Myrna Kostash
Myrna Kostash lives in Edmonton when she's not traveling in Eastern Europe.
An Interview with Jenny Mastoraki
Myrna Kostash pulls a 1982 Interview with Greek poet and translator Jenny Mastoraki from the memory vault. We think its worth publishing.
Read MoreLetter from Macedonia
Myrna Kostash delivers her account of Macedonia. She’s now back in Canada.
Read MoreLetter from Sofia, Bulgaria, October, 2011
When I travelled through eastern/south-eastern Europe in the 1980s – this would result in the book Bloodlines in 1993 – I did not go to Bulgaria, quite deliberately. Among other things at the time, I was trying to situate my Slavic origins in Slavic histories in Europe, especially in those places as in…
Read MoreLetter from Sofia, Bulgaria, September 30, 2011
Myrna Kostash files her second travel report, this time from Sofia, Bulgaria. The first report, from Serbia, is in the archive..
Read MoreLetter from Serbia September 2011
Myrna Kostash posts the first in a series of accounts of her travels in Southeastern Europe
Read MoreShocking Protestants
Myrna Kostash files a unique look at English History
Read MoreWriting Nonfiction in Canada: A Manifesto
Longtime dooneyscafe.com foreign correspondant Myrna Kostash, this time from her Edmonton home base, wonders why nonfiction isn’t taken seriously in Canada, and has some disturbing conclusions.
Read MoreA Non-Fiction Writer’s Holiday
Myrna Kostash tries to have a throught-free holiday in Europe, and fails miserably–and interestingly.
Read MoreAMERICANS MADE ME DO IT
Myrna Kostash revisits an article about SDS in Boston around 1972 and discovers that it was about how she was about to become a Canadian
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