Brecken Hancock Writers in Residence Archives

Our Interview with Brecken

July 04, 2014

Our Lives of No Interest: the Compulsion to Confess

In middle age there is a mystery, there is mystification. The most I can make out of this hour is a kind of loneliness. Even the beauty of the visible world seems to crumble, yes even love. I feel that ...
June 30, 2014

The Dirty Dozen, with Brecken Hancock

June 30, 2014 - Brecken Hancock is Open Book: Toronto's July 2014 writer-in-residence. Get to know her by checking out her edition of our Dirty Dozen interview series!Broom Broom (Coach House Books), ...

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