Ted Naifeh’s Courtney Crumrin series

2017-07-24T14:50:08-04:00

It begins with Butterworm "the neighborhood's oldest resident", the tale slipping between his bared teeth:  Courtney Crumrin: The Night Things, written and illustrated by Ted Naifeh (Oni Press 2012). He introduces readers to Courtney Crumrin, who is new in town. Her parents have run out of credit and have begged rooms with

Ted Naifeh’s Courtney Crumrin series2017-07-24T14:50:08-04:00

Dear Bedside Table —

2015-08-31T16:38:09-04:00

You and your books have been a real downer lately. It's not me, it's you. This was not in the stack. If it had been, I would have known that sadness awaited. True, I stacked them there. But "disturbing and yet deeply moving" on the back cover did

Dear Bedside Table —2015-08-31T16:38:09-04:00

How Much Happiness, Really

2017-07-25T11:20:32-04:00

Is it too much? Or, just enough. What am I to make of this final story in my Alice Munro reading project. (I read her last collection, Dear Life, in 2012.) While rereading Too Much Happiness, I was constantly aware of the references to being happy, to happiness, in the

How Much Happiness, Really2017-07-25T11:20:32-04:00

In My Reading Log

2020-05-21T16:00:38-04:00

The majority of my reading time this year has been devoted to the books which have been living for years, though neglected, on my own bookshelves. In May and June, I had a planned rebellion, and I enjoyed a great number of new books. But now I have returned to

In My Reading Log2020-05-21T16:00:38-04:00

Literary Kismet: Highway and Robinson

2015-08-21T10:43:10-04:00

Facts are only the random detritus of our lives until they are connected by story. Stories, to paraphrase Robert Kroetsch, make us real. If there is anything like truth accessible to us in the world, it must be through the ways we tell of ourselves to each other. Tomson Highway's

Literary Kismet: Highway and Robinson2015-08-21T10:43:10-04:00
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