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Writing. Rewriting. The editor. The agent. The publisher. The road tour. Aftermath revelations.
The Writers' Show, hosted by Holley Rubinsky, is the show about writing and publishing for writers and readers. Archived online, the shows are available to listen to any time.
 “Rubinsky’s voice is clear, her eyes and ears are carefully tuned, and she has something fresh and loving to say about the world that we live in daily. Too often, at our peril, we neither see nor hear that world and consequently cannot love it. Rubinsky’s stories are restorative in the best sense of that word, and renewing.” Russell Banks “At First I Hope for Rescue is a remarkable novel by a huge and genuine talent. Holley Rubinsky has perfect pitch — not just for characters, for the way they think and speak and behave, but for the whole enterprise of telling a story as well as it can be told.” Ian Brown “This is rocky emotional country. [These linked stories] are oddly beautiful, spellbinding evocations of the subtle psychological currents eddying about the most mundane people...” Quill & Quire “Affecting, fascinating...These stories [have] the power of ambush...Rubinsky reveals the strangeness of humans and the heart-rending drama of ordinary survival...The overall impression is one of revelation.” The Vancouver Sun “Books this good are rare...You could sample the life’s work of Alice Munro and Mavis Gallant and then come to this book without disappointment.” The Edmonton Journal “There are raw moments here, but there is also a wacky sort of pluck to the way the characters talk and stagger on with their lives that feels distinctly Canadian....Impressive.” Maclean’s 
“Holley Rubinsky’s stories are downright disturbing. They vibrate with submerged anger, grief, violence, betrayal. They will return to haunt the reader in the middle of the night. Forceful and beautifully evocative in their telling, these finely crafted stories grab the reader about the throat. There is a steely uncompromising hand behind this body of work, not a hint of sentimentality; relentlessly determined to portray accurately the underside of life.” Sandra Birdsell
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