Materfamilias Writes

Congratulations, Randall!

Congratulations, Randall!

Congratulations to Randall Maggs who was presented Wednesday with the E.J. Pratt award for his book Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems which I’ve written about here and here. The book won the Winterset award earlier…

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Kellerman’s Bones, Flynn’s Knife, and Wiseman’s Crackpot

Kellerman’s Bones, Flynn’s Knife, and Wiseman’s Crackpot

I wonder if I’m doomed to keep apologizing for cursory posts here — I do hope that, once I’ve got these two conferences behind me, I’ll be able to be a bit more expansive here,…

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Potpourri — mystery, chicklit, memoirs, theory

Potpourri — mystery, chicklit, memoirs, theory

Okay, this is going to be one of those quick catch-up posts — if I have a minute, one of these days I’ll take a photo or two of the stacks and stacks of unreads…

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Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Right now, my reading is divided primarily between a stack of student essays and, more happily, some guidebooks on London (I’m looking for a decent, affordable place to stay for a few days at the…

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Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For

Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For

Mater in Toronto last summer, in front of the Royal Ontario Museum’s Michael Lee-Chin Crystal As I mentioned last post, I’ve been teaching Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For. My students are finding much…

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