Theresa Smalec’s Best of 2020: Pop Edition
More than one person has remarked that I have the musical tastes of a teeny bopper. I grew up...
Read MorePosted by Theresa Smalec | Jan 4, 2021 | Best of 2020, Music, Reviews
More than one person has remarked that I have the musical tastes of a teeny bopper. I grew up...
Read MorePosted by Theresa Smalec | Nov 16, 2020 | Arts and Literature, Kent Johnson Dossier, Poetry
Cover image by visual poet Mike Basinski, longtime director (now retired) of the Buffalo Poetry...
Read MorePosted by Theresa Smalec | Jul 30, 2020 | Arts and Literature, Robert Kroetsch 2020
Original photo and copyright by Dennis Cooley. Retouched by Matthew Friedman Thank you to...
Read MorePosted by Theresa Smalec | Jul 16, 2020 | Arts and Literature, Poetry, Robert Kroetsch 2020
Hornbook #42 […] In one of her letters she tells me, if you are going to appropriate from your own...
Read MorePosted by Theresa Smalec | Jun 30, 2020 | Arts and Literature, Robert Kroetsch 2020
I first met Robert Kroetsch as part of a fiction writers’ road trip through central Alberta in April 1992. Professors Aritha van Herk and Fred Wah were along for that trip through the coulees, the hoodoos, the banks of the Battle River, the endless stretches of prairie…
Read MorePosted by Theresa Smalec | Apr 26, 2020 | Essays, Quarantine Playlist
[Ed’s note: Since we are all, for the most part, social distancing, self-isolating, and trying not...
Read MorePosted by Theresa Smalec | Jan 27, 2020 | Essays
David Olère’s drawing of “Crematorium 3” (1945). The Polish-born French-Jewish...
Read MorePosted by Theresa Smalec | Aug 21, 2019 | Arts and Literature
Photo courtesy of Fred Wah. © I met Fred Wah at the University of Calgary around 1992. At the...
Read MorePosted by Theresa Smalec | Jul 25, 2019 | Commentary, Politics
I recently read “Meet the Anti-Woke Left”, an article published in Spiked online. At...
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