Alistair MacLeod’s “Winter Dog” (1981)

2022-03-15T10:57:59-04:00

Naomi warned me this weekend: I knew immediately which one it was, the one with the dog’s body, broken and dragging itself home after it’s been shot. Since then, I’ve been thinking about how to write about this story without reading it again. And, so, I have started with

Alistair MacLeod’s “Winter Dog” (1981)2022-03-15T10:57:59-04:00

Mavis Gallant’s “A Painful Affair” (1981)

2019-06-26T15:53:21-04:00

As soon as I met Henri Grippes, I felt like I knew him. He reminded me of Charles Filandreux in “Siegfried’s Memoirs” (in Coming Ashore). Filandreux is a writer, all tied up in knots at the idea of writing a review he “would undoubtedly be requested to write”. Except

Mavis Gallant’s “A Painful Affair” (1981)2019-06-26T15:53:21-04:00

Beyond I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)

2018-03-22T11:23:49-04:00

The first volume of Maya Angelou's autobiography begins with Marguerite arriving in Stamps, Arkansas, at three years old, with her brother, Bailey, one year older, in the care of Miss. Annie Henderson, their grandmother ("Momma"). It moves from the store to the churchyard, from hymn-singing to beatings. It crosses time and space fluidly.

Beyond I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)2018-03-22T11:23:49-04:00

Mavis Gallant’s “La Vie Parisienne” (1981)

2017-12-18T19:56:12-05:00

"My name is Renée. I am fifty-four years old. For twenty-seven years I have been the concierge at number 7, rue de Grenelle, a fine hôtel particulier with a courtyard and private gardens, divided into eight luxury apartments …" In Muriel Barbery's The Elegance of the Hedgehog, readers cosy up

Mavis Gallant’s “La Vie Parisienne” (1981)2017-12-18T19:56:12-05:00

My mini-Canlit-read-a-thon on Canada Day, 2014 (I)

2014-08-15T06:53:27-04:00

Sometimes a stack of reading goes stale. For no good reason. You know what I mean. Maybe you're just bored with the covers. Or you've been teasing the books along with a page here and there, when they needed some quality one-on-one time. That's where I was with my stack,

My mini-Canlit-read-a-thon on Canada Day, 2014 (I)2014-08-15T06:53:27-04:00
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