Decidedly disinterested in Oscar buzz (“I feel like life is the prize,” Alice Walker once said), the author told me that she hopes the film prompts viewers to embrace “The Gospel According to Shug.”
BY Evelyn C White
In his early review of the epistolary novel that would later win the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in fiction, a New York book critic declared The Color Purple a work of…
Is a seal a fish?
We’ve often heard that none less than the Pope, or a pope, or the Bishop, or a bishop, decreed that seals were fish – not meat – opening a food…
Each story came from a grain of sand in my imagination: Rosalind GIll releases second collection of short fiction
Can you tell us a little about yourself? I’ve been fascinated by language all my life. I grew up in St John’s, attended Bishop Spencer College and did my BA…
Allison Graves: “I live in St John’s where there’s brilliant writers everywhere who seem to write and publish often”
Can you tell us a little about yourself? I’m a PhD student at Memorial where I’m working on a thesis in contemporary Irish literature. I live downtown St John’s and…
The line between fiction and biography is much blurrier, and I am much less interested in that line: part two of our conversation with Eva Crocker and Lisa Moore
Is there a difference between, or even a line between, fiction and biography? LM. It’s a really good question and five years ago, ten years ago, I would have said…
“To give attention to something you really have to be kind of egoless”: a conversation with Lisa Moore and Eva Crocker
“Attention is love, what we must give children, mothers, fathers, pets, our friends, the news, the woes of others. What we want to change we curse and then pick up…