reader in May 2003. (Online in their archive but you have to pay $1.95.)
• A 2002 interview published in the online Danforth Review.

iron-on constellations

• Poet and critic George Elliott Clarke compares the poems in IOC to Kathy Acker's writing in the Halifax Chronicle Herald.
• Author/journo R.M. Vaughan's profile The Bard of Parkdale ran in the National Post.
• A very positive review in Shameless magazine.
• Another flattering review in Matrix magazine.
• This Magazine's Jan/Feb 2006 issue included a review from : "a collection of sweet, sometimes stark poems."
• Rabble.ca called it The Everygirl's Almanac, "glittery poetry of the everyday."

a girl like sugar

• The review in Fashion18, a teen mag, asks Want to know what really goes on in Toronto's indie scene?.
• Blog Critics weighed in with this humorous review.
• Reviewed by fantasy writer Charles de Lint in Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine in his column "Books to Look For."
• Highly recommended in Toronto's Taddle Creek lit mag.
• Shameless magazine's feminist girl-friendly review. (Saved as a pdf.)
• Edmonton's See Magazine ran this fun Sugary interview, by Brett Lambert.
• An interestingly descriptive review by the Globe and Mail's first fiction reviewer, Jim Bartley. He called the book "wonderfully explicit" and "quietly redemptive."
• The Winnipeg Free Press's Cheryl Binning's review was titled: "First novel fresh addition to chick-lit world." You can access the article through their archive, but you have to pay.
• Grant MacEwan College's student paper published a review and, later, an interview, both by Carolyn Nikodym. (You have to download the entire issue, and scan to the arts section.)
• Vancouver's Georgia Straight made it a cute little book choice of the week.
• The University of Winnipeg's newspaper, The Uniter, ran an interview about Sugar.
• Popmatters.com published a lengthy review of Sugar that positions it within pop culture, by Ottawa writer Zachary Houle.
• An ambivalent Quill & Quire review by Cheryl Taylor.
• Journo Tyson Kaban wrote an incredible article for the University of Alberta's paper, Gateway.
• Young People's Press suggested that people get high on Sugar.

Girls Who Bite Back

• A Toronto Star review titled Chicks with Attitude, in which the ladies get to do the dirty deeds for a change, by Christine Sisimondi.
• A review in Sequential Tart, a webzine about/for women in comics.
• A perceptive review in the Globe and Mail by cultural critic Deirdre Hanna, and a nod in Globe Books section article by writer Andrew Kaufman on the superhero phenom.
• Sylvie Hill wrote a review for the Ottawa Xpress and a letter that ran in the Ottawa Citizen
• James Schellenberg of The Cultural Gutter wrote a highly detailed review for Challenging Destinies.
• NOW Magazine ran what will quite possibly be the best review ever written of GWBB, by local culture maven Wendy Banks.
• Here's a interesting review by John Burns of the Georgia Straight, Vancouver's independent weekly.
• Three Girls contributors were interviewed by the Ottawa Citizen about the new face of third-wave feminism.
• Lisa Smolkin's lovely and moving Miniature Coloured Marshmallows has been made into a feature story for CBC Radio 3's web magazine.
• Lisa Rundle's column on the final feminist frontier (fearlessness) in Herizons magazine.
• Melissa Leong's article on butt-kicking babes in the Toronto Star.
• Lots more links to GWBB press on the website.

Better to Have Loved

• Charlie Anders' review in the SF Bay Guardian's literary supplement.
• Paul Di Filippo's review in Asimov's Science Fiction.
• Lamdba Sci-Fi's newsletter (a pdf file) compares it to a recent biography of Ray Bradbury.
• Jean Pettigrew's review in Solaris (en français).
• Carol Cooper's review in the Village Voice.
• Spider Robinson wrote an incredible review in the Globe and Mail.
• John Clute's review in Science Fiction Weekly.
• Asta Sinusas' review on SFRevu.com
• More links to BtHL press on the Judith Merril website.

Kiss Machine

• Numerous Broken Pencil reviews, including the cars and religion issue, the love and stars issue, and the sex and condiments issue.
• Matrix mag reviews the disposable issue.
• Nicole Cohen wrote about the mag for the Toronto Star.
• Toronto Star art columnist Peter Goddard wrote a lovely piece about how to enjoy art in the heat of summer.
• EYE Weekly highlighted our Inflatable Museum as "one of the most interesting new galleries -- virtual or otherwise."
• Talented writer Nichole McGill mentions Kiss Machine as being one of the few remaining "gritty" lit mags in Canada.
• A funny little piece written by a Ryerson student for the Eyeopener after visiting Kiss Machine's secret room at Canzine 2003.