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Sally Rooney’s Millennial Voice
Sally Rooney, Ireland’s newest literary sensation, is widely regarded as the first great millennial novelist for her stories of love in the era of late capitalism. Born in 1991, Rooney is often called the voice of her generation, the J.D. Salinger of the Snapchat...
Boomerang
If we care enough to know what is happening in our world by following our daily news and examining different sources, we witness, and we learn: Africa is burning; Iraq is shattered; Syria is bleeding; uprisings and oppressions here and there in different parts of our...
Endarkenment and Release: Leonard Cohen’s You Want It Darker. (ATV Music Publishing, Nashville, 2016)
One of my favourite poets, John Keats, wrote in his letters about what he called “Negative Capability,” a state where humans are “capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason” (letter to his brothers, Dec....
Rose Tremain: A Writer’s Sacred Country
Gail Benick, author of The Girl Who Was Born That Way, writes about British writer Rose Tremain: her works, her insights, and her struggles. Highly regarded in Great Britain, the writer Rose Tremain has yet to achieve literary stardom in North America. How odd!...
Art, Action – Transformation
Susan McCaslin, author of "Into the Open: New and Selected", collaborates with a fellow poet from London, Ontario, Penn Kemp on the subject of art and activism, and how art has united with activism in their lives. The blog entry has a tripartite structure: the...
The “cover art” story
Heidi Greco, author of "Practical Anxiety" writes about the artwork for her new book cover, and the image that served as a touchstone for the poems that would eventually fill the pages of the then-manuscript One of the meanings of the term ‘cover story’ suggests a...