…Gabriel Urza is the author of All That Followed, a novel about a politically-charged act of violence that echoes through a small Spanish town. He received his MFA from the Ohio State University. He is currently a Miriam Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada Las Vegas and teaches creative writing in the MFA program at Portland State University. …
…or Brontë’s ill-fated schoolgirl Helen and Livesey’s ill-fated schoolgirl Miriam. But such comparisons are unnecessary when taking in The Flight of Gemma Hardy, and looking for them instead of letting Livesey’s tale live on its own merely distracts from it. The book’s eponymous heroine Gemma, orphaned spawn of a Scottish mother and an Icelandic father, is in trouble from the start. Thrust into her aunt’s protection when her beloved uncle dies, sh…
…New Yorker. What a fresh story! Who can “make it new” after more than a dozen collections? Alice Munro, that’s who. Aryn Kyle / copyright Miriam Berkley Alice Munro / copyright Derek Shapton…
…s to fabulous lit-blogger Bibliobibuli for the news and links….
…or Brontë’s ill-fated schoolgirl Helen and Livesey’s ill-fated schoolgirl Miriam. But such comparisons are unnecessary when taking in The Flight of Gemma Hardy, and looking for them instead of letting Livesey’s tale live on its own merely distracts from it. Wingate continues: The book’s eponymous heroine Gemma, orphaned spawn of a Scottish mother and an Icelandic father, is in trouble from the start. Thrust into her aunt’s protection when her bel…
…e. Not every dark corner of the forest hides a wolf. This book, not unlike Miriam Toews’ The Flying Troutmans, reveals the flip-side of an idyllic childhood. When children face a single parent with a mental illness, disaster can result. But Watson’s novel argues that resilience–and human kindness–are equally strong forces at work. In the outside world, Asta still misses the magic of her former life, the dark fairytale quality of their home togethe…
…public, the president and his contender, Matthew and Patrick, Reprobus and Miriam. She feels—the world feels—split down the center. This doubling encourages us to see how the lycan resistance and the U.S. government are alike. The government has committed atrocities on a large scale over a long period of time, and the lycan terrorists have committed hideously short spats of terror. It becomes difficult to sympathize with either one, and in that wa…
