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A Blog About Books and Reading
“I wanted to examine alternatives to framing narratives about sexual exploitation and violent crime,” says the author about her two linked novellas.
A two-day program on June 17 and 18 celebrates the work of the late American Nobel Prize winner as well as highlighting the importance of Black women's writing.
“Partisan loyalty is socially disastrous; but for individuals it can be richly rewarding.”
The new online publication is a multimedia endeavour aimed at opening the doors to younger and marginalized writers struggling to get a toehold in the publishing world.
Timid is not a word anyone would reach for to describe Blais’s fiction, and especially her early work, which remains as shocking and defiant today as when it first appeared.
Horror doesn’t gel with those who’ve propped up CanLit respectability – that is, chiefly cishet, nondisabled white people, Pottle writes.
“I think I see life in very, very noir terms,” says the author, who considered quitting after finishing work on her latest novel.
A pugilistic, self-absorbed author, a scandal-mired biographer, and a disillusioned scholar. What could possibly go wrong?
The recent ruling declared that the copyright collective does not have standing to sue, and punted on the matter of fair dealing.
The manuscript, deemed by the French government a national treasure, is one of the most controversial and frequently banned works ever published.