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Gerard Beirne
July 21, 2015 10:16 AM
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Gerard Beirne
July 19, 2015 10:48 AM
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Generally speaking, I am of the belief that one should know as little about a book as possible before one begins reading.
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Gerard Beirne
July 19, 2015 10:46 AM
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David Adams Richards was a great friend of fellow poet and Atlantic Canadian Eric Trethewey, who died last September.
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Gerard Beirne
July 19, 2015 10:43 AM
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In approaching my Q&A with RM VAUGHAN, I lifted some questions from a 'self-interview' article that appeared as "Nocturanal Turnings" in Truman Capote's Music for Chameleons, in part because I ...
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Gerard Beirne
July 9, 2015 3:07 PM
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Where will you find your next page-turner?
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Gerard Beirne
July 9, 2015 2:41 PM
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I always enjoy reading Ray’s novels and short stories and this book is no exception. It is one of his earlier works and his characters Walt Macbride and his friend Sully will be familiar to his longtime readers.
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Gerard Beirne
July 7, 2015 9:16 PM
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July 7, 2015 1:10 PM
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Mary Dyer has come down through almost 400 years of history with two signifiers. She left her children to become a Quaker and she was the “mother of a monster.” “I wanted to save her from that and put her back in the historical record and say this is unfair,” says New England-born writer Beth Powning.
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Gerard Beirne
July 7, 2015 7:56 AM
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Gray is deconstructing the weight-bearing walls of the Western canon, subverting its appeal, questioning its meaning. Homer and Joyce and Christ himself are fair game...
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Gerard Beirne
July 6, 2015 2:36 PM
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Gerard Beirne
July 4, 2015 9:36 AM
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The Malahat Review, established in 1967, is among Canada’s leading literary journals. Published quarterly, it features contemporary Canadian and international and contemporary works of poetry and fiction as well as reviews of recently published Canadian poetry, fiction and literary non-fiction.
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Gerard Beirne
July 1, 2015 11:37 AM
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Gerard Beirne
June 27, 2015 11:00 AM
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The Malahat Review, established in 1967, is among Canada’s leading literary journals. Published quarterly, it features contemporary Canadian and international and contemporary works of poetry and fiction as well as reviews of recently published Canadian poetry, fiction and literary non-fiction.
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Gerard Beirne
July 19, 2015 8:45 PM
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[caption id=attachment_8194 align=alignright width=400] Ray Fraser[/caption]
by James M. Fisher, The Miramichi Reader
Raymond Fraser of Chatham is a Canadian author of novels, biographies as well as poetry. In 2012, he was made a member of the Order of New Brunswick for his contributions to literature and New Brunswick’s cultural life. He has also received the Lieutenant-Governor’s Award for High Achievement in the Arts for English Language Literary Arts. His most recent novel Seasons of Disco
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Gerard Beirne
July 19, 2015 10:48 AM
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July 19, 2015 10:44 AM
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Gerard Beirne
July 17, 2015 9:43 PM
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Three Million Acres of Flame (2007, Dundurn Press) is a historical novel by Miramichi author Valerie Sherrard. It tells the story of young Skye Haverill and her family and friends against the backd...
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Gerard Beirne
July 9, 2015 2:41 PM
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‘Think of life as the fun between heart attacks,” remarks the protagonist in Mark Anthony Jarman’s latest fiction, a collection of 12 interrelated short stories.
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Gerard Beirne
July 9, 2015 10:51 AM
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A poet-critic dusts off a small library’s poetry section—and turns up a gem or two
by Danny Jacobs
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Gerard Beirne
July 7, 2015 5:55 PM
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Gerard Beirne
July 7, 2015 9:57 AM
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I keep thinking all our struggles come from trying to paint over, alter, make the world the way we want to see it, instead of the way it is.
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Gerard Beirne
July 6, 2015 2:40 PM
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Northrop Frye's life and letters have become a kind of academic cottage industry, but does his work have any real currency in understanding contemporary literature?
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Gerard Beirne
July 5, 2015 10:33 AM
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This story concerns three 'quintessential almost thirteen year olds' Zoey, Jenna and Bean who, after scarfing down a huge meal of pizza, garlic cheese fingers, Caesar salad, a dozen buffalo wings (...
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Gerard Beirne
July 3, 2015 1:32 PM
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Insomnia and Its Cultures
By
RM Vaughan
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Gerard Beirne
June 29, 2015 8:31 PM
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