Archive for March, 2012
Against The Clock at The National Post
“In our hyper-consumptive culture we value volume, the word prolific a complimentary ideal attached to a bursting bio. We fetishize endless bibliographies — books are misguidedly rushed out, memoirs announced in the weeks after death, star writers pulling together a haphazard manuscript because of an award or scandal-induced media moment. Long-awaited […]
Posted: March 9th, 2012 under New Published Work, The National Post.
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Review of Web of Angels at Quill and Quire
“The facts of tragedy can be offensively clean and unadorned. I learned this a few days before Christmas, when a friend charged me with the task of disseminating the information that someone she knew had committed suicide. Each email I wrote and call I made was cold and direct: a chronological, […]
Posted: March 9th, 2012 under New Published Work.
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