Big Bang: Better Living through Plastic Explosives

2014-03-13T21:23:20-04:00

Zsuzsi Gartner’s Better Living through Plastic Explosives Penguin, 2011 I was stunned by All the Anxious Girls on Earth when it was published in 1999 (tell me: how has it happened that a dozen years have passed since then?). Partly because I read it all-in-a-rush. Partly because the stories are

Big Bang: Better Living through Plastic Explosives2014-03-13T21:23:20-04:00

Crossings: Into the Heart of the Country

2014-03-13T21:19:21-04:00

See L=Locale below for clues for these images Pauline Holdstock's Into the Heart of the Country Harper Collins, 2011 In 1693, an English man named Henry Kelsey wrote a poem about journeying into the heart of this country: “Then up ye River I with heavy heart Did take

Crossings: Into the Heart of the Country2014-03-13T21:19:21-04:00

For the Want of a Button: A World Elsewhere

2020-06-02T07:35:53-04:00

I carried this button with me even after I'd moved on to other Giller reading, thinking about AWE Wayne Johnston’s A World Elsewhere Knopf, 2011 Readers enter a world elsewhere, when Landish and Van meet on a bench at Princeton, in A World Elsewhere. They enter a fictional

For the Want of a Button: A World Elsewhere2020-06-02T07:35:53-04:00

Here We Go A-Giller-ing

2020-10-01T12:08:40-04:00

It's been a few years since I obsessed about reading the Giller titles (but that year I discovered Charlotte Gill's Ladykiller and that was terrific). Last year I brushed up against my troubled relationship with the list (Dear Giller Shortlist, Oh, how I used to wait for your five names...) but time

Here We Go A-Giller-ing2020-10-01T12:08:40-04:00
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