The launch of Under the Skin of War, by Chantal Ringuet, takes place this evening at Librairie Le port de tête.
This is award-winning novelist Jennifer Quist's first published translation from Chinese. The text of the story is below, followed by Jenn's comments.
The backstage story of Marianne Ackerman’s hit comedy Triplex Nervosa, from kitchen table to opening night and beyond.
The best stories I have ever read about Montreal are the Linnet Muir stories that appeared in The New Yorker in 1978 and 1979. Set mostly in wartime Montreal, the stories dip back into the more distant past of Linnet Muir’s—and Mavis Gallant’s own—childhood memories of Montreal in the 1920s.
Who would do that in any other city? I thought happily. It seemed promising—but this wasn’t the day I fell in love with the city.
