The Glass Harmonica is set in Newfoundland, but it is not necessarily a Newfoundland book. Russell Wangersky focuses on one street in St. John’s, rather than taking on the whole East Coast cosmology. A narrow focus, but The Glass Harmonica is a wonderful work, a large work, lyrical at times (children “can feel the currents in a room the way eagles find…
Mark Anthony Jarman
Mark Anthony Jarman plays harmonica for a blues band in Fredericton where he teaches at the University of New Brunswick. His most recent book is My While Planet (Thomas Allen, 2008).
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Great Disappointments
Ten LRC contributors warn of “classic” books with over-sized reputations December 2007
Gore Vidal once described Moby Dick as “a very bad masterpiece,” and most readers will understand exactly what he meant. Notwithstanding the book’s mythic grandeur, that huge chapter on “the whiteness of the whale,” for instance, has to be one of the most indigestible bits of fiction ever written.
It was in the same spirit as Vidal’s observation that the LRC editorial staff planned this December’s holiday…
The Yank’s Progress
A vibrant tale follows the journey of a U.S. artist from New York to Newfoundland December 2004
Michael Winter has signed, sealed and delivered a new book that reminds me a smidgen of Coming Through Slaughter. They are very different creatures, but they share some attributes in that Michael Ondaatje’s classic, about Buddy Bolden the New Orleans cornet player, is also about Michael Ondaatje. Very little is known about Bolden, he is a tabula rasa…