Longlisted for the 2014 Frank O'Connor Award

Novelists: the soul of an age, definitely. fabulous? possibly. but aren’t additionally they doddering, petulant, pedantic, knockkneed, skittish, and thunderingly insecure—resentful, awkward, annoying—demanding, deluded, and vexingly detached to truth? New from brief fiction devotée C.P. Boyko, Novelists is a comedy of manners (and manuscripts), rivalling vainness reasonable for its satirical wit… notwithstanding now not, mercifully, for its length.


PRAISE FOR NOVELISTS

“Proudly, gloriously, gleefully outdated of their kind and settings, those mostly comedian tales concerning the worst characteristics of artists are extra severe than they initially look: they depict the petty insecurities that gas each artistic act.”—Russell Smith

“If you're a basic individual, those tales, with their pitch-perfect satirical humour and their finely tuned sentences, will make you snigger out loud. while you are a author, first you'll squirm with attractiveness whereas envying his remarkable vocabulary, his nimble grammar, and his startling imagery, after which you’ll snigger out loud.”—Diane Schoemperlen


PRAISE FOR C.P. BOYKO

“Readers will benefit from the author’s versatility, quirky (sometimes uproarious) humorousness, sardonic view of the area, and fruitful mind's eye … Libraries with any short-fiction readers can purchase this booklet and preserve an eye fixed out for the subsequent one.”—Booklist, starred review

“Nothing wanting astonishing.”—The Walrus

“Keep your eye in this younger Canadian talent.”—Chatelaine

“Stunning … Boyko has an unstoppable imagination.”—The Globe & Mail

“Stealthy, seductive … a set that during many ways … will offer thought-fodder, let alone stable out of date excitement, for months.”— The Montreal Gazette

“Fans of satirical fiction will love this … impeccably researched and unflinchingly intelligent.” —The nationwide Post