Interview… Q&A – Douglas Stuart 20 Apr 2022 It seems so long ago, but in the spring of 2020, I read Douglas Stuart’s debut novel, Shuggie Bain. My immediate impression was that I’d stumbled upon one of the…
Lists… Five Books You Might Have Missed in 2015 14 Oct 201626 Oct 2016 One of the unfortunate realities of literary marketing is that so many books, once they pass their initial window of newness, get swept offstage and forgotten. Even with music this…
Lists… Five Literary Loves of 2015 30 Dec 20154 Jan 2016 Elizabeth Harrower A Few Days in the Country and Other Stories is a book that almost never happened. If not for the efforts of Text publisher Michael Heyward (a much-admired…
Lists Five Literary Loves from 2013 6 Dec 201317 Jan 2014 Everyone needs a year-end list. Instead of a Best Books-type arrangement, here are five things I loved in the literary world in 2013. 1) Text Publishing Several years ago, I…
Recommended Gerald Murnane and Music & Literature 5 Oct 201317 Jan 2014 Issue 3 of Music & Literature is out, I am not the first to note, but I had waited to clear other obligations before sitting down to read it. You…