Daphne Du Maurier Reading Week and Other Overdue Reports

2021-08-13T11:32:55-04:00

This year I re-directed my focus away from a couple of years of determinedly reading from backlists (so that new books comprised only about 30% of my reading) back to freshly published and forthcoming books.* What I hadn’t anticipated was how delicately I would need to balance my library

Daphne Du Maurier Reading Week and Other Overdue Reports2021-08-13T11:32:55-04:00

Quarterly Stories: Summer 2021

2021-07-01T12:36:45-04:00

Alexie, Dunning, Piatote and an Anthology Short Stories in April, May and June Whether in a dedicated collection or a magazine, these stories capture a variety of reading moods. This quarter, I returned to a must-read everything author and explored two new-to-me story writers.

Quarterly Stories: Summer 20212021-07-01T12:36:45-04:00

Alistair MacLeod’s “The Vastness of the Dark” (1971)

2021-04-09T11:30:42-04:00

The laundry hangs on the clothesline in the background, while Alistair MacLeod speaks to his wife Anita about what their life was like when the kids were young. It’s there, in the film “Reading Alistair MacLeod”, that I see Anita patiently waiting, while he pulls out a small stack

Alistair MacLeod’s “The Vastness of the Dark” (1971)2021-04-09T11:30:42-04:00

Alistair MacLeod’s “The Boat” (1968)

2021-03-30T14:17:43-04:00

Those of you who are reading here now, but not reading Alistair MacLeod’s short stories, will probably only be interested in the first couple of paragraphs after this introduction. Feel free to skip past the section that I've titled The Underneath, written with those who know the story-or other

Alistair MacLeod’s “The Boat” (1968)2021-03-30T14:17:43-04:00
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