I’d’ve thought it more your style to sneak in. I mean, it’s not like those leaves turn colour overnight: it happens on the sly, doesn’t it. But nobody could’ve missed your arrival today. Oh, sure, the sky was grey in the morning. There was even a skitter of
Zsuzsi Gartner’s Better Living through Plastic Explosives Penguin, 2011 I was stunned by All the Anxious Girls on Earth when it was published in 1999 (tell me: how has it happened that a dozen years have passed since then?). Partly because I read it all-in-a-rush. Partly because the stories are
See L=Locale below for clues for these images Pauline Holdstock's Into the Heart of the Country Harper Collins, 2011 In 1693, an English man named Henry Kelsey wrote a poem about journeying into the heart of this country: “Then up ye River I with heavy heart Did take
I carried this button with me even after I'd moved on to other Giller reading, thinking about AWE Wayne Johnston’s A World Elsewhere Knopf, 2011 Readers enter a world elsewhere, when Landish and Van meet on a bench at Princeton, in A World Elsewhere. They enter a fictional
