Blogs about: Carrie Snyder

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Having Fun during the Zombie Apocalypse4 comments

gilbertspeaks wrote 1 month ago: In an earlier article, I interviewed Carrie Snyder about this upcoming event, but on Sunday, April 7 … more →

Tags: zombies, marie gilbert, Rick Grimes, City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, The Zombie Run-Philadelphia, Dave Feinman, Andrew Hudis, Active Heroes

Words worth hearing from Mandy Brouse4 comments

Red leather booth wrote 3 months ago: “Books contain the answer to the question ‘What makes us human?’” says the oft-philosophical co-owne … more →

Tags: waterloo region, writing, Community, Uptown Waterloo, Books, literary culture, community, Canadian fiction, one book

My Top 12 Books of 2012 (published this year)3 comments

Lindsay wrote 5 months ago: I’m not usually a fan of end of year lists as much as people seem to make them, especially sin … more →

Tags: Books, Adam Marek, Alix Ohlin, best books of the year, Book Reviews, Daniel O'Malley, Dare me!, Inside, Instruction Manual for Swallowing

The Juliet Stories by Carrie Snyder2 comments

Naomi wrote 6 months ago: The Juliet Stories, Carrie Snyder House of Anansi Press, 324 pages ISBN 9781770890022 When Juliet Fr … more →

Tags: Older reviews, Coming of Age, loyalty, Love and Loss, Book Review, Freedom, the juliet stories, 1980s, Nicaragua

The Next Big Thing1 comment

rideout wrote 6 months ago: The lovely Ayelet Tsabari, author of the upcoming collection of stories The Best Place on Earth, tag … more →

Tags: Above All Things, Aga Maksimowska, Arguments with the Lake, Ayelet Tsabari, Catherine McKenzie, Jael Richardson, laurie graham, Marilyn Bell, Poetry

Standing on One Foot2 comments

lbaudot wrote 6 months ago: Are you a woman, or a mouse? (Annie Dillard The Writing Life)   When to practice karate? This i … more →

Tags: Children, Kárate, Motherhood, Practice, sensei, writing, Annie Dillard, mothering

Book Review: Dear Life, by Alice Munro

Special to National Post wrote 7 months ago: Dear Life By Alice Munro McClelland & Stewart/Douglas Gibson Books 319 pp; $32.99 These stories … more →

Tags: Afterword, Ampersand, Book Reviews, Dear Life, Alice Munro

The Juliet Stories is shortlisted for Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction

metriks wrote 7 months ago: Carrie Snyder, my wife, has received great news! The Juliet Stories is one of five books shortlisted … more →

Tags: the juliet stories, Governor General, Literary Award

savoury sentences from several sources, #1

carin wrote 7 months ago: “The boy was said to be a cousin of Kathleen Burnham and was up from New Hampshire, working at … more →

Tags: bookshelves, Sentences, the new quarterly, Anne Enright, McClelland & Stewart, elyse gasco, James W. Loewen, Lisa Martin-Demoor, Elizabeth Strout

Thin Air Writer's Festival- 2012 1 comment

maryloudriedger wrote 7 months ago: I hadn’t read their books, but now I want to!  David Bergen, Richard Ford, Mike Grandmaison, S … more →

Tags: Literature, the forks, annual events, winnipeg thin air festival, juliiet stories, david bergen, the age of hope, Richard Ford, "canada" by richard ford

The Scotiabank Giller longlist: fine, but Malarky is missing

Ian McGillis wrote 8 months ago: There’s a language people use when they’re talking about literary prize lists, and the key to parsin … more →

Tags: narratives, Alix Ohlin, American Psycho, Anakana Schofield, and Media, Arts, Books and Literature, Bret Easton Ellis, Cary Fagan

First reviews of The Blondes

emilyschultz wrote 9 months ago: I’m on the road this week but here are some quick links to the first reviews of The Blondes. C … more →

Tags: the blondes, The Globe and Mail, NOW magazine, Kerrie Clare

But what are you really reading?

Mark Medley wrote 10 months ago: George Pelecanos was asked once about summer reading, and he said, more or less, “I’m not playing th … more →

Tags: Afterword, esi edugyan, kevin chong, leanne shapton, Linwood Barclay, pasha malla, sheila heti, susan swan, Terry Fallis

Heidi's Spring Picks2 comments

nvcllibrarian wrote 12 months ago: Happy Spring! In the spirit of porches with Adirondack Chairs, grassy park knolls, and the first few … more →

Tags: New Books, Spring Picks, The Lifeboat, Charlotte Rogan, billy lynn's long halftime walk, Ben Fountain, I Am Forbidden, Anouk Markovits, an unexpected guest

"The Juliet Stories" - book review4 comments

feistyredhair wrote 12 months ago: Sometimes, when I read books, I catch glimpses of myself.  It’s as if someone has been spying … more →

Tags: Books, Reviews, Fiction, Books 2, writing, Reading, the juliet stories, Nicaragua, Novel

Guest post: Carrie Snyder on the many stages of reading11 comments

kristendenhartog wrote 1 year ago: Part 7 (wow!) of a growing series on Blog of Green Gables, When Writers Read Kids’ Books. I’m … more →

Tags: Family Life, Reading aloud, when writers read kids' books

"No, surely this isn't that trouble maker!"

darcie friesen hossack wrote 1 year ago: Carrie Snyder’s prose is quietly gasp-worthy in this reading, while lecturer Paul Tiessen, mak … more →

Tags: mennonites writing, Miriam Toews, Rudy Wiebe, Paul Tiessen, Irma Voth, a complicated kindness, Peace Shall Destroy Many, juliet stories

Book Review: The Juliet Stories, by Carrie Snyder

Special to National Post wrote 1 year ago: The Juliet Stories By Carrie Snyder House of Anansi 324 pp; $22.95 Reviewed by Robert Sternberg Carr … more →

Tags: Afterword, Book Reviews, Fiction, the juliet stories

Mennonites Writing, the series wraps up

darcie friesen hossack wrote 1 year ago:   2012 Mennonite Literature Lecture Featuring Author Darcie Friesen Hossack “Writing Towards Ho … more →

Tags: Media Room, mennonites on tour, mennonites writing, Darcie Friesen Hossack, Mennonites Don't Dance, Miriam Toews, Mennonite literature, Paul Tiessen


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