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Do we dare award a prize?
By Charlotte Harrison
Posted: 07/11/2012
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No Pulitzer Fiction prize was awarded this year. What does that mean for readers and writers?
Mark Twain and a mysterious penis
By Melissa Krone
Posted: 07/09/2012
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The first edition of Huckleberry Finn was supposed to be released by Christmas of 1884. Unfortunately, someone drew a penis on one of the illustrations.
Judging books by their backsides
By Symon Jory Stevens-Guille
Posted: 05/31/2012
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An unfortunate disease ravages most of the literary world. Pick up a book and scan its back cover. You’ll likely find a confusing, unfortunate selection of mismatched phrases and swelling pomp.
Signed, sealed, delivered I’m yours
By Pamela Mulloy
Posted: 03/09/2012
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My husband came back from an afternoon forage through a second hand book store and announced that he’d come across a book he’d donated to a local charity after a recent purge. The book was now listed as a UK first edition for twenty dollars. The book, by Henry Miller, was purchased in Guildford, England in 1991, which my husband duly noted in the...
On Poetry & Thanksgiving
By Kim Jernigan
Posted: 10/13/2011
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Reading like a mother
By Rosalynn Tyo
Posted: 10/07/2011
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…is the name of my new blog, which is about—yes, you guessed it—what I’m reading these days, and how. I do hope you’ll drop in sometime when you’re done catching up with the New Quarterly crew here.
My first Haliburton society meeting: poetry, wine, & cheese.
By Symon Jory Stevens-Guille
Posted: 10/05/2011
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Not long ago, I was witness to the premier gathering in Halifax where literature flaps its gums and flails its tongue. What I mean to say is that I attended this year’s first meeting of the Haliburton Society. I had infiltrated a secret meeting of gown-wearing students, some of them dressed curiously in an attempted imitation of great writers.
Bedtime Stories
By Rosalynn Tyo
Posted: 08/22/2011
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Before she was born, I often daydreamed about afternoons spent cuddling with my daughter on the couch and reading her stories. Thus far, this is one of many (oh, so many) such dreams that reality has not borne out. In the daytime, unless she’s super tired or under the weather, Chelsea is way too busy to cuddle. She’s got her toes to chew,...
Harry Potter and the Nerd who is Catherine
By Catherine Muss
Posted: 07/24/2011
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Copernicus Avenue
By Melissa Krone
Posted: 03/09/2011
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If you loved Andrew Borkowski's story, "Babagaya", in the current issue (#117) of TNQ, you may be interested to know that it has been included in his brand new collection of short stories, Copernicus Avenue, published by Cormorant Books.
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