Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl The Cowboy
A dash of caprice against a backdrop of horror.
A dash of caprice against a backdrop of horror.
It’s quite literally been a plague year, but these books have kept my spirits bouyant. I’ve been both engaged and educated.
For decades, Hamilton was characterized as a lunch-bucket town, or worse yet as the arm-pit of the Niagara Escarpment. These days nothing could be further from the truth: Hamilton has become a hotbed of literary activity thanks to gritLIT, LitLive, and independent bookstores. gritLIT, Hamilton’s Readers and Writers’ Festival which started in 2004, has blossomed into an event…