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Speaking, Pausing for Breath, and Gardening by Erin Wunker
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Poems
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The Poetry of Margaret Atwood by John Wilson Foster
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Genre Blur
Giles Blunt (Author)
Breaking Lorca. Random House
William Deverell (Author)
Snow Job. McClelland & Stewart Ltd.
Nora McClintock (Author)
Homicide Related. Red Deer Press
Reviewed by John Moss
Nobody confuses Dashiell Hammet with F. Scott Fitzgerald. One is possibly the best and most influential American crime writer of the twentieth century, remembered now for movies based on his books. The other is the author of a novel taught widely in the North American school system because it is filled with fluently scripted crypto-cultural insights. Reading Hammett today, one is struck that the prose is awkward, the dialogue embarrassing, the drama simplistic. Fitzgerald, however, seems fres [...]
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