Tim Parks’s Italy Part I, by Linda Leith
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo, by Tim Parks (Norton 2014)

Sivan Slapak converses with Lisa Newman about her debut book Here is Still Here on The Yiddish Book Center's podcast, The Shmooze. Listen here
Sivan Slapak
May 2024
$22.95 | ISBN: 9781773901466
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Sivan Slapak lived in Jerusalem for twenty years before returning to Canada in 2013. Since then, her short fiction and essays have been published by The New Quarterly, Montreal Serai, and carte blanche and in collections published by Véhicule Press and Guernica Editions. She was selected as a finalist for the CBC Quebec Writing Competition, won the Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award once and was shortlisted twice. She lives in Montreal, where she works in the arts and culture sector. Here Is Still Here is her first book.
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Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo, by Tim Parks (Norton 2014)

A Long Journey to Mercy: Joy Kogawa’s Gently to Nagasaki by Irene Sywenky, was originally published in Confluences 2: Essays on the New Canadian Literature. It appears on Salon .ll. by kind permission of Mawenzi House. Joy Kogawa's most recent work, Gently to Nagasaki (2016), is a memoir that connects with many of the themes she has developed in her earlier books on Japanese-Canadians.
"I am a guy who is Vietnamese, living in France, making a Japanese movie. But Vietnamese culture is really deep inside me. Let’s say I enjoy watching Vietnamese women more than others. It’s something like that. I feel that I am a different man when I am in Vietnam compared with France. I feel that I’m not living my life fully in France, I feel as though my life is in suspension. It is not something I dislike, that’s just how it is."
Today it is possible to walk in the bookstore and ask for a book to be printed and bound as you wait. The machine is also a powerful tool for authors to create and sell books.
