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Fiction. Canadian Cultural Studies. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO BEHAVE combines the true story of Canadian daredevil and stunt driver Ken Carter (1938-1983) with imagined biographical elements from the lives of Canadian film director Bruce Mcdonald and Canadian poet Gillian Sze. Along the way, this quintessential Canadian story crashes head first into many related things, from screenplay theory to hip hop history to the story of early Canadian film to drawings to photographs to bank robberies to chaos theory to technical specs for Detroit muscle cars to re-imagined movies to imagined documentary to advertisements to newspaper interviews to instructions for making molotov cocktails to Evel Kneivel to Steve McQueen's Bullitt to self-help tomes to "rappers delight to online instructions for how to publish a book, such as the one you are about to read called I DON'T KNOW HOW TO BEHAVE by Michael Blouin.
About the author
MICHAEL BLOUIN is a ReLit Award winning author for Best Novel in Canada, has been shortlisted for the Amazon First Novel Award, the bpNichol Award and the CBC Literary Award and is a winner of the Diana Brebner Award and the 2012 Lampman Award. He has been published in most Canadian literary magazines including
Arc,
Descant,
Branch,
Dragnet,
The Antigonish Review,
Event,
Queens Quarterly, and
Fiddlehead, and has served as an adjudicator for The Ontario Arts Council, the Ottawa Book Awards, Carleton University, and
This Magazine.
