Oh, my aching reader’s brain

2014-02-27T17:38:43-05:00

Kristjana Gunnars' The Substance of Forgetting (1992) Taking on the work of Kristjana Gunnars could take you in a variety of directions. Off the shelf came a short story collection (Any Day But This, 2004), a poetry collection (Silence of the Country, 2002) and a collection of essays (which remains

Oh, my aching reader’s brain2014-02-27T17:38:43-05:00

Proust in a Rose Garden

2014-02-27T17:38:55-05:00

Kristjana Gunnars' The Rose Garden (1996) When I bought my copy of The Rose Garden, it was shelved in Fiction at The Bookshelf in Guelph,  which is such a good bookstore that eventually I had to move to the town so that I could visit there more often than once

Proust in a Rose Garden2014-02-27T17:38:55-05:00

Kim Echlin presents Elizabeth Smart

2014-02-27T17:14:33-05:00

Kim Echlin's Elizabeth Smart: A Fugue on Women and Creativity (2004) When I included Elizabeth Smart on my list of reading for Women Unbound, I was sure that she belonged. Then, when I started into the reading in earnest, I wasn't sure; she seemed decidedly bound by her relationship with

Kim Echlin presents Elizabeth Smart2014-02-27T17:14:33-05:00

Margaret Atwood’s Negotiating with the Dead (2002)

2014-02-27T15:26:07-05:00

When I put my mind to thinking of Canadian feminists whose books I wanted to explore in 2010, Margaret Atwood's name came to mind immediately. I was a teenager when I first read The Edible Woman and Life Before Man and Cat's Eye, a young woman heading to university with

Margaret Atwood’s Negotiating with the Dead (2002)2014-02-27T15:26:07-05:00
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