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Jean Baird does the 1978 Booker nominees, and talks to Paul Quarrington. George Bowering is watching television.
Delayed by the summer holidays, Jean Baird uploads her analysis of 1977. We’re going to move a little faster through the years from here.
Gordon Lockheed conducts an electronic Interview with Terry Rigelhof about the work of Anne Michaels and Michael Ondaatje, and their relative absence from Hooked on Canadian Books: The Good, the Better and the Best Canadian Novels since 1984
Jean Baird posts 1976 in her Booker Prize Analysis
Norbert Ruebsaat files a remarkable report on what it’s like to be German amongst the aboriginal and other native peoples on Canada’s West Coast.
1975 I’ve been at this project now for months, reading the shortlisted and winning books. In order to meet the demands of a prize that requires reading 100 or more books, considering the time allotted, jurors must be reading 5 or more books a week. I’m not convinced that is possible—or desirable. How do judges…
My oldest friend, Don White, forwarded an obituary to me from the Prince George Citizen the other day. It was for Butch Nielsen, a man both of us were equally close to in our formative last two years of high school and for a few years after that. Butch and I were similar in several…
Ashes over Europe, ashes under Europe. From the skies of the continent to the burial grounds of Poland.
No, you can’t make this stuff up department.
Margaret Randall at the wall in the desert.