#jay hosking

[the-final-sentence]

Then I drove north and west until the city was nothing, a time that I could neither change nor control but simply carry, three years of my life I would often hold up to the light and inspect.

Jay Hosking, from Three Years with the Rat

[theelmwoodclutch]

Solar 42F synth - Cinematic performance

[prdzx]

Making sample magic with the Elektron Octatrack MkII (live performance)

[ancasicartileblog-blog]

Trei ani în labirint - Jay Hosking (recenzie, Rao)

Trei ani în labirint – Jay Hosking (recenzie, Rao)

„O combinație incendiară de roman science-fiction și thriller psihologic…” – Kirkus

Nu știu când sau dacă aș fi ales romanul acesta. Pe mine mă sperie orice are pe copertă SF. Îmi adresez întrebări existențiale, mă gândesc adeseori dacă există alte forme de viață sau dacă există o altă dimensiune a timpului. Am crezut în mașinăriile capabile să călătorească în spațiu și timp. Înainte să vă spun…

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[canadianbooks]

Three Years with the Rat by Jay Hosking

... from Hamish Hamilton ...

After several years of drifting between school and go-nowhere jobs, a young man is drawn back into the big city of his youth. The magnet is his beloved older sister, Grace: always smart and charismatic even when she was rebelling, and always his hero. Now she is a promising graduate student in psychophysics and the centre of a group of friends who take "Little Brother" into their fold, where he finds camaraderie, romance, and even a decent job.

But it soon becomes clear that things are not well with Grace. Always acerbic, she now veers into sudden rages that are increasingly directed at her adoring boyfriend, John, who is also her fellow researcher. When Grace disappears, and John shortly thereafter, the narrator makes an astonishing discovery in their apartment: a box big enough to crawl inside, a lab rat, and a note that says This is the only way back for us. Soon he embarks on a mission to discover the truth, a pursuit that forces him to question time and space itself, and ultimately toward a perilous confrontation at the very limits of imagination.

This kinetic novel catapults the classic noir plot of a woman gone missing into the 21st century city, where so-called reality crashes into speculative science in a novel reminiscent of Danielewski's House of Leaves. Three Years with the Rat is simultaneously a mind-twisting mystery that plays with the very nature of time and the story of a young man who must face the dangerously destructive forces we all carry within ourselves.

Published in August 2016.

[walrusmagazine]

Illustration by Lisa Vanin (lisavanin.com).

Read “Hackles” (April 2016) by Jay Hosking at thewalrus.ca.

[little-fiction]

Two Years of Little Fiction, pt. 24

With new stories coming next week, it's a perfect time to wrap up our two-year retrospective. And, of course, it wouldn't be complete without a look back at the three amazing stories we celebrated the two-year mark with.

Here again are Snap by Shawn Syms, The Vector by Jay Hosking and Making Cowboys by Leesa Cross-Smith.

Snap by Shawn Syms Download ePub | Read online

The Vector by Jay Hosking Download ePub | Read online

Making Cowboys by Leesa Cross-Smith Download ePub | Read online

Cheers.

[little-fiction]

Happy Halloween

If you’re looking for some literary chills or some good old fashioned nightmare-inducing creepiness, here are a few Little Fiction treats that might do the trick:

SATIN LIVES! by Andrew F. Sullivan

Analogue by Jay Hosking

Calm, Ghosts by Meredith Hambrock

Happy haunting.

- LF.