Category: Books
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Keeping the Inmates at Bay: Defining Done
John Irving, whose A Prayer for Owen Meany would probably be my choice for greatest American novel of the 20th century, swears he knows the last sentence of every book he’s written before he starts writing. The book works better if I know everything I can about the ending. Not just what happens, but how…
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The Epic is Made Up of the Tiny
If you haven’t read Colum McCann’s novel Let the Great World Spin, I highly recommend you do. It’s one of my favourite finds of the last ten years. I’d lend you my copy, but it’s sitting on someone’s bookshelf in Vancouver where it’s likely to, unfortunately, remain unread. The Irish born and raised author lives…