In writing about writing, I’ve recently reviewed Paper Shadows by Dominique Fortier (Trans. Rhonda Mullins) for The Malahat Review; it’s in their new winter issue.
In reading about writing, I am enjoying river in an ocean: essays in translation (published by trace press).
In reading about reading, I’m properly reading through George Saunders’ A Swim in the Pond in the Rain.
And, in writing about reading, I’m researching E.L. Konigsburg, whose From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler sparked many daydreams about being able to live undetected in a museum.
In the daytime, it’s February. The grey museum auditorium steams with wet coats and the slush melting from winter boots. There’s a lot of coughing.
Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
I don’t seem to be getting notifications, but with a half hour to spare I thought I’d check to see what I missed. Loved the way you captured the atmosphere in The Beauty of Us – there were resonances with Gurnah’s After Lives, which I am currently reading, when a narrator in a new town finds himself in the midst of competing calls to prayer.
I didn’t get a notification about your comment either: too bad internet, we see through your shenangans!
Thank you kindly. I’m looking foward to seeing where you spotted some connections.