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Dear Reader: What’s Told? Or, the Telling of It?

Buried In Print2020-05-15T15:05:12-04:00

In my recent reading, it’s been as much about how the story is told as it’s been about the story itself. This certainly isn’t a new idea—these examples span three decades—but sometimes the phenomenon is more prevalent in my stacks. Maybe you’ve read some of these, or maybe

Dear Reader: What’s Told? Or, the Telling of It?Buried In Print2020-05-15T15:05:12-04:00

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New Homes, Other Homes: Emigration and Immigration

Buried In Print2018-05-30T16:18:40-04:00

There are many amazing stories about moving from somewhere to elsewhere, about the process of elsewhere becoming somewhere. Take Rabindranath Maharaj's The Amazing Absorbing Boy - literally, amazing. It's right there on the cover. It's a real favourite of mine, in which seventeen-year-old Samuel reads comic books in Trinidad to

New Homes, Other Homes: Emigration and ImmigrationBuried In Print2018-05-30T16:18:40-04:00