JERROD EDSON

I am working on a new novel--one that has been tugging at me for about ten years now. It will not be one of my typical Saint John nove...

laugh at morality pure morality because it doesn’t exist— that behind closed doors we are all immoral we are all skeletons and if there is a...

he sliced his arm clean off in the lawnmower blade. it was a sunny sunday morning and the mower had been clogged by the dew-covered grass, a...

I've just put together a poetry chapbook called skeletons . These poems have been collecting dust for years and this is something I'...

I've just completed another rewrite of The Goon and have begun work on my fifth novel. It's slow going at the moment but with a ful...

Jean Rhys is the most underrated writer who has ever lived. A true genius, and one of my biggest influences. Her novels include Postures , (...

The best thriller ever written is The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth. He is one of the greats.

Most live writers do not exist. Their fame is created by critics who always need a genius of the season, someone they understand completel...

The best thing about the holidays is that you get some time to read a few books. I just finished Jaws for the second time, and it's gott...

A Place of Pretty Flowers by Jerrod Edson Ottawa, ON: Oberon Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7780-1313-6, 156 pp., $18.95 paper. A Place of Pre...

A Place of Pretty Flowers was recently longlisted for the 2008 ReLit Awards. The ReLit Awards are, according to the Globe and Mail, “The co...

I have started a group on Facebook "Jerrod Edson - Writer" where I've added pics from places I've written about in my nove...