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

The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction 2024 (1 of 4)

2024-04-10T12:59:58-04:00

On the longlist, I’d read just four of the books when the nominees were announced, two last year and two this year. For those who can forgive short stories for not being novels, Lisa Alward's Cocktail will satisfy on many levels. She’s got the sharp observations of writers like

The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction 2024 (1 of 4)2024-04-10T12:59:58-04:00

The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction 2023

2024-04-03T18:58:08-04:00

Last year I read 11 of the longlisted titles for The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and with the recent announcement of the 2024 longlist I was prompted to reflect on 2023’s selections. Three of the short story collections I’ve already written about—Talia Laksmni Kolluri’s What We Fed to

The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction 20232024-04-03T18:58:08-04:00

Winter 2024, In My Reading Log

2024-04-03T16:09:39-04:00

My reading this year has a different rhythm. Some year-long projects require only a few pages of reading each week, a chapter maybe. In contrast, reading for work requires bursting through backlists in a week or two. In between, some books have sprawled in that territory between lackadaisical and

Winter 2024, In My Reading Log2024-04-03T16:09:39-04:00
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