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In Review: The Week of July 16th
Our weekly roundup includes gender-swapped scenes from literary classics, interviews with rad authors, reading and writing in prison, and some of the spookiest books out there.
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~ “Just getting off the ferry is tricky for me. I know it is second nature for my neighbours, but I’m terrible at it.” Bay of Hope(ECW Press) about his five-years in an isolated Newfoundland community.~ Jacqueline Valencia’s poem “Taxi Driver Tracy” from There Is No Escape Out of Time (Insomniac Press) was our inspiration for these gender-swapped scenes from three literary classics.~ “Empathy—which is obviously fundamental—when used for art is still a form of narcissism. I can’t understand anyone without filtering them through my own ego first.” We interviewed Paige Cooper for #ALUbookclub about Zolitude (Biblioasis), writing, ego, and voluntary loneliness.~ “We’ve helped individuals read and write sentences for the first time in their lives.” We chatted with founder Robyn Keystone of Literal Change, a not-for-profit that works to bring literacy to inmates in two of Ontario’s maximum security centres.~ “Kurt Vonnegut hated semi-colons. How can you read a man like that? Obviously, he’s a negative influence. I tried and tried to imitate Alice Munro whose work I worshipped; turns out you can’t.” We interviewed the very funny Sharon Butala (author of Zara’s Dead, Coteau Books) about the writing life, her work, and her influences.
