It's possible that the readers who will warm most fervently to The Wondrous Woo are those readers who feel a connection with a passage like this: Inanna Publications, 2013 "The first episode had come after an incident at the Woolco cafeteria when I was ten. It was $1.44
Fairy tales began as stories for adults. "They were the television and pornography of their day, the life-lightening trash of preliterate peoples," says John Updike. Translated (Danish) Charlotte BarslundOther Press, 2014 Distraction and entertainment, but years later edification and morality: the words 'fairy tale' mean different things in
You might think Struan is an unlikely setting for a novel. A town you can walk through in under ten minutes (even on slippery wintry surfaces). Knopf Canada, 2013 "Walking from one end of Struan to the other takes less than ten minutes. If you kept walking south
Think there's nothing in common between this year's Giller Prize winner and Mélanie Watt's Scaredy Squirrel series? Take this quote from Lynn Coady's Hellgoing: "You can only be vigilant, she thought, about a few things at a time. Otherwise it’s not vigilance anymore. It starts to be more like panic."
One might say that the narrator of Margaret Drabble's novel is an anthropologist of sorts. Perhaps that would be misleading, however: "Anthropology is full of strange spirit stories, about shamans and witchcraft and night ridings and animal shape-shiftings, stories which hover between myth and fairytale and religion and tribal memories
