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USEREVIEW 135: Symptoms of Acute Excellence

CAROUSEL — New Patient Evaluation Referring Provider: NeWest Press Patient Name: I (Athena)Parent/Guardian: Ruth DyckFehderauDate of Birth: April 2023Weight (in pages): 352Height (in ISBN-13): 978-1-77439-068-2 Attending Physician: Emily Woodworth ASSESSMENT I (Athena) presents with symptoms of acute excellence. Patient is well-composed, making perfect use of voice, found-form composition and sentence-level beauty, with just enough suspense to exceed standard expectations of momentum for a patient of 352 pages. Examination of subcutaneous layers reveals use of unreliable

USEREVIEW 134 (Capsule): Jerry Lewis Told Me I Was Going to Die

Matthew Del PapaJerry Lewis Told Me I Was Going to Die (Latitude 46 Press, 2023)ISBN 978-1-98898-962-4 | 200 pp | $22.95 CAD | BUY Here #CAROUSELreviews#USEREVIEWEDNESDAY Matthew Del Papa’s debut essay collection from Latitude 46 Press, Jerry Lewis Told Me I Was Going To Die, is filled with dark humour and needed perspective on living with disability. This collection builds momentum through brief pieces that deal with life and disability, covering Del Papa’s experience with

USEREVIEW 133 (Capsule): Hold Your Tongue

Matthew TétreaultHold Your Tongue (NeWest Press, 2023)ISBN 978-1-77439-071-9 | 270 pp | $22.95 CAD/ $17.95 USD | BUY Here #CAROUSELreviews#USEREVIEWEDNESDAY Matthew Tétreault’s Hold Your Tongue is a transporting novel. Deftly woven threads span decades within a single family, inviting readers to confront themes of generational trauma, language and culture. Told from the perspective of Richard — a young man caught between rural life in southeastern Manitoba and the prospect of opportunity in Winnipeg — Tétreault

USEREVIEW 084: Ghost Lake Survival Guide

In this thrilling and chilling experimental review, Emily Woodworth takes us on a knowing tour of the local lore, flora and fauna of Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler‘s Ghost Lake (Kegedonce Press, 2020). ISBN 978-1-92812-024-7 | 307 pp | $19.95 CAD — BUY Here #CAROUSELreviews#USEREVIEWEDNESDAY A Ghost Lake Guide to Survival by Ghost Lake Citizens for Tourism So, you want to visit Ghost Lake. You’ve made an excellent choice! An exhilarating, backcountry paradise awaits, complete with

USEREVIEW 062: A Bloodstory

Emily Woodworth’s exquisitely lyrical review of Rahela Nayebzadah’s debut novel, Monster Child (Wolsak & Wynn, 2021), is as urgent and visceral as if it were written in red ink. ISBN 978-1-989496-30-5 | 200 pp | $20 CAD — BUY Here #CAROUSELreviews#USEREVIEWEDNESDAY Blood flows through Monster Child by Rahela Nayebzadah until it animates, breathes, becomes a body in your hands. Then three bodies. Then six. A disease festers in the pages. Bloodguilt spatters the lives of

USEREVIEW 009: Classified & Personal

As readers and writers, we are often in a continual process of losing and finding the words we seek. In this experimental review, Emily Woodworth brings this metaphor to life by incisively reenvisioning Lidia Yuknavitch’s lyrical memoir The Chronology of Water (Hawthorne Books, 2011) as a series of classified ads, where the most deeply personal words are publicly sought and sold, lost and found. ISBN 978-0-9790188-3-1 | 310 pp | $18.95 USD #CAROUSELreviews