AmLit and CanLit
In honor of Independence Day, here are ten randomly selected novels or short story collections that, in my view, qualify as Great American Novels: 1) The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen 2) The Bonfire...
View ArticleMore stories from interviews–and lessons for trial lawyers
Monday’s Read This! post urged everyone to read The Paris Review Interviews with writers, all of which the literary journal has generously made available on its website. (Much as I love being able to...
View ArticleListen To This: A Zimbabwean Doctor in Newfoundland
This blog is about storytelling. Mondays I’ve been posting with a Read This! theme, recommending stories that I’ve enjoyed so much that I want everyone in the world to read them. Stories come in more...
View ArticleGetting rid of books?
Lawyers create and receive so much paper that lots of us have serious paper clutter, organization, and retention problems–so much that bar associations and other CLE providers give seminars on how to...
View ArticleKate Sutherland on Adrienne Rich
Such a pleasure to hear the CBC’s Michael Enright interviewing law professor Kate Sutherland–one of my absolute favorites on Twitter–on the work of feminist poet and essayist Adrienne Rich, who...
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