The Seaboard Review of Books
Volume 3, Issue 1 of The Seaboard Review of Books, January 5, 2025
In this issue:
Incantations by N. Milanne (Fiction)
if, after snow by Sheila Graham-Smith (Fiction)
Better Not Burn Your Toast by Dr. Joe Schwarcz (Non-Fiction)
Moving Pictures: The Movers by Noam Gal (Non-Fiction, Art).
Thanks for reading this issue of The Seaboard Review of Books!
James M. Fisher, editor-in-chief
Fiction
Incantations by N. Milanne
Incantations by N. Milanne is the first self-published book in her projected Jeannie’s Bottle series.
if, after snow by Sheila Graham-Smith
“Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.” —Edgar Allan Poe
Non-Fiction
Better Not Burn Your Toast by Dr. Joe Schwarcz
Do mushrooms and tomatoes have health benefits? What happens to foods cooked at high heat? Should you be concerned about food dyes? What about highly processed foods? These are some of the questions Dr. Joe Schwarcz examines in Better Not Burn Your Toast: The Science of Food and Health.
Moving Pictures: The Movers by Noam Gal
The cover of Noam Gal’s The Movers reproduces Gal Weinstein’s carpet installation, Jezreel Valley. This landscape or “carpetscape” features two stooped workers vacuuming the carpet, painting its synthetic fibres, or sweeping political minefields. Shapes and colours hint at a camouflage of military fatigues in this politically charged region with its arc…
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The High-Rise in Fort Fierce by Paul Carlucci
Five stars for a stellar example of contemporary creative fiction. Reading this book was like binge-watching 5 seasons of a TV show on Netflix. It is simply marvellous how Mr. Carlucci weaves each story into a cohesive perspective on life in a small NWT town and its lone high-rise that shelters all manner of left of normal types. Humorous and sad, raw and honest, this book will satisfy those who enjoy good contemporary fiction. (Contributed by James M. Fisher)
Finalist, Ottawa Book Award for Fiction 2019
Long-Shortlisted, 2019 Relit Award (Short Story Category)
Contributor News
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