“Jakarta” Alice Munro

2014-07-11T17:02:58-04:00

"Give her a room of her own and five hundred a year, let her speak her mind and leave out half that she now puts in, and she will write a better book one of these days." So said Virginia Woolf. McClelland & Stewart, 1998 And although Kath

“Jakarta” Alice Munro2014-07-11T17:02:58-04:00

Cats and Other E-encounters (Fifth Day, thanks to Found Press)

2014-01-14T12:50:32-05:00

Later last year, I was invited to participate in a conversation between a number of readers who enjoy short fiction: Steven W. Beattie, Alessandra Ferreri, Andrew Wilmot, Chad Pelley and Steph VanderMeulen. The conversation appears here, if you'd like to check it out, but what you won't see at Found Press is the mad erruption

Cats and Other E-encounters (Fifth Day, thanks to Found Press)2014-01-14T12:50:32-05:00

Quarterly Stories: Winter 2013

2019-08-07T11:00:10-04:00

My last short story post was in Autumn 2013 and focussed on recently published collections (Rosemary Nixon's Are You Ready to be Lucky? Elisabeth de Mariaffi’s How to Get Along with Women, and Shaena Lambert’s Oh, My Darling).  Cormorant Books, 2000 In recent weeks I have been dabbling in some volumes on my shelves,

Quarterly Stories: Winter 20132019-08-07T11:00:10-04:00

The Journey Prize Stories: 25 Years

2014-06-26T14:26:31-04:00

Although the Journey Prize is now synonymous with the idea of quality short fiction in Canada, not everyone realizes that the prize was established out of James Michener's donation of his royalty earnings from his 1988 novel Journey. Michener's novel was set partly in northwestern Canada, but the stories in

The Journey Prize Stories: 25 Years2014-06-26T14:26:31-04:00

“The Love of a Good Woman” Alice Munro

2014-07-11T17:04:03-04:00

After a lifetime of collecting, Mr. Joseph Herbert Neill sold 1,000 objects to the county on the condition that they open a museum and appoint him curator. This is the story I imagine lurking behind the Walley museum in the opening paragraphs of "The Love of a Good Woman", behind D.M.

“The Love of a Good Woman” Alice Munro2014-07-11T17:04:03-04:00
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