Literary Awards and the Spurned Writer
Writers love literary awards when they win them, and they hate them when they don’t.
Writers love literary awards when they win them, and they hate them when they don’t.
On the eve of publishing his own new book, A Migrant Heart (LLP 2014), Irish-born Canadian essayist and biographer Denis Sampson rereads John Doyle's memoir A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the Television Age (Doubleday, 2005).
This is when book promotion becomes an art -- in the hands of artists. Turning Mavis Gallant's play into a movie. 
Dynamic Montrealer Leila Marshy has been part of the scene for many years, but now she's come out with her first novel, The Philistine (LLP 2018), and everyone's sitting up and taking notice.
