Alistair MacLeod’s “The Vastness of the Dark” (1971)

2021-04-09T11:30:42-04:00

The laundry hangs on the clothesline in the background, while Alistair MacLeod speaks to his wife Anita about what their life was like when the kids were young. It’s there, in the film “Reading Alistair MacLeod”, that I see Anita patiently waiting, while he pulls out a small stack

Alistair MacLeod’s “The Vastness of the Dark” (1971)2021-04-09T11:30:42-04:00

Arjun Basu’s Waiting for the Man (2014)

2014-07-11T16:34:12-04:00

“We crave narrative,” Joe tells us. And the Reader who picks up Arjun Basu’s Waiting for the Man nods: a narrative craver. ECW Press, 2014 “We believe we are uninteresting without a compelling story.” But Joe himself no longer finds his story compelling. The Reader meets Joe when

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