“Rich as Stink” Alice Munro

2014-07-11T16:57:30-04:00

In "Save the Reaper" and "The Children Stay" readers are directed to wonder what young children remember of their parents' shenanigans, but in this story readers inhabit Karin's perspective. Karin is certainly old enough to actively observe and contemplate the events unfolding around her (although from a girl's perspective, so

“Rich as Stink” Alice Munro2014-07-11T16:57:30-04:00

Margaret Drabble’s The Pure Gold Baby (2013)

2019-08-07T09:52:51-04:00

One might say that the narrator of Margaret Drabble's novel is an anthropologist of sorts. Perhaps that would be misleading, however: "Anthropology is full of strange spirit stories, about shamans and witchcraft and night ridings and animal shape-shiftings, stories which hover between myth and fairytale and religion and tribal memories

Margaret Drabble’s The Pure Gold Baby (2013)2019-08-07T09:52:51-04:00

Letters Between Canadian Writers

2014-03-23T08:42:28-04:00

This from Hugh MacLennan to young Marian Engel in 1956: "If I can be of any help to you, don't hesitate to write and tell me so. I'm cynical about theses, having done one myself, but I suppose they are necessary if you can avoid taking them too seriously." University

Letters Between Canadian Writers2014-03-23T08:42:28-04:00

I’m late to the Ideal Bookshelf party, but a grateful guest

2014-03-23T08:31:13-04:00

More than a hundred contributors chose books to fill their ideal bookshelves to make up this volume (edited by Thessaly La Force, artwork by Jane Mount). I spent weeks browsing through the pages, amused to find that sometimes the shelves of the writers I'd eagerly anticipated when I saw their

I’m late to the Ideal Bookshelf party, but a grateful guest2014-03-23T08:31:13-04:00

Lauren B. Davis’ The Empty Room (2013)

2021-07-02T16:34:34-04:00

"No, drinking oneself to death took too long." Harper Collins, 2013 Ironically, Colleen thinks this almost at the end of Lauren B. Davis' The Empty Room. But once a reader has resolved to begin, the narrative is so tightly constructed that readers are as caught in the momentum

Lauren B. Davis’ The Empty Room (2013)2021-07-02T16:34:34-04:00
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