Daniel Francis

Reading the National Narrative

February 2026

February 6, 2026

It's been 35 years since Steve Osborne and Mary Schendlinger, partners in life and in literature, launched Geist onto the stormy seas of the Canadian magazine world. I doubt they gave much thought to the distant future -- just paying the printer for the next issue was challenge enough -- but given the precarity of literary publishing in this country they could hardly have expected that their Vancouver-based magazine would still be going strong ...