Our exploits this week including literary recluses, war books, and more. Read on to check out top 10s, interviews, and book recommendations.
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~ In Under the Cover, Mary Theresa Kelly (On Mockingbird Hill, Caitlin Press) shares memories of her time spent in the mountain foothills of Alberta with a group of fire lookout observers: “Only one person in each couple had the fire lookout job but we all cultivated the fire-lookout lifestyle. Transcendental meditation, Jung’s dream analysis, vegetarian cooking, the books of Jack Kerouac, and the music of Brian Eno.” ~ We interviewed Claude Lalumière about his latest mosaic novel, Venera Dreams (Guernica Editions), his influences, and one stand-out moment that helped him become a writer: “It had never occurred to me before that moment that, if I wanted, I could write the kind of stories that I would like to see in the world. I didn’t start to write quite yet, but a slow-burning fire had been ignited.”~ We compared the life and work of two literary recluses: J.D. Salinger and Norman Levine in If You Liked x, Read y.~ We rounded up a list of top 10 emotional war books for Remembrance Day.
Mandy is reading BookThug’s The Videofag Book edited by Jordan Tannahill and William Ellis, which chronicles the four years Videofag served as a counterculture space for artists.Â
