Podcast with NeWest Press
I joined NeWest Press Audio to talk about The Broken Places.
In praise of dreamy design
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.
To cry, to laugh
Long, long ago (1986), in a kingdom far, far away (Wolfville, NS), I wrote my Honours BA thesis on Thomas Hardy.
When art gets its hooks in you
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.
On earthquakes and broken places
As I write this, in August 2021 in British Columbia, wildfires are ravaging the drought-ridden BC interior.
Where does the title come from?
“The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places.”
—Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
How I came to write The Broken Places
What if a major earthquake struck right now? What would it look like and feel like to me, up here on my own?