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STEVE IN TORONTO—AUDIO DRAMA

August 16, 2024March 16, 2014 by Keith

Motet, Cover Image (detail), HarperCollins, 1997

Warning–this is a dark scene from Motet, the darkest of my novels. Some listeners might find it disturbing.

“Steve in Toronto” opens in a loft on Queen Street in Toronto in 1977. I am playing Steven Beuhl. The amazing young Vancouver actress, Ranae Miller, is playing the punk rocker, Annie Epoxy.

If you want to know what happens next, listen to Episode 10 of The Canadian Fiction Podcast in which I read the rest of the story and talk about it afterward with podcaster Erika Thorkelson.

If I were writing Motet now, Annie Epoxy would have a far bigger role in it. Reading the book again for the first time after twenty years, I found her a fascinating, complex character who deserves far more stage time than I originally gave her.

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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.