2014 March

Steffie, Angel, Baby and More

Buried In Print2014-03-03T17:58:46-05:00

When I was in high school, I read Fran Arrick's Steffie Can't Come Out to Play (1978) more than once. I even wrote a book report on it in the ninth grade, when the assigned reading included J. Meade Falkner's Moonfleet and Robert Westall's The Machine Gunners. (Wanted: female characters.)

Steffie, Angel, Baby and MoreBuried In Print2014-03-03T17:58:46-05:00

“My Mother’s Dream” Alice Munro

Buried In Print2014-07-11T16:57:14-04:00

Perhaps, like many of us, Alice Munro has read and fully inhabited a story filled with wonders only to be cheated with the last-line revelation that the guts of that story were nothing but a dream. In contrast, "My Mother's Dream" subverts that expectation and begins with the dream, before

“My Mother’s Dream” Alice MunroBuried In Print2014-07-11T16:57:14-04:00

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