Podcast with NeWest Press
I joined NeWest Press Audio to talk about The Broken Places.
When I heard that Natalie Olsen, designer of the sumptuous Short Story Advent Calendar, would design my book, I danced a jig of joy. Olsen’s dreamy creations make book lovers swoon.
Long, long ago (1986), in a kingdom far, far away (Wolfville, NS), I wrote my Honours BA thesis on Thomas Hardy.
The other night, at the suggestion of my brother-in-law in Ottawa, perhaps the best recommender of music, books, and movies that I know, I watched the 2018 film The Miseducation of Cameron Post.
As I write this, in August 2021 in British Columbia, wildfires are ravaging the drought-ridden BC interior.
“The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places.”
—Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
What if a major earthquake struck right now? What would it look like and feel like to me, up here on my own?