Matrix 79 will be on the shelves soon, with reviews of:

The Real Made Up by Stephen Brockwell
The Notebook of Roses and Civilization by Nicole Brossard, translated by Robert Mazjels, Erin Moure
The Girls Who Saw Everything by Sean Dixon
At the Bottom of the Sky by Peter Dubé
Long Story Short: a novella and stories by Elyse Friedman
Ovenman by Jeff Parker
Anatomy of Keys by Stephen Price
More to Keep Us Warm by Jacob Scheier
Baby Remember My Name: An Anthology of New Queer Girl Writing Edited by Michelle Tea
Obon: The Festival of the Dead by Terry Watada
The Alphabet Game: a bpNichol reader edited by Darren Wershler-Henry and Lori Emerson

DC Books, 2007

Read by Vincent Tinguely

At The Bottom of the Sky is a collection of linked short stories. A main character in one tale might reappear as an incidental figure in the next, lending the overall impression of a loosely-knit community – vaguely artistic, decidedly intellectual – interacting against the background of an anonymous urban scene. (more…)