Nineteen stories. Titled from this Harriet Tubman quote. Order direct from Arsenal Pulp "I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom. I was a stranger in a
Today's bookish chatter: featuring Cornelia Hoogland's Woods Wolf Girl and two snack-sized servings of Daniel Griffin's Stopping for Strangers and Tony Burgess' Idaho Winter. Wolsak & Wynn, 2011 Cornelia Hoogland's Woods Wolf Girl is a page-turner of a poetry collection. Even if you are already familiar with the roots of
Albert, Grace and Vera are the visitors; Albert is Wilfred's brother, and Wilfred and Mildred are the married hosts. The brothers, Albert and Wilfred, haven't seen each other for thirty years. If circumstances had been different, the story might have been titled "Brothers", but it's titled "Visitors", emphasizing the unfamiliar,
Copernicus Avenue ends in a snarl of streetcar tracks. "We reached the bottom of the street where it widens into a multi-veined delta of streetcar tracks." Andrew J. Borkowski's Copernicus Avenue is a series of stories that intersect with each other, just as the rails from Queen Street, King Street, and the Avenue
In today's bookish chatter: a plateful of Rosemary Nixon's Kalila and two snack-sized servings of Britt Holmström's Leaving Berlin and George Elliot Clarke's Red. If Rosemary Nixon's Kalila came with a cover summary, many readers would put the book aside. And, yet, only a few pages into the story, the
