Mavis Gallant’s “Bernadette”

2017-07-14T15:29:31-04:00

Alice Munro's hired girls like to read too.In "Sunday Afternoon", Alva asks Mr. Gannett if she could borrow "King Lear" and, also, Stendhal's The Red and the Black. Mr. Gannett agrees to share his books with Alva, just as Mr. Montjoy gifts the young Alice with his copy of Seven Gothic Tales at the end of

Mavis Gallant’s “Bernadette”2017-07-14T15:29:31-04:00

Mavis Gallant’s “Acceptance of Their Ways”

2017-07-14T15:26:58-04:00

As is fitting for the opening story of Mavis Gallant's second published collection, My Heart is Broken, many themes feel familiar. The question of what constitutes a "good" woman, particularly when she is not a wife. The dilemma of trying to live an interesting life while maintaining a sheen of

Mavis Gallant’s “Acceptance of Their Ways”2017-07-14T15:26:58-04:00

June 2017, In My Bookbag

2017-07-24T15:24:22-04:00

In which I discuss the skinny volumes which accompany me on my travels, while the heavier volumes (like Margaret Millar's omnibus of mysteries, like Elizabeth von Arnim's Christopher and Columbus) remain at home. Tiphanie Yanique's Wife appeared from Peepal Press in 2015, after a collection of stories and a novel:

June 2017, In My Bookbag2017-07-24T15:24:22-04:00

Life on Mars, Again and Again

2017-07-24T15:24:28-04:00

When you've looked up a book title, have you ever been tempted by the other books you've found with the same title as the book for which you were searching? In adding Lori McNulty's debut short story collection to my online TBR list, I discovered several other books with the same

Life on Mars, Again and Again2017-07-24T15:24:28-04:00

Mavis Gallant’s “A Day Like Any Other” (1953)

2017-03-26T13:27:13-04:00

There is less than a year between Jane and Ernestine Kennedy, young sisters who “resemble little Renoirs”. They live with their mother, Mrs. Kennedy, who is so preoccupied with caring for their father, that the girls have a minder, Frau Stengel (their sixth). Jane Wyman in “Das Herz Einer Mutti”

Mavis Gallant’s “A Day Like Any Other” (1953)2017-03-26T13:27:13-04:00
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