Akpan, MacLeod, Muñoz, Savaş, Talty and Tamayose Short Stories in April, May and June 2023 Whether in a dedicated collection or a magazine, these stories capture a variety of reading moods. This quarter, I returned to two favourite writers and also explored four new-to-me story writers.
Fofana, Lam, Morrison, Ogunyemi, Scott, Smith and Smyth Short Stories in January, February and March 2023 Whether read all-in-a-burst or over several weeks, these stories capture a variety of reading moods. This quarter, I returned to three favourite writers and also explored four new-to-me story writers.
In Mothers of the Novel, when Dale Spender writes about her education, she doesn’t consider it inferior. But somehow she graduated with the belief that men had invented the novel and that they’d written all the good ones. So the table in her book (and contents overall), containing the
Soon: I’m not there yet. Over the break, I finished the last two books lingering on the stack from 2023: two rereads, Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman and Eugene Zamyatin’s We. With fewer than 50 pages in each, they belong to 2023, and alongside, I looked back to what
One final bit of MARMing remains for us, MARMers. And I bet many of you are wishing that it actually IS the end of November, as so many of you have more items on your to-do lists right now than you have books on your shelves. I’m wishing it
