The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 2024

2024-10-15T10:44:25-04:00

The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction lodged in my mind because I really loved its inaugural winner: Kadija Abdalla Bajaber’s The House of Rust when I first read it. Bill and I read it again earlier this year, while anticipating the announcement of this year’s shortlisted books.

The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 20242024-10-15T10:44:25-04:00

The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction 2024 (2 of 4)

2024-04-08T21:04:26-04:00

Louise Erdrich and Barbara Kingsolver, Amy Tan and Elizabeth Strout: these are some of the writers whose stories about parenting, and being parented, stand out in my mind. Claudia Dey’s fiction could be included here, too, although her stories spiral around alienation and abandonment—the ways in which those who

The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction 2024 (2 of 4)2024-04-08T21:04:26-04:00

#ReadIndigenous Ailton Krenak, Toni Jensen, and Jesse Thistle

2021-07-01T14:33:36-04:00

Indigenous activist and leader, Ailton Krenak (Aimoré/Krenak), has published three of his short essays in Ideas to Postpone the End of the World (Translated from the Portuguese by Anthony Doyle in 2020). With clarity and passion, he illustrates how the indigenous perspective acknowledges and nurtures relationships with parts

#ReadIndigenous Ailton Krenak, Toni Jensen, and Jesse Thistle2021-07-01T14:33:36-04:00

Here and Elsewhere: Between Places (2 of 4)

2021-10-05T15:43:37-04:00

Stories set in—and revolving around—Vietnam have appeared on BIP many times, like Marcelino Truong’s coming-of-age memoir in translation by David Homel: Such a Lovely Little War (2014; 2015) (his follow-up, Saigon Calling, brought the family to England). Also Robert Olen Butler’s Perfume River (2016) but to say much more

Here and Elsewhere: Between Places (2 of 4)2021-10-05T15:43:37-04:00

Mavis Gallant’s Dédé

2020-05-01T10:55:45-04:00

Some of the stories NOT told in Mavis Gallant’s Dédé, a story named for Sylvie’s younger brother, Amedée: We don’t catch even a glimpse of the time in which “the future Mme Brouet was studying to be an analyst of handwriting, with employment to follow – so she [Sylvie]

Mavis Gallant’s Dédé2020-05-01T10:55:45-04:00
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