Flirt: The Interviews

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In a steadfastly selfish and dishonestly original voice, the narrators sole project is to get closer to herself by inching nearer to the people who matter most to her, but to whom she means nothing. In Flirt: The Interviews, Lorna Jackson has unleashed something new onto the world of literature, a series of short linked fictions exploring love and fame and longing, and the language we use to express them. The book might be a long comic essay on adolescent grief, or an essay on creativity, but mostly its a collection of short fictions meant to mock real interviews and to question the sort of information we find in them.

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"Jackson's capable writing is informed by a gritty, shoot-from-the-hip sensibility..."—Quill & Quire "Each interview stands alone as a most innovative kind of short story, relying on language alone for effect."—Pickle Me This

Author Bio

Lorna Jackson: Vancouver-raised Lorna Jackson began her working life as a musician and travelled throughout British Columbia for nine years as a bass player and singer. She has published two collections of short stories, Dressing for Hope and Flirt: The Interviews, and a novel, A Game to Play on the Tracks. Cold-Cocked: On Hockey, the first book to explore a woman's way of watching the game poet Al Purdy called a "combination of ballet and murder," was published by Biblioasis in 2007. As well, her non-fiction and literary journalism have appeared in Brick, Quill & Quire, The Georgia Straight, and Malahat Review. She teaches writing at the University of Victoria.