“Fiction” Alice Munro

2017-07-25T11:22:47-04:00

Is it something like a triangle? With happiness, unhappiness and love arranged with an equal distance between each point? Perhaps. Certainly there are triangles in "Fiction", shifting alliances and fractures. Love triangles. Happiness triangles. Just enough. Too much. The kind of happiness discussed in "Fiction" is different from that which

“Fiction” Alice Munro2017-07-25T11:22:47-04:00

Mark Anthony Jarman’s Knife Party at the Hotel Europa (2015)

2015-06-25T08:56:40-04:00

A book-length demonstration of propulsive prose. This is the word that I wrote in capital letters, in the margins of my reading diary about Mark Anthony Jarman's Knife Party at the Hotel Europa (2015), but then I wondered if I had subconsciously (deliberately, even!) lifted it from the cover. It sounds like

Mark Anthony Jarman’s Knife Party at the Hotel Europa (2015)2015-06-25T08:56:40-04:00

June 2015, In My Stacks

2017-07-24T15:25:24-04:00

My progress through Gabrielle Roy's works has been slow but steady, and this month I requested one of the children's books, which I held out for myself as a reward for finishing six of her novels. My treat was to be Cliptail, but the only copy available in the public

June 2015, In My Stacks2017-07-24T15:25:24-04:00

Summer 2015, In My Bookbag

2017-07-24T15:25:58-04:00

Tomorrow, I will be on the move. So many of the books currently occupying a position in my stacks are bulky and heavy, that it was easy to choose amongst the skinny residents. I have one more story to read in Gabrielle Roy's The Road Past Altamont. There are only three in

Summer 2015, In My Bookbag2017-07-24T15:25:58-04:00

Neil Smith’s Boo (2015)

2015-06-23T09:04:44-04:00

There are "ways of making people into ghosts". So Atticus say, to Jem in To Kill a Mockingbird, about Boo (Arthur) Radley. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015 Neil Smith turned Oliver Dalrymple into a ghost in Boo. And, then, he named him Boo and gave him a Casper the Friendly Ghost

Neil Smith’s Boo (2015)2015-06-23T09:04:44-04:00
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