Art / Life: Scribblings by Michael Bryson
Michael BrysonWriting That Goes Everywhere, Man
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Julian Barnes
As I was contemplating writing this piece, the thought crossed my mind that Julian Barnes (b. 1946) represents, for me, apparently, a perfect sort of Britishness. What is perfect Britishness? It might be that mid-England BBC accent, a perso...
Book Reviews
My reading list in 2026 has remained random, if slightly tilted towards recent and older so-called classics as I continue to catch up with books I’ve long thought I should get to that sometime. On that list was Miriam Toews’s A Complicated...
Almost Cut My Hair (2026)
The title is a little ridiculous because in 2026 I have almost no hair. But there’s a lyric from that David Crosby song, which appears on the 1970 Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young album Déjà Vu, that has been ringing in my head for weeks, pos...
Miriam Toews
This month I listened to the audio books of A Complicated Kindness (2004) and A Truce That Is Not Peace (2025), both read by the author, Miriam Toews.
The first is a novel, and the second is a memoir, but there is so much continuity betwe...
Book Reviews
Going to start this by dedicating this post to Terry Green (1947-2025), whom I interviewed 25 years ago for The Danforth Review. Green was the author of The Ashland Trilogy: Shadow of Ashland, A Witness to Life, and St. Patrick’s Bed (2017)...
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Book reviewer since the 1990s. Books include Thirteen Shades of Black and White (1999) and The Lizard and Other Stories (2009). Kindle single: "Survival" (2012). Oversaw The Danforth Review (1999-2018). Lives in Scarborough, Ontario.
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