I
have started a few more projects when I should be finishing those
that are nearing completion. This list exists partially to motivate
me, but is also meant to explain how far I have to go.
A collection
of parables and warnings, Under the Frenzy of the Fourteenth
Moon, is a set of short stories which outline the difficulty
and splendor of imagination when confronting our varied world.
I have been
working on a collection of stories about Canada Clouds in
the Cultural Desert, in which I build a narrative about
specific cities and regions in the country.
I have started
another novel project, The Greenhouse Girl, which
tells the story of a teenage writer who has picked a classmate
as her writing subject, a choice which takes her places she never
imagined.
The
Long Bloom of the Failed State is a series of essays on
politics which is closer to being done all the time.
I am still
thinking about an academic examination of Thomas King's "One
Good Story, that One." A Savage Indictment: The Mythos
of Colonization in Thomas King's "One Good Story, that One"
will be a longer project which uses a number of his other texts
to interpret the story.
I have been
writing a series of essays about Covid-19 and the media, as well
as the public reaction to the virus' spread. Although that book
is still in its early days, I am working on it between my other
projects.
I have recently
started to compile a collection of essays about creative projects,
writing, editing, and what I think about publishing.
One of my
latest projects is Beringia: The Discovery of Two Continents.
In this novel I tell the story of a father who runs out of bedtime
stories to placate his daughter. Night time is the worst since
her mother left, so he distracts her by telling a history of their
ancestors and how they crossed the land bridge and found North
and South America. I plan for the novel to cover the entire settlement
of the Americas as well as give a précis of the archaeological
marvels that are found there. As well, since the story is meant
to encourage a girl to sleep, the tale of indigenous people's
arrival and settlement is told in the broad strokes of grand adventure
and awe-inspiring journeying.
Historiography
and the Corrupted Archive: The Postmodern Text, Fact and Confabulation
is more of an academic work based on a talk that I gave, and undertakes
to investigate and metaphorically figure how history, or a story,
can be told when the archive has been deliberately corrupted or
neglected for political purpose. This will likely be a longer
project, and I am barely fifty pages into it. You can expect to
hear more about it in a year or two.
I am still
thinking about my book length explication of Jacques Lacan's enigmatic
and evocative theory about the writteness of the self in my Jacques
Lacan and Subjectivity.
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