Posts Tagged ‘Alice Munro’
Saying goodbye to my friend Victor Ramraj
Earlier this month at King’s College in Nova Scotia, one of my grad-student writers, a woman who had spent some years in Kenya, pointed to a passage in one of my Arctic books and said: “Did you study postcolonial theory?” I took a beat and said, “No, but you’re right. The influence is there. My…
Read MoreDeparture Day: Ocean-to-Ocean with 50 Canadians
Later today, Sheena and I embark on a VIA-Rail journey that will extend from ocean to ocean, Pacific to Atlantic, Toronto to Vancouver to Halifax. The above photo, shot a couple of weeks back, finds us on the east coast of Orkney with the North Sea behind us. But the North Sea adjoins the Atlantic,…
Read MoreAlice Munro, the Toronto Star, and the bookshop ghettos of Canadiana
We were moving in the same direction. Today’s lead editorial in the Toronto Star noted that “as Thomas Hardy did with Dorset, and William Faulkner did with Yoknapatawpha County, [Alice] Munro chronicled and mythologized her corner of southwestern Ontario.” In 50 Canadians Who Changed the World, coming next week, I put it this way:”When readers…
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