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New York state of mind
The Toronto Star checks in on McNally Robinson New York, and finds that manager Sarah McNally is displaying such books as Annabel Lyon’s The Best Thing for You and Richard B. Wright’s Clara Callan, and even has Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje lined up for an appearance. (They’ll be promoting the Persea Books anthology Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets.) “I was inspired by what my mother did,” McNally tells the Star‘s Judy Stoffman. “She has done so much for prairie literature (by selling the local authors). She’s a powerful woman, the most organized person I know.”
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Responsible fiction
Annabel Lyon, author of the short-story collection Oxygen and the new three-novella collection The Best Thing for You, ponders the relationship between literature and ethics in a recent column for Geist magazine. On one side of the debate is academic Martha Nussbaum, who extracts the “ethical juices” from a variety of classical and more recent texts, and on the other is former U.S. judge Richard Posner, who argues that literature has no ethical relevance whatsoever. Annabel Lyon herself is somewhere in the middle. This is her last word: “We take a risk when we close our eyes to the ‘lessons’ of great literature. We risk, at our peril, forgetting what tragedy is.”
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