Bookworm, no. 63

Kyle Wyatt reviews Caroline Adderson’s “A Way to Be Happy.” Leighton Schreyer on HIV criminalization. A cover artist Q&A. Poetry by Mazzy Sleep. Inside the October issue.

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A Way to Be Happy
Caroline Adderson
Biblioasis
240 pages, softcover and ebook

“All Our Auld Acquaintances Are Gone,” which opens Caroline Adderson’s latest collection, first appeared in Canadian Notes & Queries in 2021. It has lingered in the mind of at least one reader ever since—with its foreboding description of what seems to be Coal Harbour, in V…