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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Breaking news: Three Canadians on Man Booker Prize Longlist
The Vancouver Sun and numerous other sources are reporting that the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction longlist includes three Canadians: Patrick Dewitt for The Sisters Brothers NYTimes Review of The Sisters Brothers Esi Edugyan for Half Blood Blues Quill … Continue reading
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Micro-trends in Recent Canadian Fiction
Micro-trends in Recent Canadian Fiction by: Kerry Riley Photo by: Kerry Riley 2011 It’s only three weeks into the summer Canlit read-fest and already some interesting threads and connections are developing. As I have explored (or gone on about, depending … Continue reading
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Toews, Miriam: Irma Voth Part III: Existentialism Redux
Toews, Miriam: Irma Voth Part III: Existentialism Redux PartI Part II by: Kerry Riley When asked, in an interview with Rob Mclennan, whether she addresses larger concerns in her writing, Miriam Toews indicated, in her self-deprecating, Toewsian way, that she was always … Continue reading
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Toews, Miriam: Irma Voth
Miriam Toews: Irma Voth Knopf Canada, 2011 Hardcover, 255 pages Review by: Kerry Riley Part II In her new novel, Irma Voth, Miriam Toews returns to familiar territory, using a Mennonite upbringing as a backdrop upon which to illuminate the … Continue reading
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Tagged Canadian literature, Canlit, Irma Voth, Kerry Riley, Kerryoncanlit, Miriam Toews, new Canadian fiction
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Kerry On Can Lit 
e-chill
It happened yesterday. My first e-chill. On a routine login to my favourite on-line book source (necessitated, I might add, because my local bookstore has closed) I was horrified to discover that the book I wanted was only available as … Continue reading →