Alistair MacLeod’s Second Spring (1980)

2022-02-17T15:54:45-05:00

Stories like Alistair MacLeod’s are often described as timeless, but many of them, like “Second Spring”, feel time-full. Immediately, MacLeod situates readers in time: “It was the summer after the seventh grade that saw me truly smitten with the calf club wish.” Then, he invites readers to fall into

Alistair MacLeod’s Second Spring (1980)2022-02-17T15:54:45-05:00

Alistair MacLeod’s “In the Fall” (1973)

2021-07-15T16:15:59-04:00

Usually, this is where I say that those of you who are reading here now, but not reading Alistair MacLeod’s short stories, will probably only be interested in the first couple of paragraphs after this introduction. Saying, skip The Underneath. But not this time. What remains the same, however,

Alistair MacLeod’s “In the Fall” (1973)2021-07-15T16:15:59-04:00

Slavery: Past and Present #280898 Reasons (2 of 4)

2021-06-03T16:21:08-04:00

Although this project was motivated by a recent statistic reported from the 2020 election in the United States, I’ve been reading about slavery since I was a kid. But, first, I watched Cicely Tyson in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974) and A Woman Called Moses (1978) about

Slavery: Past and Present #280898 Reasons (2 of 4)2021-06-03T16:21:08-04:00

November 2016, In My Reading Log

2023-10-04T15:36:41-04:00

In the wake of my IFOA reading list and the literary prizelists of the season, my November reading felt relatively whimsical. Without duedates attached to the majority of my reading, it was a pleasure to slip into volumes which had sat untouched in recent weeks. Each of these three volumes covers,

November 2016, In My Reading Log2023-10-04T15:36:41-04:00

Jane Hamilton’s The Excellent Lombards (2016)

2017-05-18T06:23:26-04:00

Excerpt from my reading journal: Having read all of Jane Hamilton's novels, and having waited since 2009 for another, I was pretty psyched for The Excellent Lombards. Grand Central Publishing, 2016 My favourites were The Short History of a Prince and The Book of Ruth, which I read

Jane Hamilton’s The Excellent Lombards (2016)2017-05-18T06:23:26-04:00
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