Recent content by anchomal

You mean short of lacing the food with laxative? You're at university, time to teach someone a lesson, I'd say!

waalkwriter mentioned in one of his posts recently that he felt the Nobel treated England particularly badly, overlooking a lot of fine writers. But England still boasts several winners. I can think, off hand, of no other country that has been as badly treated and as unfairly overlooked as...

I picked up a book in the library the other day, Yekl, a short novel written in the late 1800s, by Abraham Cahan. Haven't gotten around to reading it yet but I hope to get to it this weekend. Cahan definitely wrote in Yiddish, but I'm not sure if this particular book was originally written in...

May absolute hands-down favourite Canadian writer is Alistair MacLeod. He might not have written very much but what he has done is nothing short of exquisite. His short stories in particular are stunning, so atmospheric and so carefully rendered.