Quarterly Stories: Spring 2014

2020-09-16T15:56:42-04:00

In collection reading, since Quarterly Stories: Winter 2013 I've read Susie Moloney's Things Withered, the latest installment of the Alice Munro reading project, B.J. Novak's One More Thing, and the most recent volume of Journey Prize stories.  But mostly I've been dipping into single stories in recent months. Partly this was inspired by random samplings of the latest ReLit

Quarterly Stories: Spring 20142020-09-16T15:56:42-04:00

The Tea Lords: A Novel of Java

2021-02-01T10:49:50-05:00

Reading The Tea Lords in close proximity to Lawrence Hill's novel The Book of Negroes raises the question of what stories one prefers to hear told. The Tea Lords chronicles life on an Dutch colonial tea plantation in Java in the 1870s, from the plantation owner's perspective. The Book of

The Tea Lords: A Novel of Java2021-02-01T10:49:50-05:00

An Assortment of Teenlit: Four Books

2014-03-15T18:20:49-04:00

Aristophane’s The Zabîme Sisters Trans. Matt Madden (2010) This was the happy product of a browsing session on a summer day that found me seeking the relief of the public library's A/C. I brought it home and took it to bed on a still-too-hot night, the sort when you really

An Assortment of Teenlit: Four Books2014-03-15T18:20:49-04:00

Thrilled by Rose Tremain

2014-03-15T18:07:36-04:00

Rose Tremain's Sacred Country (1992) London: Sceptre – Hodder and Stoughton, 1993. I was thrilled with this book. So thrilled that, although I had read almost half of it before I lost track of it in a chaotic part of the year, I re-read that half willingly on a second

Thrilled by Rose Tremain2014-03-15T18:07:36-04:00

John Steffler’s The Afterlife of George Cartwright (1992)

2014-03-13T20:24:06-04:00

John Steffler’s The Afterlife of George Cartwright McClelland & Stewart, 1992 When John Steffler’s novel opens, Nottinghamshire is shimmering with the energy of May and George Cartwright describes the familiar route he’s taking on his horse. Doesn't seem that remarkable. Yet. But. It's the “same route he’s taken every day

John Steffler’s The Afterlife of George Cartwright (1992)2014-03-13T20:24:06-04:00
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