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Don’t take it personal

Dear Agony Editor, For a number of years, I’ve been an avid fan of a certain novelist. Recently, I started following her on social media. She has said some annoying things and I’m having a dificult time reconciling my love of her books and the person behind them. I don’t think I can enjoy her work the same way. I’d like to move past it, but I can’t. I feel like I’m in mourning and I don’t know what to do. Signed, Twitter Torn

Dear Torn, You know what they say about heroes. Stand too close to one and you’ll only see their blackheads. Okay, I don’t think anyone has actually ever said that before, but you get my drift.

I think many readers like to imagine what their favourite author’s life is like. Maybe they picture the writer wearing a turtleneck, banging away on a keyboard, an ice cube crackling in a glass of Scotch.

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Quill & Quire
September 2019
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Quill and Quire
Connecting the thoughts
SHARON BUDNARCHUK, the retiring co-owner of Audreys
FRONTMATTER
Canon busting
In her third book of poetry, Sonnet L’Abbé takes on the audacious challenge of overwriting the work of William Shakespeare
Community rules
Edmonton’s Audreys Books and the city’s newest indie, Glass Bookshop, share a passion for serving local readers
Living legends
Inhabit Media’s Louise Flaherty returns to the press she co-founded as the company races to record the oral stories of Inuit elders
Higher purpose
Canada’s newest academic publisher, Concordia University Press, prepares to release its first titles
Life drawing
A much-overdue retrospective of Canadian indie comics reveals a deep interest in personal storytelling
FEATURES
Home country
How a kitchen renovation became a magic portal into Candace Savage’s discovery of a little-known, shameful period in Canadian history
As seen on TV
Novelists Lynn Coady, Elan Mastai, and Susin Nielsen on what it’s like to move between writing for the screen and the page
REVIEWS
Knife play
Adnan Khan’s debut novel presents a Muslim character who is more than a collection of stereotypes
Family matters
Lynn Coady’s latest novel is a showcase for her smooth writing and expertise at rendering characters
A Canadian horror story
Joanna Jolly’s book about Tina Fontaine hews to the conventions of true crime but seems unaware of its own blind spots
Be specific
Chris Banks’s latest is a complete system, while Jana Prikryl’s second collection gets lost in abstractions
BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
They got the beat
Matthew Forsythe channels Arnold Lobel and Jon Klassen in his joyous ode to collective music-making
Gone birding
From non-iction lessons about light to tender stories about intergenerational birdwatching, ornithology is big this fall BY SHANNON OZIRNY
The bloodthirsty librarian
Arthur Slade’s new series – featuring a vampire with a bookish day job – is relentlessly thrilling
Playing through the pain
Eric Walters and Kathy Kacer’s new novel is about the Holocaust, 9/11, and a middle-school musical theatre production
Weaving of time
A new book goes deep into the stories behind The Witness Blanket, Carey Newman’s monument to residential-school survivors