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Steven Price Author

Arts

B.C. Author’s Ode to Italian Masterpiece Nominated for Giller Prize

How Steven Price connected so deeply with a Sicilian novel far removed from his own life, and gave it a new life of its own.

Image by Bobby Lang

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Susan Orlean

Fire Starter.

Author Susan Orlean discusses her latest work “The Library Book”, a Los Angeles story centred around a devastating 1986 fire that ravaged the city’s Central Library.

david sedaris

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David Sedaris

It’s kind of a funny story.

He is a documenter of real life as it happens, able to mine his own experiences for pockets of relatability, humanity, and hilarity—and sometimes absurdity.

Arts

David Yaffe on Joni Mitchell

Portrait of a “Reckless Daughter.”

Yaffe’s insightful, articulate, simply splendid biography of Mitchell is a must-read.

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Arthur Flowers

New eyes.

He is overwhelmingly positive, but road-weary too; artistic, but not afraid to grind it out when the work seems slow or stalled.