Hart House Literary and Library
Student Committee
On this episode, Marta, Aïsha, and Meixi discuss Open Water, a 2021 novel by Caleb Azumah Nelson. They focus on the novel’s descriptions of beauty, its humanizing attention to the grain of everyday life, and its defence of joy.
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On this episode, Juliann speaks with two emerging authors about mixed media writing. First, Alice Graham (alias Elizabeth Xeon) speaks on the importance of love in one’s writing and how to find a writing voice. Then, Maynard McKinnon discusses microfiction and zines.
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This year, our Dialogues series focuses on “miracles.” In this conversation, Alex and UofT philosophy PhD candidate Alexandra Gustafson consider the benefits and drawbacks of understanding romantic love as a miracle. Topics of discussion include the relation between love and specificity and the role of literature in the crystallization of love as an affect and event.
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On this end-of-holiday special episode, Marta, Aïsha, and Meixi discuss Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a 2015 novel by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. They focus on the story’s treatment of time travel and its relation to the slice-of-life genre.
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Juliann speaks with Kaitlyn Matthews and Elaine Lee, winners of the Hart House Literary Contest in the prose and poetry categories, respectively, about their prize-winning pieces and contest-writing more broadly.
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Marta, Aïsha, and Meixi discuss Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif,” the story’s deconstruction of racial codes in life and literature, and the challenges of the short story form.
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Juliann speaks with André Babyn, author of Evie of the Deepthorn (2020, Dundurn), and Ali Pinkney, author of a forthcoming novella, about the relationship between writing and memory.
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Alex and Madison introduce our new Dialogues theme, “Event.” They focus on the provisional thesis for the series: namely, that literature, as an artistic form for which the demarcation between the possible and the impossible is constitutively uncertain, intervenes decisively in the social processes that establish certain artistic, ethical, and political events as miracles (that is, as occurrences that exceed their causes).
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In our first Next Generation episode of our third season, Juliann speaks with Robert McGill (UofT English) about his new book, A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life (Coach House, 2022), and the joys and challenges of working as an author and critic.
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In this episode, Marta, Aïsha, and Meixi discuss Weike Wang’s Chemistry (Text, 2018), focusing on the novel’s treatment of the experience of first- and second-generation immigrants, relationships between parents and children, and the search for a vocation.
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