Margaret Atwood’s “When It Happens” and “A Travel Piece” (#MARM Week Three)

2023-11-13T19:50:42-05:00

Maybe three years ago, I watched an interview with Margaret Atwood—back when all the talk was about The Testaments (either its coming or its arriving), in which she was asked whether she considers herself an optimist or a pessimist and on the following weekend, Mr BIP and I were

Margaret Atwood’s “When It Happens” and “A Travel Piece” (#MARM Week Three)2023-11-13T19:50:42-05:00

Alistair MacLeod’s Second Spring (1980)

2022-02-17T15:54:45-05:00

Stories like Alistair MacLeod’s are often described as timeless, but many of them, like “Second Spring”, feel time-full. Immediately, MacLeod situates readers in time: “It was the summer after the seventh grade that saw me truly smitten with the calf club wish.” Then, he invites readers to fall into

Alistair MacLeod’s Second Spring (1980)2022-02-17T15:54:45-05:00

Alistair MacLeod’s “In the Fall” (1973)

2021-07-15T16:15:59-04:00

Usually, this is where I say that those of you who are reading here now, but not reading Alistair MacLeod’s short stories, will probably only be interested in the first couple of paragraphs after this introduction. Saying, skip The Underneath. But not this time. What remains the same, however,

Alistair MacLeod’s “In the Fall” (1973)2021-07-15T16:15:59-04:00

November 2016, In My Reading Log

2023-10-04T15:36:41-04:00

In the wake of my IFOA reading list and the literary prizelists of the season, my November reading felt relatively whimsical. Without duedates attached to the majority of my reading, it was a pleasure to slip into volumes which had sat untouched in recent weeks. Each of these three volumes covers,

November 2016, In My Reading Log2023-10-04T15:36:41-04:00

Three Novels that Made Me Smile

2015-07-10T13:47:26-04:00

It's not impossible to find them, but if you read a lot of literary fiction, the novels which contain humour are outnumbered. Each of these books actually addresses a serious issue (or touches upon it, for Susan Juby's novel doesn't delve very deeply): global warming and habitat erosion, family farm

Three Novels that Made Me Smile2015-07-10T13:47:26-04:00
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