Gertrude Stein’s salon at 27 rue de Fleurus in the 6th arrondissement of Paris is the stuff of literary legend. A place that once entertained and fostered the likes of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse, but also where Stein herself forged her literary legacy with her partner Alice […]
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Garth Risk Hallberg, author of the bestselling City of Fire, has edited The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant, a new collection by one of Canada’s great writers. Gallant wrote over 100 short stories, many published in the New Yorker, her craft honed through her work as a journalist living in Montreal, New York and Paris. […]
Hard-boiled or cool-headed? World-weary or quietly relentless? Why do these archetypes of the classic detective still shape contemporary crime fiction? In this compelling conversation, two titans of Tartan Noir examine the influence of two iconic figures from the golden age of mystery: Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe and Georges Simenon’s Inspector Maigret. Denise Mina returned to […]
