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...
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“The Kent Johnson Dossier: Because of Poetry, I Have a Really Big House,” by Theresa Smalec
Cover image by visual poet Mike Basinski, longtime director (now retired) of the Buffalo Poetry...
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Thank You, Contributors and Readers: Robert Kroetsch 2020 and Please Support the Typescript via Patreon
Original photo and copyright by Dennis Cooley. Retouched by Matthew Friedman Thank you to...
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“Returning the Sound,” by Theresa Smalec
Hornbook #42 […] In one of her letters she tells me, if you are going to appropriate from your own...
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Introduction to Robert Kroetsch 2020 aka “Collective Biography,” by Theresa Smalec
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…
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Quarantine Playlist — Theresa Smalec
[Ed’s note: Since we are all, for the most part, social distancing, self-isolating, and trying not...
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Passing on the Holocaust: “Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.”
David Olère’s drawing of “Crematorium 3” (1945). The Polish-born French-Jewish...
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An Introduction to Fred Wah’s “Tree”
Photo courtesy of Fred Wah. © I met Fred Wah at the University of Calgary around 1992. At the...
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Stronger Together: Defending the “Dirtbag Left”
I recently read “Meet the Anti-Woke Left”, an article published in Spiked online. At...
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