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A bored part-time college English instructor who teaches a class called "Humour in Classical Novels" to students who really don't care decides to try his hand at stand-up comedy, which takes him from his very protected academic world into an arena open to attack and persecution by his family, the public at large, the media and the courts. The novel explores issues such as political correctness/cultural sensitivity, personal and private space a...

This film noir novel begins with the Chilean government wanting to celebrate the life and work of the supposedly deceased Roberto Bolaño until they get an anonymous tip that he may still be alive and lurking. Afraid that he'll show up and ruin their celebration - he never agreed with the politics, and he frowned on the literature being lauded in Chile, in fact, he found acceptance and fame after he moved to Spain - they ask the local police au...

A Rogue's Decameron consists of ten stories - tales - that loosely follow the fabliaux style and are based within the spirit of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and Boccaccio's The Decameron extravagance, joy and ribald humour around sex, lust, vice, death and other ?hungers' of human beings. Using similar framing technique as these works - a prologue, a short description of each story and an epilogue, the stories explore themes such as social c...

Drawing from a variety of sources including folksong, philosophy, linguistics, chaos theory, theatre and sexuality, Stan Rogal's poetry is a rollicking and adroit expression of the world in flux. This selection gathers together fifty of Rogal's best poems from the last thirty years, it is sure to delight long-time fans and new readers alike.

Gay middle-aged hit men, a pathological interior designer, an idiot savant child and a gun-toting doughnut shop manager are some of the disparate characters that populate Stan Rogal's first novel. Beginning at vastly different points, geographically and emotionally, these seemingly unconnected people are woven together in the taut fabric of a story that follows the sweet sadness of the search for lost youth. The characters' paths move together...

normalwhats'normal is a collection of stories which explores the notion of normalcy, both in content and form, when it comes to certain human relationships and behaviours in our culture. The stories are of mixed genre (even genre-bending: realism, magic realism, fairytale, dream...) and mixed discourse (from the erudite to the profane). The reader finds the unreliable narrator, muddied/muddled text, plus allusions to art, literature, music, me...

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The idea for this collection was to offer a tip of the hat to people whose lives and/or works have influenced the author. Each piece is forwarded by a short background story as well as an epigram which provides some descriptive entry and flavour. The key was to construct these pieces in the author's own style and voice and not fall into simple mimicry. Many names have been encrypted into the pieces as fractured homonyms, a sort of pun for the ...

Stan Rogal's second novel is the story of one writer's journey through the urban wilderness. Taking the form of a writer's journal, this is a gross collection of entries, observations and letters to the editor, a scatological scrapbook of philosophical musings, literary meanderings, quotes, misquotes, contradictions and criticisms and a kaleidoscope of perversions. The novel excavates the meaning of love in the impenetrable city. At the same t...

In this collection of poetry and collage, Stan Rogal tackles all of our myths and monsters. With sly allusions, sharp humour and his trademark word play, Rogal reclaims the freaks of the world --from werewolves to celebrities --and shows them to be an important part of what makes us human. With collages to highlight the piecemeal nature of our society and underscore his poems, "Fabulous Freaks" is a beautiful and burlesque collection sure to h...

Mike Hanson is surprised to inherit his aunt's farmhouse in rural Abbey, Saskatchewan. Even more surprising are the terms of the will: To keep the house, Mike must live there for three years, pursuing his long-abandoned dream of becoming an artist. If he fails, various local charities will benefit. Settling into his new life in Abbey, Mike strikes up friendships with the local doctor and with a young farm girl who belongs to a closed, fundame...

In linked short stories imbued with wry humor, brutally frank honesty and caustically banal dialogue, women and men argue, make love and taunt each other mercilessly.

Yet another book of poems from the ubiquitous poet, playwright, actor, director, visual artist and standardized patient (yes, standardized patient), Stan Rogal. This is the first of Rogal's books to feature samples of his collage work.

Short stories about the heart of romantic relationships.