Revelations that Alice Munro stayed with the man who sexually assaulted her nine-year-old daughter force a reckoning with the Nobel prize winner and her art
The article in the Star is heartbreaking.
Short story month 2024: Alice Munro, Nobel Prize winner and giant of the short story, dies at 92
One need only read a few sentences of Munro's writing to understand that one is in the presence of literary genius.
Paul Auster, Brooklyn’s postmodernist par excellence, dies at 77
Auster has been called many things: "the most meta of metafictional writers," "the patron saint of literary Brooklyn," a "literary superstar."
David Leonard takes the helm as executive director at the Writers’ Trust
"We have to think of writers and books as not just writers and books," Leonard says.
“That crooked Métis fiddle style”: Michelle Porter discusses the family history and cultural reclamation that went into the creation of her first novel, A Grandmother Begins the Story
The interconnections between the various voices is essential to Porter's approach in the novel.
Fail better: Stephen Marche on the one constant in a writer’s life
Failure is inevitable because perfection is unattainable.
Around the web: Standing up for morally ambiguous characters, a romance novelist fakes her own death, RIP Russell Banks, and more
Heading into 2023, it appears that inflation, which is being felt particularly where hardcovers are concerned, has booksellers nervous about purchasing patterns over the coming months.
With “The Heart of a Pig,” novelist and book columnist James Grainger resurrects the serial format
Grainger's horror Substack, The Veil, is parcelling out the longish story in several instalments.
Canadian government extends copyright term, but loses the plot
The extension of the copyright term by twenty years – or fifty, or one hundred years – is meaningless if educational institutions remain free to pillage copyright works with impunity.
The loss of Bookforum makes a tough environment for longform book criticism even tougher
The loss represents another in the death of a thousand cuts that is unfolding in the arena of print journals and magazines.