I’m 95% sure it wasn’t a publicity stunt, but I’m using the opportunity to plug these two one more time.
Especially since Wangersky’s The Glass Harmonica just won the Winterset Award for Excellence in Newfoundland writing, and Leslie just released her first collection of poems, Gulf.
Two time winner of the E.J Pratt Poetry prize, Patrick Warner endorsed Gulf, calling Leslie “a poet fully in charge of her craft.” She’s also the author of a damn good collection of shorts, called Scrabble Lessons, if poetry’s not your thing. The Globe and Mail called it perfect, after saying, “It all works and leaves an uneasy smile.” She’s anthologized and won a pile of awards, and is also an editor at Riddle Fence. Read her. Trust me on it.
Russell is also multifaceted, multi-award-winning writer. Big time. Short fiction, novels, journalism, non-fiction, and it all turns to gold and gets trophies. Rightfully so. His sentence-level writing is crystalline and inspiring,as I’m sure half the people reading this know. The man just about made me cry the last time I saw him read from Burning Down the House — I had the scratchy throat thing going — and I’m not one to cry, beacon of manliness I am.
Congrats, Leslie, Russell.
Add these to your summer reading; at least one from each author:
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