Over The Edge Page 8A TS RAreYy SUPP Levent March 23, 1998
The First Ever Literary Supplement :

(or three weeks of phone tag/voicemail hell)

By Everett Cole

| have to admit that
being the person in
charge of organizing the
first ever Over The Edge
Literary Supplement
was both an honour and
something of a chal-
lenge. What started as a
small project soon had
me scrambling with
some of the largest and
smallest publishers in
the world calling the
office. The interest
shown not only in the
paper, but also in the
campus itself has been
phenomena! from. all
parties | have spoken
with during this project.
There are a few people

that have made this pro-
ject a joy to work on, the
first of which springs to
mind are the people at
the newspaper who
made this happen and
took direction from
someone they hardly
knew. Secondly, while
many book companies
were responsive to the
idea of students review-
ing books,
HarperCollinsCanada
and the local press,
Caitlin Press, were
instrumental in making
this actually happen. |
rather expect that there
are more books coming
from these publishers

Over The Edge

and others, and it is
from this expectation
that | think that this will
become a regular fea-
ture of Over The Edge.

In closing, a love for
reading is shared by
many students and it is
this aspect of post-sec-
ondary education that
has allowed me recently
to partake of my favorite
vice. Please, read on,
and enjoy.

Everett Cole

Literary Supplement
Coordinator
cole_everett @ hotmail.c
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by Jim Munroe

published by
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A university student
who can turn into a fly.

A waitress who can
make things disappear.

Mixed together with
Sailor Moon as an inspi-
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crazy?
Actually, it’s a
hell of a lot of
fun.

Flyboy is a
colourfully
playful look at
the streets of
Toronto seen
through the
eyes of a uni-
versity student
named Ryan.

Not entirely
sure who he is,
he simply

knows that he
can turn into a
fly, a fact which
frightens and
intrigues him.
After meeting a_ girl
named Cassandra in a
greasy spoon/cof-
feeshop (who later
reveals her own super-
power) he discovers a
great deal about the
world around him.
Through poetry
evenings, dialogue
between well-estab-
lished characters with a
great deal of history, and
an excellent sense of
Ryan’s insecurities
about language, Flyboy
establishes a world of
artists and intrigue that
asks the reader to listen,
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different angle. An
exploratory work of fic-
tion that probes deeply
into the various forms of
activism in our modern
society, Flyboy is able to
entertain and _ delight
while still managing to
discuss pertinent social
issues such as Cancer,
Corporations, and
Sexual Exploitation.

As Munroe’s first major
release, Flyboy is a great
text. Full of comic book
references and fanciful
ideas, Flyboy embodies
the spirit of learning and
play that is inherent to
each of us.

Jim Munroe is a regular
of the Toronto scene,
publishing zines with
rants, absurdist tracts,
handwritten poems and
novellas. He has also
worked for York unversi-

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Excalibur, the media
activism magazine,

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Reviewed by Everett
Cole

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