Annie Ernaux meets Annie Dillard in this sultry story of a woman’s obsession with a painter — and a river. A woman is on an artists’ retreat on an island in the St. Lawrence Seaway, taking time away from her partner and her daughter to write.
How artists make a living and how money changes art. It may not be the worst time in history to get paid to make art, but it certainly is the strangest.
A bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic.
Eric Schmaltz’s *I Confess* delves into the complexities of truth-telling in poetry, and the history of technologies designed to produce truth from willing and unwilling subjects, considering what it means to use a device – poetry or polygraph – to draw out one’s most profound feelings and emotions.
