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  • Banner image with photo of author Shawna Lemay sitting on a dark coloured chair in a room with a wood floor. Text reads interview with Shawna Lemay. Author of Apples on a Windowsill. Open Book logo bottom left.
    Banner image with photo of author Shawna Lemay sitting on a dark coloured chair in a room with a wood floor. Text reads interview with Shawna Lemay. Author of Apples on a Windowsill. Open Book logo bottom left.
    January 08, 2024

    Shawna Lemay Uses the Still Life Form to Explore Marriage, Beauty, and Time in Her New Essays

    The still life is one of visual art's most enduring forms. From Picasso's revolutionary relief constructions to Van Gogh's iconic sunflowers, it is an artistic experiment that has been embraced, reimagined, ...

  • Getting to Know Shawna Lemay, Whose New Novel Explores Secrets, Belief, and Women's Connections
    Getting to Know Shawna Lemay, Whose New Novel Explores Secrets, Belief, and Women's Connections
    November 15, 2021

    Getting to Know Shawna Lemay, Whose New Novel Explores Secrets, Belief, and Women's Connections

    In Shawna Lemay's Everything Affects Everyone (Palimpsest Press), Xaviere is left a strange gift when her dear friend Daphne passes away and, in her will, requests that Xaviere transcribe a series ...

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