Issue 108: Assorted Pedestrians

We're calling our Fall issue "Assorted Pedestrians" after a winning line from Cathy Stonehouse's story "Beryl Takes a Knife."  It is, as the name implies, a mixed bag, but the best kind thereof--a pillowcase heavy with Hallowe'en loot, a family, a favourite shoe store.  A few of our editors' predilections thus revealed, on to the delights in this edition of TNQ: the return of two of our occasional features (Falling in Love with Poetry and Word & Image) as well as the launch of a new one, Magazine as Muse. Russell Smith and Cynthia Brouse begin this series by telling us about The Face and Chatelaine, the respective magazines that made them want to write (among other things). This issue is also home to a wide range of poetry and fiction, capped by Terry Griggs's "Joie de Viv"; the story's narrator and Hero (by name if only erratically by function) is a preternaturally articulate and garrulous baby some of you will remember as ovum and foetus in stories that appeared earlier in TNQ and in the CNQ companion issue to our summer's Salon. Finally, rounding out this rich issue is a pair of essays on the role of research and serendipity, of repression and sensation, in fuelling our impulse to tell stories and determining the kind of stories we tell.

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Issue 108: Assorted Pedestrians