In
My Parents, Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his parents immigration to Canada of the lives that were upended by the war in Bosnia and siege of Sarajevo and the new lives his parents were forced to build. As ever with his work, he portrays both the perfect, intimate details (his mother s lonely upbringing, his father s fanatical beekeeping) and a sweeping, heartbreaking history of his native country. It is a story full of many Hemons, of course his parents, sister, uncles, cousins and also of German occupying forces, Yugoslav partisans, royalist Serb collaborators, singing Ukrainians, and a few befuddled Canadians.
My Parents is Hemon at his very best, grounded in stories lovingly polished by retelling, but making them exhilarating and fresh in writing, summoning unexpected laughs in the midst of the heartbreaking narratives.
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OFF RADAR: ‘Wildflowers of Maine Islands’ and ‘Maine in Winter’
A great new field guide and a collection of stories from the Maine Metaphor series
By Dana Wilde
“Wildflowers of Maine Islands: The Downeast and Acadia Coasts,” by Glen H. Mittelhauser; University of Maine Press, Orono, Maine, 2021; 392 pages, softcover, $28.
One of the best field guides to wildflowers I’ve used every summer for years is University of Maine Press’s “The Plants of Acadia National Park,” partly because its photos so clearly depict each plant and flower, and partly because its key system is so easy to use. Now UMaine Press has released another guide by one of that book’s authors, Glen Mittelhauser.
College of Liberal Arts 14 Apr, 2021
Camille Dungy has added another honor to her long list of accomplishments.
The University Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at Colorado State University has had a poem published by
The New Yorker magazine.
Dungy, who read one of her poems at the Democratic National Convention last year and another published by the
New York Times Magazine in 2018, won a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship two years ago. She says that as part of the fellowship, she committed to writing poetry every day, a practice that led to “Let Me,” the poem that appears in the April 12 issue of
Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR s
Fresh Air, is The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism at Georgetown University. She is an associate editor of and contributor to
Mystery and Suspense Writers (Scribner) and the winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Criticism, presented by the Mystery Writers of America. In 2019, Corrigan was awarded the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle.
Corrigan served as a juror for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Her book So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came To Be and Why It Endures was published by Little, Brown in September 2014. Corrigan is represented by Trinity Ray at The Tuesday Lecture Agency: trinity@tuesdayagency.com