Coach House Books: source of CanLit's suffering fetish?

The latest issue of This Magazine features an amusing article on Canadian Literature's obsession with pain and suffering, with special attention to the work of Michael Ondaatje. Author John Degen makes note of Maggie Helwig's Girls Fall Down and that Coach House was the publisher of some of Michael Ondaatje's earliest works:<!--newline--><!--newline-->I note a brand-new Coach House title, Girls Fall Down by Maggie Helwig, brings potential bio-terrorism to the Toronto subway. Helwig’s characters drop to the tiled platforms in delightfully Ondaatjean style. Of course, Ondaatje began his career as a Coach House author. Is Canada’s hippest small press the source of all this pain and morbidity?<!--newline--><!--newline-->See the full article at www.thismagazine.ca.<!--newline--><!--newline-->