The first time I met a real writer – a poet – I wanted to be just like him. Not...
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A Bad Singer Playlist—Guest Post by Tim Falconer
“Writing about music,” Martin Mull quipped, “is like dancing about architecture.” Part of the problem, of course, is that the...
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The ultimate anti-hero, and yet a literary idol of mine: Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith hated her mother. And dogs. (I can hear you gasping. Who hates dogs? Nobody hates dogs! Well, Patricia...
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Writing: The Early Years – Guest Post by Nazneen Sheikh
Somewhere in the mid-eighties I had a prescribed and sweet life. I was raising two little girls, playing two hours...
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Things About Canada: Claire Fuller Remembers 1982 Montreal
Me and Karen In the summer of 1982, when I was fifteen, I went on an exchange with a girl...
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The Best Mother’s Day: Being Present — Guest post by Lynn Thomson
For the last five years I’ve spent Mother’s Day birdwatching with my teenaged son, Yeats. We drive to Point Pelee...
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