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Bookworm, no. 56

Emily Latimer reviews Cole Nowicki’s new essay collection. David Venn on Jeremy John’s “The Death Swing at Falcon Lake.” A page from “Summer in Furnished Rooms.” Inside the September issue.

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Literary Review of Canada
Aug 13, 2024
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Everything Everywhere All at Once

Laser Quit Smoking Massage
Cole Nowicki
NeWest Press
160 pages, softcover and ebook

If the essay collection Laser Quit Smoking Massage were a shop of curiosities, then Cole Nowicki would be its unconventional proprietor, eager to delight passersby. Even the book’s title prompts a second take. Is it a shopping list? A to-do l…

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