Oct 23, 2024 | Book Reviews, Interviews
Hollay Ghadery is a multi-genre writer living in Kawartha Lakes, Ontario on Anishinaabe land. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Her fiction, non-fiction, and poetry have been published in various literary journals and magazines. Fuse,...
Oct 16, 2024 | Book Reviews, Interviews
On October 14, I had the pleasure to talk with author Nico Lang about their new book “American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era. An event sponsored by the Mill Valley Public Library, Mill Valley School District, and...
Sep 12, 2024 | Book Reviews
I had the pleasure to review and comment on debut author Éric Chacour’s novel What I Know About You, translated from the French by Pablo Strauss. “We say that we cry for the ones who have left us. But the truth is that we only ever weep for our own...
Jun 24, 2024 | Book Reviews
In his collection of interconnected stories, Rubble Children (University of Alberta Press, July 2024), Aaron Kreuter delves into themes of Jewish identity, settler colonialism, Zionism, anti-Zionism, and its complexities. The stories are told from rotating points of...
May 28, 2024 | Book Reviews, Interviews
In 2021 Genevieve Kingston published an essay in New York Times titled “She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box.” It tells the story of her terminally ill mother leaving a cardboard chest of letters and gifts for Kingston and her brother to be opened after her...
Sep 3, 2023 | Book Reviews, Craft
As we work through our drafts, the question of who’s the narrator and what point of view (POV) should I choose arises. Frederik Reiken suggests in his essay, The Author-Narrator-Merge, Why Many First-Time Novelists Wind up with Flat, Uninteresting Protagonists, that...
