The Globe and Mail met with the real life Sam Shelstad to ask him about how he decided to tell a story in the form of a writing manual narrated by his namesake
The pitch for an article on “demystifying the writing process” that I received in my email within days of reading The Cobra and the Key was the kind of odd, grandiosely worded missive you might expect from Sam Shelstad, the narrator of Sam Shelstad’s sophomore novel. Of course,