Bronwyn Averett

  • The Magic of “The Library at Night”

    Simply walking into the Grande Bibliothèque in Montreal is a terrifically inspiring experience. The combination of soaring windows, reading nooks, and six floors to browse through is enough to get anyone excited about literature. But one of the library’s greatest features is the basement exhibition space that has housed some truly terrific works in recent years. Their latest undertaking, Read more

  • Helen Phillips’ The Beautiful Bureaucrat

    That is, until she finds a job entering data from the confines of a depressing, grey, entirely secluded office. Read more

  • Review: Taduno’s Song by Odafe Atogun

    A wholly engrossing, impressive debut by a writer who has taken the force of multiple influences and wielded them with an uncommon grace and lightness. Read more

  • Fiction Unbound: On Rebecca Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost

    For someone who has written so eloquently about the creation of Frankenstein you would have to expect Solnit to know, all too well, that you cannot piece together a series of abstract ideas, assemble them, and call it a character. Read more

  • Reading Notes: The Creative Tarot by Jessa Crispin

    Probably most well-known as the editor and founder of (the alas, soon to be former) Bookslut.com and of Spoliamag.com, Jessa Crispin also reads tarot cards for artists of all sorts. In this book, she provides a very useful history on the practice and goes through the deck in a way similar to most volumes on tarot, Read more

  • Review: Elnathan John’s Born on a Tuesday

    Set in the world of violent conflict arising from divisive attempts by sectarian splinter groups to define and put into practice a fundamentalist form of Islam, Elnathan John’s Born on a Tuesday (Grove Press) can feel all too familiar at times. It echoes the news of kidnapped schoolgirls and the profiles of young men who leave their homes Read more