Materfamilias Writes

Lorrie Moore’s A Gate at the Stairs

Lorrie Moore’s A Gate at the Stairs

Lorrie Moore’s short story “People Like That Are the Only People Here” has long been one of my favourite stories, so when her new novel was published, I was eager to read it. It doesn’t…

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Don Domanski and metaphor

Don Domanski and metaphor

I’ve just read Canadian poet Don Domanski’s Ralph Gustafson lecture Poetry and the Sacred, published as a beautiful hand-stitched chapbook. As I was recently thinking about metaphor while reading Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies and Dickens’…

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end-of-summer scent

end-of-summer scent

With the start of term speeding toward me, I’m trying to gobble as much fun reading as I can — right now, I’m devouring the bonbon that is Catherine Sanderson’s Petite Anglaise. More on that…

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