Margaret Atwood Reading Month 2024 #MARM2024

2024-11-01T15:31:03-04:00

Happy MARM to everyone who’s reading this post! From Friday, November 1st to Saturday, November 30th it’s Margaret Atwood Reading Month, and you’re invited! (And, don’t forget, the 18th is Margaret Atwood’s 84th birthday. Cake, anyone? I mean, EVERYone?) Read or watch one thing, read or watch everyday, or

Margaret Atwood Reading Month 2024 #MARM20242024-11-01T15:31:03-04:00

Mavis Gallant’s A Fairly Good Time #1970Club

2024-10-18T17:24:59-04:00

What a delight to be invited to the #1970Club party and to bring Mavis Gallant as my guest. The quintessential short story writer published her novel A Fairly Good Time in 1970. The first chapter is a letter from Shirley Perrigny’s mother, a slippery few pages that spill from

Mavis Gallant’s A Fairly Good Time #1970Club2024-10-18T17:24:59-04:00

MARM Countdown, How Long ‘til November?

2024-09-16T13:44:16-04:00

A couple weeks ago, I shared some recent short story reading, but right now I’m thinking about reading the final stories in Margaret Atwood’s Dancing Girls. And how I’ll soon read the next section from her newest collection Old Babes in the Wood. But this

MARM Countdown, How Long ‘til November?2024-09-16T13:44:16-04:00

Mid-Year 2024, In My Reading Log (Women’s Stories)

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Past the mid-point of the reading year, I notice that there are some books I finished reading some time ago, lingering. Just, around. Left in innocuous places as though I just finished reading them there. Finally, when I found a place for Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s novel (on the shelf

Mid-Year 2024, In My Reading Log (Women’s Stories)2024-07-25T10:19:11-04:00

The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction 2024 (2 of 4)

2024-04-08T21:04:26-04:00

Louise Erdrich and Barbara Kingsolver, Amy Tan and Elizabeth Strout: these are some of the writers whose stories about parenting, and being parented, stand out in my mind. Claudia Dey’s fiction could be included here, too, although her stories spiral around alienation and abandonment—the ways in which those who

The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction 2024 (2 of 4)2024-04-08T21:04:26-04:00
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