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  • Reading Notes: Rivka Galchen’s American Innovations

    Rivka Galchen: Canadian-born, Oklahoma-raised, New York City-dwelling author of a novel (Atmospheric Disturbances), a collection of stories (American Innovations) and the forthcoming Little Labors (New Directions, 17 May 2016). Her style is something of the whimsically eerie and she is one of those great writer’s writers who likes to be fairly clear (while also a […]

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    April 30, 2016
    Notes
    Gender
  • The 18th Edition of Montreal’s Blue Metropolis Festival

    The sun is shining, the snow has melted, and Blue Metropolis just announced their 2016 program. Spring has come to Montreal! For those not familiar, Blue Met is the annual literary festival of the Blue Metropolis Foundation, which has been bringing people together in Montreal since 1997 to promote reading, writing, and education, focusing on […]

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    March 23, 2016
    Happenings
    Blue Metropolis, Montréal
  • Mad Men en français, or Why Sally Draper is Really Important

      A friend once described watching the AMC series Mad Men as an experience akin to reading well crafted postwar American short fiction. I thought that was a little excessive until I actually watched the show, which is exactly like well crafted postwar American short fiction. That’s not usually my jam. But the accessories are amazing and accessories […]

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    March 15, 2016
    Other thinks
    French, television
  • Sigal Samuel’s Hermeneutics

    In Sigal Samuel’s recent novel The Mystics of Mile End everyone is looking for a message. There’s the Meyer family, with David interpreting the vague murmurs of his erratic heart; his son Lev deciphering the flower caught in his teacher’s bicycle; and his daughter Samara seeking keys to climb the Tree of Life in order to fulfill her Kabbalistic journey. Lev and Samara’s […]

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    February 27, 2016
    Critical Essays
    academia, Barthes, Montréal, religion
  • The Office Retirement Party

    In the early days, people asked us questions like how long we would take off from work and had we researched daycares in the area. Had we read about attachment parenting? Would we let our baby cry it out? But other recent parents asked nothing about parenting at all. Instead, they asked us which television series […]

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    February 20, 2016
    Other thinks
    motherhood, television
  • How to Feel Like a Visitor in Your Everyday World

    Guys, we need to talk about Leena Krohn. As a longtime fan of Tove Jansson (creator of the Moomins) and Aki Kaurasmaki (go check out the Proletariat Trilogy and Le Havre right now), I was curious to see what other weird-and-wonderfuls Finland had to offer. Turns out, Finland has so much to offer and we’re just waiting […]

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    February 7, 2016
    Reviews
    Finland
  • “Colours of Jazz” and Immigration in the 1920’s

    It is interesting the way stories about art are told. In fact, I will just wallow in my obtuseness for a moment and say that, while I like to look at pretty things (and sometimes not-so-pretty-but-sort-of-interesting things), the stories are what interest me the most. My tendency at exhibits is to ogle the writing on the […]

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    January 31, 2016
    Happenings
    Canadian Art, Montréal
  • On Blessing Someone’s Heart

    The thing about deep cultural knowledge is that you don’t realize you have it until a piece of your culture gets appropriated. I have never considered myself particularly Southern, at least in the way that people take ‘Southern’ to mean. I do not frequently use y’all. When I ask for a Coke I do not mean some other […]

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    January 21, 2016
    Other thinks
    ramblings, The South
  • Merry Christmas Introverts – Grab a Book

    Introverts have been receiving a lot of attention (ironic, no?) since Susan Cain’s book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking came out in 2012. It was kind of a thing. In fact, it was a ‘revolution’.* My internet world suddenly became filled with everything from “The Introvert’s Guide to Shoe Shopping” to […]

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    December 25, 2015
    Other thinks
  • How to Become World Literate

    What “world” are we talking about when we talk about “world literature”? We know it when we see it. It’s not France. It is definitely Africa. It might be Russia. But what about Finland? Or Puerto Rico? And what “literature” are we talking about? Do folktales count? Are comic books literature? What about religious texts? […]

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    December 19, 2015
    Other thinks
    World Lit
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