Commonplace #5

1 Jul 20171 Jul 2017

What Those Women Knew To remember those feelings is to create them, to invite them to enter the body and to narrate their materiality, to image them to silent music…

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…

Madeleine St. John’s The Women in Black

8 Aug 201317 Jan 2014

Some time ago I was teaching a short fiction workshop. The texts for the class included stories by Gina Berriault, Edward P. Jones and Mavis Gallant, among others. These were…