Zsuzsi Gartner

I have been asked by Canadian Notes and Queries to review Zsuzsi Gartner's Better Living Through Plastic Explosives (Penguin, 2011).

So ... collecting some online research here.

Interviews with ZG

• The Walrus
• The National Post
• Swerve Calgary
• Books in Canada
• Open Book Toronto

 Audio/video/online fiction

•  ZW on Channel 4
• Audio version of "Summer of the Flesh Eater"
• Story: "We Come in Peace" (The Walrus)

 Reviews of Better Living Through Plastic Explosives:

• National Post
• Globe and Mail
• Toronto Star
• Vancouver Sun
• Georgia Straight
• Monniblog
• Pickle Me This
• Quill & Quire
• Bellas Bookshelves
• Reading for the Joy of It
• I just read about that
• Leek Vern
• Winnipeg Review
• Book Mine Set
• Nous Pique
• Goodwill Johnson
• Winnipeg Free Press
• In The Next Room
• Book Gaga

Based on a quick survey of the reviews, it would seem fair to say that the book has so far provoked mixed opinion.

I thought it was very funny and very clever.

But more on that later in CNQ.

(See also my review of the Gartner-edited anthology, Darwin's Bastards.)


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