June 2024: #ReadIndigenous (4 of 5)

2024-06-25T10:58:15-04:00

The past few days, I’ve shared talk of ten different books by and about Indigenous stories (here, here, and here), and today I’ll write about three more: some poems, a novel, and an illustrated song. D.A. Lockhart’s 2022 collection, Go Down Odawa Way (Kegedonce Press, in Neyaashiinigmiing / Owen

June 2024: #ReadIndigenous (4 of 5)2024-06-25T10:58:15-04:00

Earth Changes, Habit Changes (3 of 4)

2024-08-20T09:18:39-04:00

The climate crisis erupts regularly in my reading, in unexpected ways. In Natsumi Hoshino’s manga series for children, Plum Crazy, named for the household’s first cat, even the cats heard a news report and pawed at the light switches to reduce their energy consumption. (My laugh came out more

Earth Changes, Habit Changes (3 of 4)2024-08-20T09:18:39-04:00

Alistair MacLeod’s “The Lost Salt Gift of Blood” (1973)

2021-07-29T14:21:53-04:00

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 Lost Salt Gift of Blood” (1973)2021-07-29T14:21:53-04:00

Earth Changes, Habit Changes (2 of 4)

2021-06-10T11:40:33-04:00

During the past year, I’ve read sixty-three books, fiction and non-fiction, related to the climate crisis. Just this week, I finished Katłįà's (Catherine Lafferty's) 2020 novel Ndè-ti-yat’a (Land-Water-Sky)--an unstoppable read. Maybe this new habit has an element of contagion: have I convinced you to read one? Earlier in 2021,

Earth Changes, Habit Changes (2 of 4)2021-06-10T11:40:33-04:00
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