Early in The Memory Artists by Jeffrey Moore, a waitress asks the multi-talented, darkly bitter Norval Blaquière for any advice he might give an aspiring writer. Norval, whose first and only novel was an instant international hit, tells her, “Don’t recount your dreams, don’t puke up your diary, don’t write anything before age thirty.” When the waitress reminds him that he wrote his famous book in his…
Alan Cumyn
Alan Cumyn is the award-winning author of six novels for adults, including The Sojourn, Losing It and Burridge Unbound, and two novels for children, The Secret Life of Owen Skye and After Sylvia.