Sunday, August 31, 2014

War of Streets and Houses by Sophie Yanow

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Two things prompted me to re-read  War of Streets and Houses , Sophie Yanow's slim comics memoir about the Montreal student strike in ...
Saturday, August 30, 2014

The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O'Neill

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Heather O'Neill, author of Lullabies for Little Criminals , has created another unforgettable Montreal narrator: 19-year-old Nouschka ...
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Sunday, August 24, 2014

The Wives of Los Alamos by TaraShea Nesbit

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First person plural: TaraShea Nesbit has chosen an unusual voice to narrate her debut novel and I like it.  The Wives of Los Alamos is ju...
Saturday, August 16, 2014

Inside a Pearl by Edmund White

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Inside a Pearl is preeminent gay author Edmund White's gossipy memoir of his years as a writer in Paris. He moved there in 1983, when...
Monday, August 11, 2014

Musical Interlude: Edmonton Folk Music Festival 2014

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Four days of fantastic music on a hill that forms a natural amphitheatre: that's the Edmonton Folk Fest and I love it! Didn't ...
Thursday, August 7, 2014

Agostino by Alberto Moravia

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A boy and his widowed mother spend a summer at the Tuscan seaside in Alberto Moravia's novella Agostino . It's a contemporary clas...
Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? A Memoir by Roz Chast

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Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? is cartoonist Roz Chast's funny and emotionally honest memoir about dealing with agi...