A Mount Royal University English professor and one of his formers students have struck a chord with a musical collaboration based on their newly published novels.
Arctic Smoke, by Randy Schroeder, professor in the Department of English, Languages and Culture, was published Sept. 15 by NeWest Press. The book follows aging punk Lor Kowalski as he and his band head north for a mysterious Arctic festival tour. The work has been described as "an absurdist punk-rock adventure through counter-counterculture's most otherworldly spaces."
Bachelor of Arts, English alumnus Niall Howell's new novel, Only Pretty Damned, was also published by NeWest Press in the spring. Set in a circus during the 1950s, "a taut noir that takes readers behind the big top, revealing rough and tumble characters, murderous plots, and crooked schemes designed to keep Rowland's World Class Circus afloat for another season."
