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Reading… The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels. Technically this is work. I’m presenting a conference paper on Saturday about this novel, so I’ve been frantically throwing some thoughts together about…
February 19, 2016
This is a beauty of dissonance…
This is a beauty of dissonance, this resonance, of stony strand — from “The Lonely Land” by A.J.M. Smith If you know me at all, whether in person or…
August 24, 2017
Breakfast with Regret
Regret slips in quietly sometime around 3 a.m.He curls up in your favourite chair,pulls a blanket over himselfand waits.When you wake upthere he isdozing in your living room.And no matter…
August 30, 2014
Home
“I know,” Morag says. “[…] All I want is everything.”
Ella strikes a theatrical wrist to her forehead. “Engrave it on my tombstone.”
— Margaret Laurence, The Diviners