Grief, Memory, Three O'Clock in the Morning
FOM and FOG
Happy to report that Montreal Standard Time, the selection of Mavis Gallant’s early journalism published a few months back by Vehicule Press got a nice mention in the Times Literary Supplement as part of an omnibus review of recent titles. I haven’t yet seen the new anthology of uncollected stories from the New York Review of Books, and look forward to getting a copy. I’ve linked to the TLS piece, but it’s paywalled, at least for the time being. Here are the relevant lines!
While I have your attention, some Friends Of Mavis (FOMs) are also Friends Of the Gleaner (FOGs), and I apologize if you’re getting this link twice. I publish two newsletters on Substack - the Bankhead Gleaner appears more regularly - and I wrote about St. John Neumann, whose feast day it is as today, January 5. Insomuch as many Catholic schools were founded at the behest of this 19th-century Czech-American bishop (then saint); and insomuch as he is invoked for aid by children and immigrants; and insomuch as children and immigrants inhabit so much of the writing of the patron saint of this newsletter, Mavis Gallant; and inasmuch as she was the beneficiary (she’d probably disagree), here and there, of a Catholic education, I thought it would be germane to send these ramblings along to those of you who might not subscribe to the Bankhead Gleaner. If you want to do so, just click on the subscribe link. You can be both a FOM and a FOG. Cheers, and happy feast day of St. John Neumann.
Toronto Public Libray has an electronic version of the TLS. Other public libraries probably do as well.