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The World in
Perpetual Motion
Stephen Emerson
On Lucia Berlin
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Lucia Berlin was
as close a friend as I've ever had. She was also one of the most signal
writers I've ever encountered.
The latter fact is what I want to write about here. Her extraordinary life
- its color, its afflictions, and the heroism she showed especially in the
fight against a brutal drinking habit - is evoked in the biographical note
at the back of A
Manual for Cleaning Women.
Read on...
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Grounded in Memory
Jane Urquhart
On Writing
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I first visited
Gander Airport, Newfoundland in the autumn of 1992, after a hair-raising
flight from St John's where I was Memorial University's first
"come-from-away" writer-in-residence. I had no idea at the time
that the journey would form the basis for the beginning of a novel called The
Night Stages that would be published 25 years later, or
that such a large number of images from the day would be so permanently
implanted in my visual memory.
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