Where the Light Falls
John DeMontRooted in Nova Scotia, curious about everywhere else--essays, stories and reflections by John DeMont, following the light wherever it falls.
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I'm writing less but enjoying it more
Illustration Belle DeMont
“How come you still write?” someone asked me the other day.
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Last Night at Hum Mow's
Photo courtesy of Albert Lee
A second excerpt from a novel I’ve been pecking away on about a fictional newspaper war in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as World War Two drew to a close. It’s a work in progress, in which I mash together time and thro...
How Frank and Joe Hardy led me to Borges, Modiano and Tartan Noir
Something I saw on Substack the other day caused a pang beneath my breastbone.
I don’t know how many books in The Hardy Boys Series once sat on my shelf, since there was a hell of a lot of them, and it was hard to tell one volume from the...
How I learned to love the murk
It would be wrong to say that I have always been scared of the dark. It is true, though, that I had never embraced it.
Scientists think there’s an evolutionary reason for this, since over the millennia we upright walkers have been conditio...
Last Night at Hum Mows:
During COVID, I started pecking away at a novel, tentatively titled Last Night at Hum Mows, about a not-completely fictitious newspaper war during the city’s wild and transformative WW 2 years.
This week, I took a look at it for the first...
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Former newspaper guy, still writing, just not for newspapers, in Nova Scotia.
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