Mavis Gallant’s “Wing’s Chips” (1954)

2023-10-12T11:00:17-04:00

This feels like a quintessential Mavis Gallant story: expectations and disappointments swirling around a young girl's form, as she begins to assemble a set of truths about the world. The town in "Wing's Chips" would never make it onto a postcard of Valley-living(Click for source details) Although the setting appears

Mavis Gallant’s “Wing’s Chips” (1954)2023-10-12T11:00:17-04:00

TGIF: In the workplace, on the page (4 of 4)

2017-07-24T14:35:03-04:00

A new Friday fugue, concluding this week, considering the ways in which our working lives appear on the pages of novels and short stories. (Previous weeks can be viewed here, here and here, if you're keen.) Riverhead, 2013 Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

TGIF: In the workplace, on the page (4 of 4)2017-07-24T14:35:03-04:00

Mark Lavorato’s Serafim and Claire (2014)      

2014-12-08T08:25:58-05:00

Mark Lavorato’s debut novel is aptly titled as the novel is equally divided between these two characters, a young woman who dances on stage and a young man who takes photographs on the streets. Through them, readers experience Montreal of the 1920s, from vaudeville to fascism, and women’s rights to

Mark Lavorato’s Serafim and Claire (2014)      2014-12-08T08:25:58-05:00

Trevor Ferguson’s The River Burns (2014)

2017-07-24T14:34:05-04:00

You'd think that the heart of the story in The River Burns is the covered bridge. The cover. The marketing. And the Author's Note which launches the novel refers to the actual Wakefield Bridge fire. "Historical events inspired the novel's genesis; skeletal aspects are mirrored here; yet the gentle shifts to time

Trevor Ferguson’s The River Burns (2014)2017-07-24T14:34:05-04:00

Kim Fu’s For Today I Am a Boy (2014)

2020-10-22T12:26:50-04:00

For Today I Am a Boy is a very ordinary story, told in a gentle and quiet voice. Kim Fu's novel does not challenge vehemently, like Ghalib Islam's brash debut or Helen Oyeyemi's Boy, Snow, Bird. "My father stood on the step and watched with me. It was the fall

Kim Fu’s For Today I Am a Boy (2014)2020-10-22T12:26:50-04:00
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