{"id":9963,"date":"2013-01-02T07:42:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T07:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/?p=6845"},"modified":"2013-01-02T07:42:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T07:42:06","slug":"edmonton-journal-malarky-selected-for-five-favourite-reads-of-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2013\/01\/02\/edmonton-journal-malarky-selected-for-five-favourite-reads-of-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Journal: Malarky selected for Five Favourite Reads of 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

How lovely indeed to see Malarky selected as one of Five Favourite Reads of 2012 by the Edmonton Journal Book Columnist Michael Hingston alongside Cesar Aira’s Varamo \/ The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira (New Directions) and Leanne Shapton’s Swimming Studies.<\/p>\n

I recently alighted on Aira’s work and have delighted in him. I appeared on a panel with Leanne Shapton at IFOA and admire the interdisciplinary approach in her work. Swimming Studies took me back to the swimming pool. Sadly disasters abounded upon my return so I shall stick to vicarious swimming through reading that memoir and keep my feet dry until I can afford some serious swimming instruction. (Again! I must have taken the most swimming lessons in history and made so little progress I’d have to wonder if there’s in a swimming gene I lack). I also really hope that 2013 or even 2014 will result in a reading in Edmonton. Never has a writer been keener than I to visit the home of the former Toonerville Trolley. (Not even sure many writers even know of the one time existence of this historical transport system) I have studied the weather in Edmonton and now own a parka for this impending visit.<\/p>\n

Here’s some snips from the article (full piece click here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

2. Anakana Schofield, Malarky (Biblioasis) “an obsessive, voice-driven novel about a grieving Irish housewife that runs along irregular timelines and lingers at unusual places. It also never, ever apologizes for itself. More importantly, it all works….”<\/b><\/p>\n

3. Leanne Shapton, Swimming Studies (Blue Rider Press)<\/b><\/p>\n

“Midway through this gorgeous, buoyant hybrid of a memoir, Shapton inserts a 26-part photo series documenting, with captions, every swimsuit she owns…”
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5. C\u00e9sar Aira, Varamo \/ The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira (New Directions)<\/b><\/p>\n

“…Aira\u2019s fiction is an ongoing, off-the-cuff record of his magpie imagination…Read Aira in the morning and you won\u2019t need coffee.”<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How lovely indeed to see Malarky selected as one of Five Favourite Reads of 2012 by the Edmonton Journal Book Columnist Michael Hingston alongside Cesar Aira’s Varamo \/ The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira (New Directions) and Leanne Shapton’s Swimming Studies. I recently alighted on Aira’s work and have delighted in him. I appeared on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[235,421,477,748],"class_list":["post-9963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-best-books-of-2012","tag-edmonton-journal","tag-five-favourite-reads-of-2012","tag-malarky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}