If you don't already follow Black Coffee Poet, you should definitely check it out. (You want a cup of coffee now, don't you? It can't be helped.) Black Coffee Poet started his own reading program -- an alternative to the typical DWM syllabus -- in September 2010 and the posts
Looking ahead to the linked stories in Who Do You Think You Are? readers might recall her earlier collection Lives of Girls and Women. Alice Munro has consistently said that it wasn't in her to write a novel, but these collections of linked stories could work as introductions
Well, then, I'd be lying. Because nothing is like Anne of Green Gables, right? But I'll Be Watching gave me a lot of the same feelings that reading my battered copy of Montgomery's story gives me. That's bound to sound hyperbolic, so let me explain. Pamela Porter's novel opens
Or perhaps you've already been introduced? I'm a little late to the Spiderline* party. Ava's big-screen deal has already taken shape, but we've only just met. She has developed quite the reputation since The Water Rat of Wanchai was published last January. When she meets Captain Robbins in Guyana, in
Jaspreet Singh's Chef Vintage Canada, 2008 Kirpal is on the train when he overhears a child ask her mother what people miss most when they die. He thinks, food. "We miss peaches, strawberries, delicacies like Sandhurst curry, kebab pasanda and rogan josh. The dead do not eat marzipan. The smell
