Posts By: GKZachary

Dark Family Secret Leads to Tragedy in Novelist Arnold Logan’s Springtime in Lawrence Park

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Marie Barnacle should have had the perfect life. Born into wealth and prestige, she grew up in posh Lawrence Park, with its winding roads, stone mansions, and old money. But Marie’s charmed life is haunted by a dark family secret. “…at once intellectual, literate, weirdly funny, and unsettling.… Logan sketches the raw underbelly of Toronto’s… Read more »

Top Scholar Discusses Crisis in Academia in Office Hours: One Academic Life

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In his view, the government has increasingly forsaken its obligation to students, while universities have metamorphosed into unaffordable and irresponsible institutions predicated on the undercompensated work of adjuncts…His fluid prose varies to fit the subject at hand…the author’s voice is so cozy and sincere that the reader happily follows him through his recollections, wherever they… Read more »

OFFICE HOURS: One Academic Life By H.N. Hirsch, PhD Explores the Crisis in Higher Education

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OFFICE HOURS: One Academic Life By H.N. Hirsch, PhD In his view, the government has increasingly forsaken its obligation to students, while universities have metamorphosed into unaffordable and irresponsible institutions predicated on the undercompensated work of adjuncts…His fluid prose varies to fit the subject at hand…the author’s voice is so cozy and sincere that the… Read more »

Up-and-Coming Author Mathieu Cailler to Appear at Beyond Baroque

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Award-winning author Mathieu Cailler will read from his works at Beyond Baroque in Venice, California on May 28th, 2016. His most recent book is LOSS ANGELES, a collection of short stories that are by turns fragile, tender, and always memorable as they explore the beauty of quotidian existence. Cailler’s stories are rife with plot, introspection,… Read more »