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  • Our Lives of No Interest: the Compulsion to Confess
    Our Lives of No Interest: the Compulsion to Confess
    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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