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Six Degrees of Lisa Moore

By David Adler • Jul 18th, 2008 • Category: Advice, On Writing

There are six Margaret Atwoods on Facebook. Only three have profile pictures. One’s a picture of a duck; its Atwood goes to Lyndhurst High School in New Jersey. It’s not the right Atwood. I called Lyndhurst just to check. “You have a student registered there named Margaret Atwood?” “Yes.” “Is she Canadian; about seventy, seventy-five?” [...]


Mordecai Richler: Leaving St. Urbain, Reinhold Kramer

By Darryl Whetter • Jun 12th, 2008 • Category: Book Reviews

In his first book, Booker Prize winner Yann Martel argues, “People who don’t share the same poetics can’t be real friends.” In his character’s example, to not like Neil Armstrong or the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins is to not like the character. In Canadian letters, Mordecai Richler is equally divisive. He’s loved or hated, [...]