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Alex Pugsley (born 1963) is a Canadian writer and filmmaker, [1] most noted for directing the 2014 film Dirty Singles. [2] In 1994 Pugsley and Laura MacDonald wrote and published Kay Darling, an epistolary novel consisting of letters between the title character and her friend Will. [3]
Alex Pugsley. Writer: Dirty Singles. Alex Pugsley is an award-winning film-maker and writer originally from Nova Scotia. His short films have played festivals around the world including the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the British International Short Film Festival, the Vancouver International Film Festival, the Toronto Worldwide Short ...
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Although the sections of Aubrey McKee were written to be short stories, they all have the same narrator and they’re all about Halifax. The short stories in Shimmerare quite different. There is an assortment of narrators, of varying maturities, and the stories take place all over—Toronto, L.A., and Cape Breton, among other settings. They were writte...
What do the stories have in common? Do you see a link between them, either structurally or thematically?
There arelinks between them. Characters you see in one story, from one character’s point of view, you might see again in another story, at another time, and from a different point of view. The reader has an active relationship with regard to figuring out who someone is and what their life means. And structurally they’re similar because they’re writ...
Following the publication of his first novel, Aubrey McKee, he was named one of CBC’s 2020 Writers to Watch. A winner of the Writers' Trust Journey Prize, Alex's first story collection,...
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Jun 12, 2020 · Alex Pugsley is a Nova Scotia filmmaker and writer. He is the co-author of the novel Kay Darling. His debut solo novel, Aubrey McKee is the first in a series of five autobiographical...
Four years ago, the writer and filmmaker Alex Pugsley published Aubrey McKee, the first of five planned autobiographical novels. Aubrey narrates his life in Halifax between 1963 and 1985. The history of the “saltwater city, a place of silted genius, sudden women, figures floating in all waters” confronts him as he passes “through ...
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Jun 19, 2020 · Whether he’s recalling his phase as “an indiscriminate teenage joiner” or as a marijuana salesman in the mid-1970s, Alex Pugsley’s narrator writes from the point of a man well settled into ...
