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His first story collection, Shimmer, was recently nominated for the 2023 ReLit Award for Short Fiction. His next book, The Education of Aubrey McKee, has just been published by Biblioasis. The second in a multi-part series, the novel details Aubrey’s arrival in Toronto as a young adult.
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]
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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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...
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May 20, 2024 · The following is from Alex Pugsley's The Education of Aubrey McKee. Pugsley is the author of the novel Aubrey McKee and the short story collection Shimmer. Following the publication of Aubrey McKee, he was named one of CBC’s Writers to Watch. He has been nominated for Canadian Comedy Awards, Gemini Awards, Hot Doc Awards, National Magazine ...
