Five Books Worth Leaving Behind the Sunscreen for During the Winter Break
Getting Lit with Linda - The Canadian Literature Podcast
English - March 15, 2023 18:26 - 16 minutes - 14.1 MBBooks Arts literature canadian writing books authors canadian writers literary technique indigenous indigenous authors canadian literature Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Linda doesn't care if she has to take less sunscreen when she goes on vacation - if it means she gets to pack an extra couple of books. What five books would she recommend?:
Linda also references Mordecai Richler (at 3.43 and 13.20) and Alice Munro (4.36), the production of MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, and MacDonald's term as the inaugural Mordecai Richler writer in residence at Concordia University. Check out MacDonald's "Dispatches" from the latter period, which are downright funny, offering welcome critique of Richler's masculinist tendencies.
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