Disobedience (2024)
“In the tradition of great, socially conscious sci-fi authors such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Daniel Sarah Karasik’s debut novel is a daring, emotionally arresting dive into the heart of many questions that haunt society today – how can we build communities around healing and repair rather than retribution? How can we embody radical transformation as well as radical care? What wisdom awaits us in the body erotic? Disobedience is a striking addition to queer and trans futurism, to speculative fiction, and to the revolutionary imagination.”
– Kai Cheng Thom, author of Falling Back in Love with Being Human
Plenitude (2022)
“At turns motivating, thought-provoking, touching and hilarious, this collection compresses volumes of theory and collective experience into shockingly short poems grounded in a world where ‘freedom / [is] a spilling over / from one bright, / unbearable / impossibility / into the next’ and there’s a ‘we’ struggling toward it. Daniel Sarah is the kind of writer that wants everything; this is the kind of book you read and give to comrades.”
– Wendy Trevino, author of Cruel Fiction
Faithful and Other Stories (2017)
“A man lies on his deathbed and begins to speak – not to his wife, who sits by his side, but to his memory of the woman with whom he had an affair. It is his wife’s response, and her voice – calm, measured – that makes ‘Mine’ the story it is. Thickly imagined and expertly executed, this is the sort of writing that reminds us of the possibility of redemption and the very hard work of being human.”
– Jury Citation, CBC Short Story Prize
Little Death: A Play (2015)
“Karasik is one of Canada’s most exciting young dramatists. With Little Death he is asking juicy, red meat questions about sex, meaning, and mortality. It is a little gem of a play; finely crafted and timeless.”
– Jordan Tannahill, author of The Listeners
Hungry (2013)
“In Hungry, the acclaimed playwright Daniel Karasik condenses his knowledge of character and situation into poems that get at the essential drama of the human. His poetry is penetrating yet warm in both vision and language: beautifully measured in both senses of the word. The title poem is as fine as any sonnet to come out of the recent revival of that form… and there is similar achievement on every page.”
– A.F. Moritz, author of The Sentinel
The Remarkable Flight of Marnie McPhee: A Play (2013)
“A timely play that speaks to many people on many levels. While mostly intended for the middle primary grades, much older kids and adults alike can take something away if only they choose to hear.”
– James Wegg Review
The Crossing Guard & In Full Light: Plays (2011)
“The Crossing Guard reverberates with emotion and gentle humour. ”
– Jon Kaplan, NOW Magazine