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July 28, 2016An Avid Reader Comments

This Marlowe — A Mystery by a Master Storyteller

There are authors and books that make a powerful first impression. When that feeling is sustained through subsequent encounters in person and with their writing, then I know I’m in the presence of someone with a gift. Michelle Butler Hallett is such an author. I met Michelle in the early 2000’s at the Humber School…

April 22, 2014Musings

Remembering Alistair MacLeod

I met Alistair MacLeod during the cocktail reception for Humber College’s week long Creative Writing Workshop. The year was 2003. Alistair had corralled his seminar students to meet them and to establish the reading plan for the first two days Up until that evening, I believed that I was in Alistair MacLeod’s group because…