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Books are my life so this is my outlet. Here I share my obsession with fiction, literary journals and a bit of non-fiction. Things may be approached from a Jamaican-lost-in-Canada perspective. Bring your silly hat, perch it on your curious brain & relax.
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It’s a civic holiday in glorious Ontario, Canada. (My roommates and I have no idea what we’re supposed to be celebrating, except summer weather and Tim Horton’s ice caps, maybe.) The...
Momentary Obsessions
Click on images Is it bright where you are? (Google translate for link) Music: “Absence” from Les Nuits d’Été Op. 7 by Hector Belioz, lyrics by Théophile Gautier Mezzo-soprano: ...
For all you Ishiguro fans
Here are some vague details on what could possibly, maybe be his new book. At this point in the piece he and the interviewer discuss whether Ishiguro truly has “chameleon-like” story telli...
Two things
Colin Burrow’s contribution to this year’s Lady Margaret Lectures on Milton at Cambridge U is now available as a podcast (finally!). Entitled “Milton’s Singularity” it ev...
Celebrating Milton’s 400
While Dorothy W.’s post Reading biographically reminded how little use I have for biographers and their books I do enjoy a nice, short interview that gives me the highlights. Sarah Crown intervi...
Interviews galore
I am always on the look out for more worthwhile literary sites that take me to places I always wanted to go to or make me think about things I’d yet to consider. And to find out about more books...
An obsessive intellectual project
INTERVIEWER For some of your novels, you’ve adopted an intellectual project — usually a poet whose work you read obsessively and integrate into the book. In Rouse Up O Young Men of the New...
*This festal day, twenty-four times returning
Hello, hello. I’m a year older, today. Isn’t that something? I have a Pakistani friend who, of the same age, is warding off her parents who are busily trying to wrangle her into an arrange...
Elizabeth Hardwick, Writer, Dies at 91
“I have always written essays as if they were examples of imaginative writing, as I believe them to be,” she once wrote in an autobiographical sketch. Elizabeth Hardwick: News and Reviews from the...
The bull in a china shop
Geoffrey O’Brien: Traditional Japanese literature operates within a network of illusions both literary and historical. Your books have a similar allusiveness, but the allusions are more often to...
The distance between wise-caracking and wit
INTERVIEWER\nYou have an extensive reputation as a wit. Has this interfered, do you think, with your acceptance as a serious writer?\n \nPARKER\nI don’t want to be classed as a humorist. It...
Foolish and dangerous critics
I thought this would be an interesting excerpt in light of the posts I’ve been doing recently on so-called “obscene” novels. It features one of the longest questions I’ve ever ...
A real metaphor's resonance
INTERVIEWER But that's not something you intend to show: the degeneration of the world by the metaphorical use of colour? BORGES I don't intend to show anything. (Laughter) I have no intentions...