Salon’s “Literary Guide to the World” goes Canadian today with a piece on Montreal fiction. It’s written by Toronto-raised David Bezmozgis (author of Natasha and Other Stories), who went to McGill University. Bezmozgis highlights three Montreal mainstays, first among them Mordecai Richler: “Nobody should visit Montreal without reading at least one of Richler’s books. My personal favorite remains his most famous and first fully realized Montreal novel, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.” Also plugged by Bezmozgis are Leonard Cohen (“Fittingly, I became acquainted with Cohen when I fell in love with a girl in my 20th century poetry class”) and Michel Tremblay.

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