Website of Author Keith Maillard

Audio

Episode 10, Canadian Fiction Podcast (March 19, 2013).

Keith Maillard, reading from Motet followed by interview with Erika Thorkelson.

“Alex Warner Revisited,” Corin Raymond with the Undesirables, on the album, Travelling Show.

Song inspired by Keith Maillard’s novel, Alex Driving South.

“Alice (John’s Acid Trip),” scene from Keith Maillard’s Looking Good.

Audio-drama written and produced by Keith Maillard.

John has been carefully avoiding acid–he’s afraid of it, afraid of a bad trip–but eventually, when staying with friends in rural New Hampshire, he takes it. A colleague of mine who knows about such things suspects that the drug that John takes is not acid but is the notorious STP that was floating around in the underground at the end of the ’60s. Whatever it is, here’s John’s trip.

Keith Maillard is the author of fifteen novels, one book of poetry, and two memoirs. He has won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Literary Prize and the Governor General's Literary Awards. The Clarinet Polka was awarded the Creative Arts Prize by the Polish American Historical Association. Dementia Americana won the Gerald Lampert Award in 1995 for the Best First Book of Poetry Published in Canada.

Keith was born and raised in Wheeling, West Virginia, the inspiration for the fictional town of Raysburg which serves as the setting for many of his novels. He has been a musician, a contributor for CBC Radio, a freelance photographer, and a journalist. He teaches in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.

Keith occasionally posts to X (formerly known as Twitter), to Facebook, and to Tumblr where he feels much more at home. He always posts under his own name.