Cashtown reviewed at Roundtable Reviews

Tracy Farnsworth at Roundtable Reviews called People Live Still in Cashtown Corners "dark and gripping", giving "Kudos to the author for taking a fictional story and making it seem incredibly real."

Read the full review. (here there be spoilers)

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Cashtown Corners is "excellently effective enhanced literature"

An interesting review of People Live Still in Cashtown Corners comes to us from Vook. The review is of the eBook version and focuses on the ways in which the book has been enhanced for a digital format.
"It’s art. Good art. Not emotional art. But art that did something to my brain I didn’t expect. I enjoyed it. I had an experience. ...That’s one example of a piece of excellently effective enhanced literature."

Read the review. (spoiler warning)

Get the print or eBook version of Cashtown Corners here.

Cashtown Corners at Spinetingler

"...it looks like the psycho-noir is experience a bit of a renaissance for those readers willing to seek them out and People Still Live at Cashtown Corners [sic] is a worthy addition." - Brian Lindenmuth, Spinetingler

Check out the review (but watch out for a spoiler warning!)

Check out People Live Still in Cashtown Corners.

In Conversation with Tony Burgess

Canadian Bookshelf has launched a new interview feature, In Conversation With. For its inaugural post, hostess Julie Wilson interviews Tony Burgess, author of Pontypool Changes Everything and People Live Still in Cashtown Corners.

"TB: The gore and violence, well, it's like this. The gore and violence isn't in and of itself meaningful. It's native to my imagination for small reasons. It is a neutral medium. Any story I tell is told in it. Sometimes it crosses over to change the story and sometimes it's something the story has known and adapted to for a very long time. It's as if you committed your life to writing people who yell all the time. The shock and tedium of it push at lives in a meaningless and extreme way. The commitment is important."

Read the interview!

Check out or pages for Pontypool and Cashtown Corners!

Cashtown Reviewed at Barnes & Noble!

"Reading this novel by Tony Burgess was very much like my bookstore conversations with customers who may not have been completely sane – and after finishing People Live Still in Cashtown Corners, you won’t know whether to applaud Burgess’ impressively large literary cohones or arrange to have him committed to the nearest mental health facility..."

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Tony Burgess interviewed by Bookends

Tony Burgess interviewed by Justine Lewkowicz in the debut edition of Bookends. They talk about People Live Still in Cashtown Corners and Justine talks with Chris Szego of Bakka Phoenix Books about the serial killer genre.

Animated Cashtown Trailer!

Murder and Mayhem in Munroe Country

Steven W. Beattie of the Quill & Quire has this to say about People Live Still in Cashtown Corners:

"It would be a mistake...to assume that Cashtown Corners is a work of exploitation, or a simple genre entertainment. Burgess uses the conventions of horror fiction to craft a deeply serious fable about human connection and the discordant consequences that can result from an inability to successfully integrate into the conventions of polite society. In this regard, Burgess numbers Flannery O’Connor and William Faulkner among his literary progenitors."

Read the entire review here.

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Pontypool Screening!

Come to the Pontypool screening, December 3rd at 9pm at the Toronto Underground Cinema (186 Spadina Ave). There will be book signings, a Q&A with Tony Burgess, Stephen McHattie and Lisa Houle, and a screening of the book trailer for Tony Burgess' latest book, People Live Still in Cashtown Corners!

Globe and Mail Reviews Cashtown!

Tony Burgess' People Live Still in Cashtown Corners gets a favourable review in the Globe and Mail.

"[I]t is his voice, with its plain-spoken common sense, that draws us into the story and is so convincing that we almost don’t question the peculiarity of his perspective. Until the murders begin to multiply, of course. But even these random killings make sense in a certain context. According to Bob, people are the problem: “They make us nervous and then we kill them,” simple as that."

Click here to read the rest of the review!

Get your own copy here.

"Gross; Barbaric, But it Works."

Backlisted has an awesome last line on this one:

"And fuck you, Tony Burgess, if “blood moving through the cruiser like spiders jumping” pops up in my dreams tonight."

Read it all here.

Get your own copies here.

Fangoria Mentions Cashtown Corners

Though he's not right about it being a short story (it's a novella!), Fangoria makes a brief mention of People Live Still in Cashtown Corners.

Click here to see! And scroll down to the bottom, although the picture is at the top.

You know you want your own copy.

Coverage of Tony Burgess' Book Trailer

This trailer is spreading like wildfire.

Both the National Post and the Quill & Quire have written about the Bruce MacDonald-directed book trailer for Tony Burgess' People Live Still in Cashtown Corners.

The National Post calls it "dramatic stuff" and "present[s] an interesting blueprint for publishers to get filmmakers involved in their titles."

Take the Plunge into Cashtown!

As Chris Hallock at All Things Horror puts it, "[o]nce you take the plunge into Tony Burgess' "Cashtown Corners", you may never come back up."

"With his prose, Burgess has the ability to create highly philosophical passages pertaining to such everyday occurance as waiting for an intersection light to change, carrying on small talk with a neighbor, or even just deciding what TV channel to watch. These passages give astounding weight and depth to moments that would normally have someone fidgeting in their chair. Instead, Burgess channels those moments into one of self-reflection that dares to dive into the darkest of human emotions."

Click here for the rest of the review.

Want to read Cashtown? Get your copy here.

Short Review of Cashtown

Here's a short review of People Live Still in Cashtown Corners, by Justine Lewkowicz.

She will also be interviewing Tony Burgess for a new video webcast show she's starting in November, so stay tuned!

Click here for the review.

Click here for more on Cashtown.

Interview with Tony Burgess

The Torontoist interviews Tony Burgess about his upcoming book, People Live Still in Cashtown Corners!

Click here to read the interview.

Click here for more information about the book, soon to be released by ChiZine Publications!

Pontypool Changes Everything: One More Time!

You have one more chance to order the limited hardcover edition of Pontypool Changes Everything, by Tony Burgess! It's been extended one extra week because of the Labour Day weekend, where some people didn't get a chance to get their orders in.

Get it before orders close on Tuesday!

Review: People Live Still in Cashtown Corners

Paul Tremblay, who wrote In the Mean Time, reviews People Live Still in Cashtown Corners by Tony Burgess. Tony Burgess also wrote the screenplay for Pontypool, and the novel the movie was based on, Pontypool Changes Everything.

Click here to read the review!