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May 27, 2009
Ruth the Reckless
reck (rěk)1. to have care, concern, or regard2. to take heed or to have cautionWhat intrigues! What Machiavellian plots! What underhand dealings!Who would have believed that electing a new Professor ...
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September 14, 2021Read an Excerpt from The Shaytan Bride, Sumaiya Matin's Powerful True Story of Escaping Forced Marriage
As a small child, Sumaiya Matin had heard about the Shaytan Bride. A woman with something wrong with her. Maybe she was crazy, or defiant. Or maybe she was possessed, trapped or seduced by an evil spirit ...
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August 10, 2021Guelph MFA Grads Simone Dalton and D.M. Bradford on Family, Loss, Writing, and Community (Part 2 of 2)
Last week we hosted the first half of an in-depth conversation between recent University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA alums Simone Dalton, an author and playwright, and D.M. Bradford, a poet and ...
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August 21, 2025Francis Dupuis-Déri Explores an Infamous Crime that Haunts Academia in KILLER ALTHUSSER: THE BANALITY OF MEN
Today we feature a book that explores a shocking true cime story, and one that remains as troublesome and telling some forty years after the act. in November 1980, the world-famous Marxist philosopher ...
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January 30, 2017Exit Interview
For my last interview, I thought I'd turn the tables and ask someone else to interview me. Since he was also in the midst of leaving a position (admittedly one of much vaster scale), I sent my books ...
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July 05, 2012Filling in the Blanks: Photography, Inspiration and Max Dean’s Albums
I have an album. It isn’t mine, but I am taking care of it. For how long, I’m not sure. I’m not even sure for whom.The album tells a story, but the narrative is fragmented. It’s set in the US ...
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April 28, 2016"We're All Teachers," an Interview With Michael Fraser
Michael Fraser is a high school teacher and author of two collections of poetry, The Serenity of Stone, and, most recently, To Greet Yourself Arriving. If you attended NOW Magazine’s Battle of the Bards ...
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September 27, 2016The WAR Interview Series: Writers as Readers with Kate Sutherland
Kate Sutherland can do it all – she's a lawyer, a scholar, a prose writer, and now she is adding poet to her list of achievements. Her debut collection, How to Draw a Rhinoceros (BookThug), is suitably ...
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March 13, 2018"Titles are Chameleon in Nature" - Dani Couture on Poetry, Titles, & the Power of a Single Word
Dani Couture's fourth full length collection of poetry, Listen Before Transmit (Wolsak & Wynn), plunges readers into the unmistakable poetic voice that has earned Couture numerous honours during ...
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September 18, 2018"I Will Always Feel a Little Homesick" Poet Jenny Haysom on Writing the Wayside
Have you ever wondered what that strip at the edge of the highway is called - the one that divides the road from the land, often filled with wildflowers and milkweed? It's a wayside, and the term makes ...
