This kind of identification—truth intrweavng with fiction—beats at the heart of the exprience of literature. But being appropriated by a person, like being appropriated by a mental illness, feels flattering and violating and queasy and riveting and boring. newyorker.com/books/under-re…

to have found the right word and lost it, she writes, is “in retrospect infuriating.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-fa…

Words are now online.

"The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow." youtube.com/watch?time_con…

"I was told when I was young that I would not be successful until I was very old." youtube.com/watch?v=OSyiwH…

Thresholds: On the Genre-Defining Work of Barbara Loden ossamagazine.org/wanda-barbara-…

"Not long after she ruins her life, Wanda goes window shopping." New review of Wanda now up at Ossa Magazine: ossamagazine.org/wanda-barbara-…

"Not to mention many of the media plots, surrounding internships and referencing defunct magazines and blogs that will now have to be … “editorial” jobs at direct-to-consumer mattress companies?" thecut.com/2019/07/we-hav…

New words now online: as.vanderbilt.edu/nashvillerevie… Thank you nashville review for giving this story a home.

"Short, intense narratives... heavy with nostalgia and oneiric emotion." Quinn Mason reviews Susan E. Lloy's latest collection, Vita The Virtual Library mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/vita/

“Henry James described her as ‘deliciously hideous’ after he met her in 1869, when he was twenty-six and handsome.” google.ca/amp/s/www.newy…

not aloof just dissociating

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Fall 2019 Quinn Mason reviews Of Vengeance by J.D. Kurtness: "In deceptively simple prose, Kurtness mounts a poignant and timely argument about the danger of running headlong into the hands of technologies we don’t fully understand." mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/of-ven…

In BC, 70 tree planters have come forward with accounts of sexual assault and harassment while working. Read Quinn Mason on the dangers of the industry's culture, especially for women. maisonneuve.org/article/2019/0…

Under cover of mass death, Andrew Cuomo calls in the billionaires to build a high-tech dystopia interc.pt/2WCdYLL by Naomi Klein

“It was a painful time that I pretended wasn't painful, if only because I retained the hope, still, that the love I wanted would be forthcoming if I didn't bug the object.” ssense.com/en-ca/editoria…

Erin MacLeod kaie Vehicule Press And now (drumroll please) our most-read 2020 review: The Butcher of Park Ex by @AKessaris, published by Guernica Editions and reviewed by Quinn Mason! "Full of larger-than-life characters and unexpected wit," Mason says about these "semi-truthful tales". mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/29304/

an interview with Quinn Mason nothinginparticular.online/interviews/qui…