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“I hated melancholy, the way it could fester in a room and turn everything pale. There was nothing left to say, I thought, not today. It was then that Canadian Jay once again stood up, this time on a chair, and declared peameal bacon the greatest Canadian export since Alan Thicke.”

Danny Goodman, “Somehow There Was More Here”

“Danny Goodman is very special indeed. When you’re ready to scream about the shallow fields sown in contemporary, urban, hipster fiction, along comes Danny, who is himself contemporary, urban, and, thank god, an old soul, one who can actually capture and crystallize the modern experience.” — Joseph Boyden, author of the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novel Through Black Spruce