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The 49th Shelf: Reading My Way Through Motherhood
I’ve written a post about Canadian books that have bolstered or challenged me as a mother. It’s up now at 49th Shelf. Go take a peek, but be warned, there are a lot of cool things to look at 0ver...
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That Much of a Pirate: Deborah Eisenberg and Me
Those people who know me know that Deborah Eisenberg is one of my literary idols and an unofficial writerly mentor. I was first introduced to her work when I was studying at Literature and Creative...
View ArticleConversations in the Book Trade with Finn Harvor
Here is an excerpt from an interview I did recently with Finn Harvor. He asked some really interesting, tough questions about the state of publishing, e-books, book prizes, and what it means to be a...
View ArticleIrma Voth
I just finished reading Irma Voth by Miriam Toews. I absolutely adored this book. It is lovely and funny/sorrowful and it’s about sisters and the shifting boundaries of the self and the ways in which...
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Finding the Interesting
And didn’t it always go like that – body parts not quite lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and...
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Finding Voice
Heart in Cheese Bread (accidental composition by Eleanor Checketts) Stacey D’Erasmo: Well, it’s like a coming-of-middle-age novel. I think the idea of finding one’s voice is something that’s very much...
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Seaweed on Gress Beach
Okay. It is not couth to open a blog by saying, ‘I am, like, such a bad blogger.’ Just like it is inadvisable to begin a speech or a reading or an argument with a self-conscious disclaimer....
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What I Owe: Thoughts From A Straight Ally
In the wake of the tragedy in Orlando, many of my LGBTQ friends and colleagues have expressed the importance of straight allies speaking up, offering support both private and public. I (and by this ‘I’...
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November Means Make-Up
Every November I buy make-up. Which is weird, because I don’t wear make-up. But the skies go grey and the ‘day goes dismal’ (Hello, Joni Mitchell!) and out comes my credit card and down goes my bank...
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