Chuqiao Yang credits T.S. Eliot for her love of writing poetry. As a child, she was an inveterate, and uncommonly…
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April 3, 2024 at 01:54pm
“Big cities sometimes have really small dicks.” That, in microcosm, might sum…
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April 12, 2023 at 01:03pm
If Catherine Graham’s parents had not died while she was in university…
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April 5, 2023 at 01:24pm
One of the most satisfying things about Jason McBride’s new biography of notorious avant-garde American literary provocateur Kathy Acker is…
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November 23, 2022 at 12:09pm
“The Prado,” the opening poem in Sue Sinclair’s volume of new and selected poetry, begins, “Afterward, I asked myself what…
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April 20, 2022 at 12:21pm
When Madhur Anand was in residence at Al Purdy’s A-Frame on Roblin Lake, near the Ontario town of Ameliasburgh, she…
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April 13, 2022 at 11:14am
“My literary career goes back to when I was eight…
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January 5, 2022 at 01:46pm | Filed under:
Writing Life
Talking about the Canadian short story is difficult because, in one important respect, it doesn’t exist. Generic classifications are obviously…
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October 13, 2021 at 12:43pm | Filed under:
Industry News, Writing Life
When a Canadian author’s name is floated as a possible successor to Alice Munro for the Nobel Prize in Literature,…
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July 14, 2021 at 10:27am
The novel is dead. At least, that’s what readers have been told for pretty much as long as novels have…
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May 17, 2021 at 12:47pm